SLT Non-Teaching DSL and RSL
Beauchamps High School, Wickford, Essex, SS11 8LY7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2027
Closing date
9 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
2 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £45,775.00 - £49,599.00 Annually (Actual) Including Fringe allowance
SLT Non-Teaching DSL and RSL job summary
SLT Non-Teaching Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and Raising Standards Lead (RSL)
Salary - Scale 11 Points 38 to 42
£45,775 to £49,599 - Actual including Fringe allowance
Part-Time - 40 weeks - Term Time including INSET days, twilights, Parent/Open evenings and SLT holiday duties as required.
The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) will take lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection across the school, working closely with other senior leaders and external agencies to ensure safeguarding is effective, robust, and embedded within school culture. You will be supported by very experienced Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leaders.
- The Designated Safeguarding Lead is responsible for:
- Promoting the welfare of children across our school
- Managing referrals relating to suspected abuse, neglect, radicalisation, criminal activity or concerns about staff conduct
- Acting as a source of advice, expertise and support for all staff on safeguarding matters, including leading whole staff training
- Supporting and guiding staff through referral processes and safeguarding decision-making
- Maintaining accurate, confidential safeguarding records
- Supporting positive educational outcomes for vulnerable pupils
- Ensuring safeguarding policies, procedures and training are up-to-date
As a Non-teaching Raising Standards Lead, you will be the figurehead to a year group and will support the non-teaching Year Leader for that year group in all aspects of pastoral and welfare care, as well as working with other leaders to support academic progress.
As a full member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will be a key part of all strategic and operational elements of leading a school and you will have other key areas of responsibility in line with the seniority of this post.
We are looking for someone who is committed, resilient and child-centred, with strong safeguarding knowledge and the confidence to work collaboratively with staff, external professionals and most importantly the families and wider community that we serve.
Therefore, experience in a school in a leadership capacity is essential, as is a comprehensive understanding of safeguarding policy and practice in a school setting.
We actively encourage potential candidates to visit Beauchamps High School. If you wish to visit, please email hr@beauchamps.essex.sch.uk
We hold interviews as and when applications are received, and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
About our school
Beauchamps High School is a successful 11-18 school, with examination results consistently above the national picture. We are a truly inclusive school and believe we are a family in which everyone aspires to achieve their best and beyond. The leadership team is dedicated to promoting mutual respect, a love of learning and celebration of success for both staff and students alike.
The school prides itself on being a positive working environment where individuals are always supportive of one another. We offer our staff a varied programme of CPD alongside a range of wellbeing opportunities.
The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the receipt of a satisfactory application form, satisfactory references that meet the requirements as set out in KCSIE, satisfactory online search and an Enhanced DBS check, to include a children's barred list check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Beauchamps High School
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1486 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
School location
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