Senior Attendance and Safeguarding Lead (River Tees Hospital School)
River Tees Hospital School, Middlesbrough, TS3 7EA3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday Full Time Term Time Only
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- NJC 29-32 (£34,927 - £37,535)
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Senior Attendance and Safeguarding Lead will lead and manage the school’s attendance and safeguarding strategies across all sites within River Tees Hospital School, ensuring that all pupils receive the necessary support to attend school regularly and feel safe and secure. This role involves working collaboratively with staff, parents, and external agencies to promote positive attendance, safeguard pupils, and enhance their overall wellbeing.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Leadership of Attendance and Safeguarding
- Develop and implement a comprehensive attendance strategy across all sites, aligned with the school’s ethos and objectives.
- Monitor and analyse attendance data across all sites, identifying trends and implementing targeted interventions for pupils with attendance issues.
- Collaborate with site leaders to ensure consistent application of attendance policies and practises.
- Act as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) across all sites, ensuring compliance with statutory safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Provide leadership and guidance on safeguarding issues, ensuring all staff are trained and aware of their responsibilities.
- Manage referrals to external agencies and liaise with social services, law enforcement, and other relevant bodies on safeguarding matters.
- Record and report all attendance and safeguarding data analysis to Attendance and Safeguarding Committee. Line Management Responsibilities
- Provide guidance and support to staff members involved in attendance and safeguarding, ensuring they understand their roles and responsibilities.
- Conduct regular performance reviews for team members, providing feedback and identifying professional development opportunities. • Organise training sessions for staff on safeguarding practises, attendance strategies, and effective communication with families.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, respect, and inclusivity within the team, ensuring that all staff feel valued and supported in their roles. • Coordinate and manage transport services for pupils, ensuring safe and timely travel to and from school.
- Ensure all transport arrangements comply with health and safety regulations, including risk assessments for transport-related activities.
- Oversee the work of the community team, ensuring that they are effectively supporting pupils' attendance and safeguarding needs.
- Foster collaboration between the community team and other school staff to ensure a holistic approach to pupil support.
- Collaborate with teaching staff and support teams to create and manage part-time timetables for pupils who require flexible learning arrangements due to health or personal circumstances.
- Regularly review attendance data for pupils on part-time timetables to ensure they are engaging with their learning and receiving appropriate support.• Be responsive to the changing needs of pupils, adjusting part-time timetables to better support their educational journey. Collaboration and Communication
- Foster strong relationships with pupils, parents, and external agencies to support attendance and safeguarding initiatives. • Lead multi-agency meetings and strategy discussions related to safeguarding and attendance concerns, ensuring a coordinated approach. • Act as the primary point of contact for parents/carers regarding attendance and safeguarding issues.
- Work closely with school, medical professionals, hospital staff, social workers, and local authorities to ensure the holistic care and support of students.
- Coordinate with school staff to provide a safe and consistent educational experience for children during their hospital stay.
- Engage with external services (such as social services and education welfare officers) to address issues related to student welfare and safeguarding.
- Provide regular updates to the Headteacher on attendance and safeguarding matters. Policy Development and Compliance
- Review and ensure attendance and safeguarding policies are accessible on the school’s website and adhered to reflect best practises.
- Ensure that policies are communicated effectively to staff, pupils, and parents, and that they are implemented consistently.
- Maintain confidential and accurate records in accordance with GDPR and safeguarding requirements.
- Conduct audits of attendance and safeguarding processes to ensure compliance and identify areas for improvement. Training and Development
- Provide training and support to staff across all sites on attendance and safeguarding issues, promoting a culture of awareness and vigilance.
- Conduct workshops and information sessions for parents/carers on the importance of attendance and safeguarding.
The above duties and responsibilities cannot totally encompass or define all tasks which may be
required of the incumbent. The outlined duties and responsibilities may, therefore, vary from time
to time without materially changing either the character or level of responsibility; these factors are
reflected in the post grade. All employees are expected to demonstrate a commitment to the
principles of equal rights both in relation to employment issues and service delivery and to adhere
to the policies of the Council in performance of their duties.
All employees are expected to respect all confidentialities and principles and practice of the Data
Protection Act.
All post holders are required to comply with Health and Safety policies and legislation
What the school offers its staff
The Trust is committed to investing in the training and development of its staff to ensure they possess the necessary skills for their roles. If you identify any gaps in your experience, please mention them in your application and express your readiness to acquire these skills.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About River Tees Hospital School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 18
- School size
- 1 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- River Tees Hospital School website
- Email address
- recuritment@rtmat.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01642 213799
River Tees Hospital School is an integral part of the River Tees Multi-Academy Trust Family, where learning and wellbeing is at the centre of everything that we do. We work with the most vulnerable children, who have a complex range of physical and/or mental health difficulties, helping them to re-set their learning journey to achieve better outcomes and to improve their life chances in the short and longer term. It is recognised that each learner requires a unique setting and bespoke support programme to help them back into either mainstream education or a specialised educational pathway.
River Tees Hospital School creates an inclusive environment where staff strive to ensure all learners make accelerated academic progress whilst equally focusing on their personal development and wellbeing. We provide a range of specialist assessments, which allow us to develop an integrated plan that will work in harmony with the academic and emotional wellbeing strands.
River Tees Hospital School gives every learner the chance to be the best that they can be. This is achieved through the removal of barriers to learning, and the delivery of personalised educational programmes which lead to valuable and valid qualifications.
River Tees Hospital School is dedicated to providing high quality education through an innovative structure, so that vulnerable students have access to advanced and energising programmes of learning. We value the professional relationships between staff and learners, but equally ensure strong collaborative partnership work with parents, carers, trustees, external providers and the wider community, to ensure learners achieve their potential.
All learners are supported to develop lively and enquiring minds, whilst ensuring that they feel safe and valued in an inclusive environment. The ethos of inclusion is central to all of the work of our Trust and we strive to help our young people to achieve their aims and ambitions.
Adam Burns
Head of Hospital School
Arranging a visit to River Tees Hospital School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recuritment@rtmat.org.uk.
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