Student Support Role - Safeguarding Officer

Outwood Academy City Fields, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4SF

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  5 August 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Monday to Friday, 37 Hours Per Week. Term Time Plus Ten Days.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £29,093 - £30,060

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Experience of working in a school environment;
• Significant experience in safeguarding and child protection;
• Knowledge of issues affecting young people and how to offer supportive assistance;
• Experience of working with other agencies, such as Social Care, NHS, etc.;
• Experience in the management and coordination of safeguarding young people;
• Recent experience of working with children and families in the public, private or voluntary sector;
• Experience of working with secondary age students;
• Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of audiences, verbally and in writing;
• Ability to respect and maintain confidentiality;
• Ability to use standard ICT packages including Microsoft Office;
• Good time management and organisational skills;
• Ability to relate to students in a pleasant and sympathetic manner and to recognise potential child safeguarding issues.

What the school offers its staff

Your starting salary with annual increments plus inflation linked increases. The starting salary within the grade advertised will be dependent upon your experience. You will also receive:

• A comprehensive induction and training process
• Automatic enrolment into an increasingly rare and valuable defined Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates
• Flexible family friendly policies from day one
• Enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period
• Holidays: A minimum of 25 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service)
• A range of working patterns are available dependant upon the role

Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to:

• Specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues
• Emotional support and counselling for a wide range of personal and work issues
• Legal guidance
• Financial guidance and debt counselling
• Child and dependent care support and advice
• Support for managers

We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing policy and menopause policy along with menopause champions based in our academies. Other benefits include:

• Free flu vaccinations
• Free onsite parking
• Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing
• Access to various discount sites

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

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INC024 Safeguarding Officer PS.pdf - 228 KB (opens in new tab)

INC024 Safeguarding Officer JD.pdf - 151 KB (opens in new tab)

About Outwood Academy City Fields

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 900 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Outwood Academy City Fields website
• Email address: a.jarrett@cityfields.outwood.com
• Phone number: 01924 298752
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/outwood-academy-city-fields

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