Trust Safeguarding Lead

Lime Trust, London, E4 8ET

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  18 October 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £54,129.00 - £76,112.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership or NJC range depending on experience, term term only plus inset (39 weeks)

Trust Safeguarding Lead job summary

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure that:

- Learners are safe and enjoy learning

- Everyone feels included, respected, and valued

- An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood

- Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.

Overview of the role:

This is a new role and is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Trust.

- Provide comprehensive support, advice and challenge across the Trust to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all learners

- Take a senior and proactive role in the effective delivery and quality assurance of Lime Trusts safeguarding policy, practices and processes

- Lead and manage the Trust’s response to significant changes in legislation and statutory guidance relating to safeguarding, ensuring that the Trust and all its academies are fully compliant in all areas relating to safeguarding

- Be the key source of expert safeguarding advice to designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) across the Trust and act as a first point of contact and advisor when safeguarding issues arise

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual. Our aim is to provide our learners with the best possible opportunities to succeed with future goals and aspirations in all areas of their life including social, emotional, physical and communication. We strive to ensure our learners reach their full potential to allow them to actively participate in the wider community and to prepare them for adult life.

This role will be a remote worker and the post holder will be required to travel to all schools within the Trust across London and Peterborough on a regular basis, including any future schools that join the Trust.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates could be called for interview prior to the closing date.

Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact Kirsten Jowett CEO on 07957323482 or Kirsten.jowett@limetrust.org to discuss the role further or to arrange a visit.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before 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.

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 Lime Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
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