Student Safeguarding Officer/Deputy DSL
Oxted School, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0ABThis job expired on 31 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,154.00 - £28,454.00 Annually (Actual) P6 £29,787 - £32,406 (FTE)
Student Safeguarding Officer/Deputy DSL job summary
We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate Student Safeguarding Officer to join our team and play a key role in ensuring the safety and well-being of our students. As part of our committed safeguarding team, you will work closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and Safeguarding Team to promote and uphold safeguarding best practices across the school.
You will work closely with the DSL and the Safeguarding Team to monitor and provide a comprehensive overview of all safeguarding concerns. Your responsibilities will include supporting colleagues in following safeguarding and child protection procedures, making referrals, and working with external agencies as needed. Additionally, you will be responsible for maintaining accurate and confidential safeguarding records, ensuring compliance with both school and Trust policies. You will also assist in the delivery of staff training and development on safeguarding matters, as directed by the DSL.
You will be proficient in IT and experience using Microsoft Office 365, Word, Excel and Outlook and have excellent communication skills. Prior experience in an educational or similar environment is desirable.
All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.
The Howard Partnership Trust is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, disability, race, age, or sexual orientation.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.
As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
SAFEGUARDING AND FURTHER INFORMATION
The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.
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 Oxted School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1708 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Oxted School website
School location
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