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Safeguarding & Welfare Officer

The Castle School, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5AU

This job expired on 5 June 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  tbc

• Closing date

  5 June 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 May 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, part time: 37 hours per week Term time plus INSET days (39 weeks per year)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Actual starting salary £22,927

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are incredibly proud of our Trust and the schools within it. Strong partnerships, collaboration and generosity are the bonds which underpin our collective mission to provide great education for all children no matter what their starting point or their background.

The Castle School is seeking to appoint a resilient and dedicated Safeguarding and Welfare Officer from September 2024.

This is an exciting opportunity to provide comprehensive and inclusive welfare support for students. The successful applicant will work closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead, Pastoral team, families, and external agencies, playing a crucial role in ensuring the safeguarding and wellbeing of our students.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you: An opportunity to work in an experienced and supportive team from whom you can learn, develop and grow. A friendly, busy and dynamic workplace where each day is different from the last. A competitive salary. Wider opportunities to be involved across our Trust. An energised and professional working environment.

Commitment to safeguarding

Blackdown Education Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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About The Castle School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1204 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Castle School website
• Email address: office@castle.bep.ac
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-castle-school-ta1-5au

The Blackdown Education Partnership is a multi-academy trust (MAT) working across Devon and Somerset. It was born of a merger between two established MATs: The Castle Partnership Trust and Uffculme Academy Trust and currently looks after a family of 12 schools: 6 primary and 6 secondary and 4 nurseries.

Blackdown Education Partnership is, therefore, a single organisation established to deliver the education and to safeguard the wellbeing of every child in our Trust. The Trust seeks to ensure that high quality collaboration and system leadership continue to improve the education in our schools. We are responsible for the good governance of the schools within our Trust and are accountable for the performance of each school. We work with an exceptional team of leaders, teachers and support staff whose combined efforts deliver on our promise to believe in every child.

We can offer you: An opportunity to work in an experienced and supportive team from whom you can learn, develop and grow. A friendly, busy and dynamic workplace where each day is different from the last. A competitive salary. Wider opportunities to be involved across our Trust. An energised and professional working environment.

Arranging a visit to The Castle School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@castle.bep.ac.

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