Senior Safeguarding Officer
Parkside School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD13 5AD19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
9 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £34,532.00 - £37,111.00 Annually (Actual) Scale PO2 Pt 29-32
Senior Safeguarding Officer job summary
Do you want a job where you make a difference to the lives of children and young people?
Do you want to be inspired on a daily basis by your work?
Are you interested in supporting young people and their families?
Are you interested in developing your leadership and management skills in the role of a Designated Safeguarding Lead, and affect change?
Are you ready to join an inclusive school and Trust keen to develop its staff?
(37 hours per week. Term Time only + 20 days)
It couldn’t be a more exciting time to join the team at Parkside School. We are at the beginning of the next stage of an exciting journey and we are looking for a talented and knowledgeable individual to join us on this journey.
Parkside School is recruiting for a Senior Safeguarding Officer at the school. The Senior Safeguarding Officer will have responsibility for the day-to-day management and co-ordination of Safeguarding within the school, including line management of the Designated Safeguarding Officers within school, with regard to those aspects related to safeguarding and child protection. The role will also oversee the implementation and co-ordination of supervision for colleagues within the wider Safeguarding team.
The role will work to, and with, the Designated Safeguarding Lead, a member of the Senior Leadership Team with responsibility for strategic safeguarding within the school. The successful individual will be a key member of the school team, helping to build and shape our culture of safeguarding, working closely with our students and families to respond to emerging Safeguarding themes and supporting all aspects of Child Protection.
Wellspring Academy Trust and Parkside School believe in investing in our staff. We have a strong CPD offer and all new staff will receive a supportive induction programme.
The role holder must demonstrate a flexible approach to the delivery of the role. Consequently, the role holder may be required to perform work not specifically identified in the job profile but which is in line with the general scope, grade and responsibilities of the role.
If you are as excited by this challenge as we are and you think this might be the role for you, please apply by submitting a completed application form, having taken note of the attachments, by 9am on Thursday 9th January 2025.
Interviews for successfully shortlisted candidates will be undertaken on Monday 13th January 2025.
The School has adopted the principles of Safer Recruitment and will safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to do the same. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal records check via the Disclosure and Barring Service. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview. Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.
Parkside School is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Commitment to safeguarding
Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. As this role involves working with children in regulated activity, please note that it is an offence to apply for the role if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.
References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to interview. Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Parkside School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1144 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Parkside School website (opens in new tab)
Parkside School and locality
We want all of our schools to make a positive contribution to the community that they are embedded within. This impact should be meaningful, considerable and lasting.
We want the young people of Parkside school to have every available opportunity to develop into well-rounded citizens who are equipped to make a positive contribution and who know how to keep themselves safe. We want students to have passionate hopes for their future; hopes that they can articulate, believe in and make real. We want to develop a nurturing environment that develops students who can empathise, critique, protect, love, inspire, make, design, explore and understand; students who are willing to try things they have never tried before, do things they have never done before and who are willing to risk reimagining themselves as the very best version of what they can become.
Located in the picturesque village of Cullingworth, Parkside School is surrounded by rolling hills and dramatic countryside.
The village, three miles south of Keighley and seven miles west of central Bradford, is not only popular with commuters but also with tourists, walkers and cyclists who revel in some of the country’s most glorious scenery.
The locality is steeped in history; the Brontë Parsonage Museum and its famous literary collections lie less than five miles east.
Also on the doorstep is the Saltaire World Heritage Site; a Victorian model village that is home to Salts Mill, which itself boasts striking architecture, eateries and shopping.
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