Trust Safeguarding & Attendance Lead

Enhance Academy Trust, Bradford, BD1 4DY

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  18 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 32.5 hours per week / Term Time Only + 5 days
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: NJC SCP 28 -31 (Full-time equivalent salary: £39152 - £41771 – pay award pending)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Trust Safeguarding & Attendance Lead

Enhance Academy Trust- Unit 7, The Office Campus, Paragon Business Park, Red Hall Ct, Wakefield WF1 2UY

Scale Points: NJC SCP 28 -31 (Full-time equivalent salary: £39152 - £41771 – pay award pending)

Start date: As soon as possible

Working Pattern: 32.5 hours per week / Term Time Only + 5 days

Closing Date: Friday 18th September

Key Tasks Strategic Safeguarding Leadership

• Lead safeguarding provision across the Trust, ensuring support meets the identified needs of children and families, including regular feedback and updates to the Trust’s Executive Team on safeguarding and child protection matters.
• Ensure academies comply with statutory safeguarding and child protection obligations, are held to account for effective practice, and that child protection policies and procedures are understood and implemented correctly by staff across the Trust.
• Maintain a sound understanding of education, safeguarding and child protection legislation, including Keeping Children Safe in Education. • Provide specialist knowledge, skills and judgement to support child-centered decision making.
• Lead annual safeguarding reviews and due diligence checks across the Trust, providing constructive feedback to Headteachers and Safeguarding Leads.

Attendance

• Support on all statutory functions in relation to prosecutions for non-attendance, Attendance Order Proceedings for children missing education (CME) and Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs)
• Support and or produce, analyse, and report attendance data across the Trust.
• Keep abreast of changes in legislation and relevant DfE guidance.
• Develop and monitor policy and planning in relation to attendance, including the Trust’s long-term objectives and common minimum standards.
• Support schools in developing positive relationships with parents, carers and pupils to help ensure any plans in place are tailored to individual needs and encourage a holistic approach where necessary.
• At the earliest opportunity, support schools to identify and intervene in patterns of persistent absence so that these do not become established.
• Support with targeted support for identified pupils by forging relationships with parents, carers or guardians.
• Work with the families of severely absent pupils to support pupils’ return to full-time education.
• Assess problems and identify solutions by working closely with pupils, parents and carers.
• Improve links and build relationships with families to best support the pupil.

Partnership Working and Multi-Agency Engagement

• Build effective professional relationships with Local Authorities, Children’s Services and other external agencies to promote children’s educational rights and secure positive outcomes.
• Represent the Trust and support academies at multi-agency meetings concerning individual children, completing reports and relevant paperwork in line with procedures.
• Maintain a good knowledge of local inter-agency arrangements led by the three safeguarding partners and act as the Trust’s main point of contact with them.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external support agencies, liaising with stakeholders and supporting academies with referrals where appropriate.

What the school offers its staff

Enhance Academy Trust is seeking to appoint a Trust Safeguarding & Attendance Lead to join our established team, supporting our primary academies across Barnsley, Kirklees, and Wakefield. We are a successful and growing Church of England Multi-Academy Trust, currently comprising 17 primary academies and a Post-16 Creative and Performing Arts free school. This is a unique opportunity to shape and establish a newly created strategic Trust leadership role. You will have the opportunity to influence Trust strategy, build professional networks and develop sector-leading practice across our academies, making a lasting difference to children, young people and school leaders across Enhance.

As Trust Safeguarding & Attendance Lead, you will oversee the Trust’s safeguarding functions, ensuring they are robust, effective and compliant with statutory safeguarding and child protection requirements. Working closely with Designated Safeguarding Leads, Headteachers, SENCOs and external agencies, you will help ensure that children who are at risk receive timely, high-quality and well-coordinated support.

You will also play a key role in establishing a strong culture of attendance across all schools within the Trust. The role will involve both supporting and constructively challenging schools to develop and implement effective processes that address and overcome barriers to attendance faced by pupils and their families. This is a highly visible and influential role, requiring someone who can combine specialist safeguarding knowledge with strong professional judgement, constructive challenge and the ability to build trusted relationships across the Trust and with local safeguarding partners.

This role will involve a blend of operational and strategic responsibilities. The postholder will work directly with school staff to improve attendance and promote strong safeguarding practice, while also leading on strategic initiatives and engaging in high-level discussions and coordinated actions with external agencies. If you feel you have the experience, skills, and qualities to be successful in this role, we would be delighted to hear from you.

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

Enhance Academy Trust has an absolute commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal record check via the DBS. The Trust values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all.

Applying for the job

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

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Trust Safeguarding & Attendance Lead September 2026 (1).pdf - 353 KB (opens in new tab)

About Enhance Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Enhance Academy Trust website
• Email address: elizabeth.vokes@enhanceacad.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/enhance-academy-trust

Enhance Academy Trust is a Church of England Multi-Academy Trust comprising of sixteen primary schools located across Wakefield, Barnsley and Kirklees and a post 16 performing arts free school.

The Trust works very closely with its academies and encourages them to help each other whilst at the same time allowing them a reasonable amount of autonomy. It has kept to this model whilst expanding and wants to continue to follow similar principles in the future.

Our vision is to deliver improved educational outcomes and learning skills to enable our young people to live well in the world around them. We also aim to allow our academy leaders and staff to develop the individual character of our academies so they can best serve their local communities.

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