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Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead / Pastoral Lead

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead / Pastoral Lead

St Benedict's Catholic College

Essex

  • Expiring soon
Salary:
£26,873 to £28,770 FTE
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
24 May 2024

Job overview

We are looking to appoint a highly organised individual as the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead to assist the Assistant Principal in leading and managing safeguarding across the College. The individual will also provide effective leadership and support to provide quality pastoral care within a year group, and will work effectively with our students, providing an empathic and positive manner in supporting them. The successful candidate will ideally need to have a good pass in GCSE qualifications in English and Maths and it is essential that they have experience of working with secondary-age students.

The specific responsibilities can be found in the job descriptions contained within the recruitment pack.

We are a highly respected and over-subscribed Catholic college that Ofsted found to be outstanding in its commitment to the social, moral and spiritual development of all its students. Our recent section 48 inspection found the college to have many other areas of outstanding practice.

The pay band for the role is Scale 6 (scp 13 to 17), which is £26,873 to £28,770.

The hours of work for the role will be 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and this will be required term time, plus five staff training days and 1 week in school holidays (40 weeks in total).

The actual salary for the role (inclusive of holiday pay) is £23,605.36 to £25,271.69 (under 5 years’ service) or £23,914.60 to £25,602.76 (over 5 years’ service).

We would be delighted to arrange an informal discussion; please contact Miriam Davis (Assistant Principal) on 01206 549222 or by email to m.davis@stbenedicts.essex.sch.uk.

For further details about the college, please go to our website www.stbenedicts.essex.sch.uk

Applications will only be accepted on the college application form (which can be downloaded from our website) and should be emailed to Mrs Catherine Miller, HR Administrator, at c.miller@stbenedicts.essex.sch.uk. CVs will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications: Midday on 24th May 2024

Interviews will be held w/c 3rd June 2024.

The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all young people and expects all staff to share that commitment. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Attached documents

About St Benedict's Catholic College

About St Benedict's Catholic College

St Benedict’s Catholic College is a secondary school located in the ancient town of Colchester, Essex. Originally founded in 1963 as a secondary modern, St Benedict’s exists today as a co-educational voluntary-aided school.

It is the only Catholic secondary school in Colchester. With 900 students aged 11-16, St Benedict’s is a smaller than average secondary school.

Principal

Mrs Jo Santinelli


Values and vision

As a school in the Catholic tradition, St Benedict’s holds Catholic values at the heart of everything it does. The college has a dedicated chaplaincy office, with mass being offered to all students regularly and prayer taking place in form time every morning.

The college regularly organises retreats in order to encourage spiritual reflection and team-building. Students are well supported by the chaplaincy and pastoral teams. St Benedict’s has a strong reputation for academic excellence, and seeks to preserve this by offering a wide-ranging and well-taught curriculum.


Ofsted says

  • St Benedict’s is a welcoming school with a strong ethos of caring for pupils and promoting academic achievement.
  • It’s more than a school: it’s a community
  • Pupils’ behaviour is typically good.
  • There are strong relationships between staff and pupils.
  • During social times the school is calm, and pupils take part in a range of activities.
  • Classrooms are calm and focused places to learn.
  • The school is well led and managed.
  • Leaders at all levels want pupils to succeed academically.


Section 48 inspectors say

St Benedict’s is an outstanding Catholic school having continued to improve since the last inspection. These improvements are a result of outstanding leadership at all levels within the school community. The school provides exceptional care and support for students who thrive in this highly inclusive multifaith community which has Christ at the centre of all its work.

The strong and all-pervading Catholic ethos is underpinned by highly positive and supportive relationships between all members of the school community

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