Safeguarding Administrator
Leigh Academy Bexley
Erith, Bexley
- Salary:
- Bexley Grade 6: actual salary £20,035-£21,136 per annum (£23,397-£24,683 full time equivalent)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 5 December 2022
Job overview
King Henry School has an opportunity for a Safeguarding Administrator to join and support our extended safeguarding team. Reporting to the Safeguarding, Attendance and Student Welfare Manager, you’ll be responsible for maintaining and further improving safeguarding standards, policies and practices across the school. This includes being a safeguarding liaison for internal and external contacts from an administrative perspective, maintaining relevant databases to ensure they are updated in a timely manner and accurate, and keeping accurate and concise records of all interventions and consultations that take place.
Safeguarding is of paramount importance at King Henry School and the support that the successful candidate will provide is incredibly valuable. If you are a meticulous worker with excellent attention to detail, have a ‘can-do’ attitude and are resilient, then this is an ideal role for you. Ideally, our successful candidate will have some experience in a similar educational setting.
The working basis of the role is 36 hours per week, Term Time + 1 week inset.
Note that Leigh Academies Trust is currently supporting King Henry School to recruit exceptional staff who can make an immediate positive impact on the school community and all of its students. Click here to read about the potential transition of King Henry to Leigh Academies Trust in early 2023. This is a hugely exciting time to join King Henry School and for our staff to work together under the remarkable leadership of John Dixon, Principal.
Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.
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About Leigh Academy Bexley
- Leigh Academy Bexley
- Avenue Road, Erith
- Kent
- DA8 3BN
- United Kingdom
Our Vision
We believe that every student should have the opportunity to be extraordinary through developing academic, physical and emotional confidence. This means having the courage to take risks and learn from their mistakes. Success in education, as in sport, is the result of successive small failures followed by ever increasing challenges. As we tell our students; “Everything worth achieving is outside your comfort zone.”
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