Strategic Lead Safeguarding (Leadership Team)
Myton School, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 6PJ11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £44,711 - £46,731
What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you have the expertise and leadership skills to embed a culture of safeguarding across a school community? If so, we are looking for a Strategic Lead Safeguarding to join our Senior Leadership team. As the Strategic Lead Safeguarding, you will be responsible for fostering a strong safeguarding culture where every student feels safe and supported. You will ensure that all staff are fully trained and understand their safeguarding responsibilities, while also ensuring students are educated on how to keep themselves safe.
In this role, you will lead on all aspects of safeguarding across the school, ensuring a proactive and embedded culture of child protection. You will oversee the training and development of staff, ensuring they fully understand their safeguarding responsibilities and are equipped to act accordingly. Monitoring the application of safeguarding policies and procedures, you will intervene or adjust strategies as needed to ensure best practice. You will also work closely with the wider safeguarding and pastoral teams to ensure effective support for students, while shaping the curriculum to respond to the specific safeguarding needs of the school. Acting as the key point of contact for external agencies, parents, and carers, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safety, well-being, and protection of all students.
We are seeking a safeguarding professional with extensive knowledge of child protection policies and procedures, strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to train and develop staff in best safeguarding practices. You should have a proactive, child-centred approach and the ability to adapt policies to meet the contextual needs of the school, as well as experience in monitoring safeguarding concerns and acting decisively when necessary.
What the school offers its staff
Myton is a very popular, high performing school with academy status, situated between Warwick and Leamington Spa. As a happy and purposeful community, we offer students an exciting curriculum and a huge range of extra-curricular opportunities within a safe, secure and supportive environment. You will have access to a range of personal and professional development opportunities plus an Employee Assistance Programme and Staff Wellbeing initiatives to support you along the way.
Further details about the role
If you are not familiar with Myton yet, or want to find out more about the role, please contact us to find out more. Our Deputy Head, Mr Neil Phipps, is keen to hear from you via Phipps.n@myton.co.uk.
For any queries, please email vacancies@myton.co.uk (or tel: 01926 493805 ext. 225/209).
Closing date: 9.00am, 5 March 2025
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Myton School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1758 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Myton School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- thomas.p@myton.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01926 493805
Myton is a very popular, high performing school with academy status, situated between Warwick and Leamington Spa. As a happy and purposeful community, we offer students an exciting curriculum and a huge range of extra-curricular opportunities within a safe, secure and supportive environment. With enduring values of care and mutual respect we support hard-working staff as well as students and families.
Arranging a visit to Myton School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email thomas.p@myton.co.uk.
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