Safeguarding Lead

Newsome Academy, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD4 6JN

14 days remaining to apply

• 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.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Newsome Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 753 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Newsome Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/newsome-academy

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