Safeguarding Lead
Newsome Academy, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD4 6JNThis job expired on 11 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
26 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,300.00 - £26,360.00 Annually (Actual) Scale 5, SCP 12-17 (FTE £27,711 - £30,060) 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time Plus 5 Days (Fixed Term for 12 Months)
Safeguarding Lead job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly experienced and well-established safeguarding team, recognised for its proactive and student-centred approach.
The Safeguarding Lead plays a critical role in supporting students' mental health and emotional wellbeing while also serving as a primary point of contact for safeguarding and child protection matters. This dual role ensures a holistic and responsive approach to student welfare, promoting a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment.
You will work closely with students, staff, families, and external agencies to ensure that all young people receive the care, protection, and support they need to thrive.
The team has a strong track record of working collaboratively across departments and with external partners to ensure the highest standards of care and protection for all students. The successful candidate will contribute to and benefit from this dynamic, supportive, and solution-focused environment.
Please see attached Job Pack for details.
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.
About Newsome Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 801 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Newsome Academy website
School location
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