Medical Safeguarding Officer

37/41 weeks per year (term time plus 2 weeks). Preferred hours 8am – 4pm.

Thank you for your interest in working here at Admiral Lord Nelson School. 98% of staff would recommend working at Admiral Lord Nelson School to a colleague looking for a new position. (February 2023 survey).

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our Safeguarding Team. Exceptional interpersonal skills, attention to detail, a solution focussed approach, high levels of initiative, flexibility, the ability to multitask and work under pressure, whilst maintaining confidentiality are a must for this role. 

Reporting to the Inclusion Manager, the Medical Safeguarding Officer takes on the daily running of the medical room and plays a pivotal role in supporting the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) on all safeguarding matters related to Medical issues, liaising with outside agencies as required.

Salterns Academy Trust is a learning community where every member of staff is motivated by the positive difference they will make to the personal development and the futures of our young people of Portsmouth. It was formed when Admiral Lord Nelson School became an academy in April 2014 with Trafalgar School, which is now our thriving partner Secondary School in Portsmouth.

We have a national reputation for being a truly inclusive school with excellent standards and principled curriculum design, we have a deep-rooted and longstanding commitment to being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School. This is a genuinely exciting school to be part of, morally driven by our core values of Inclusivity, Wellbeing and High Expectations.

You will be working with our students offering them medical care and support, along with sometimes simply a listening ear so bucketloads of patience and a good sense of humour is a must. In return you would be joining a safeguarding team who work hard but find time to support each other too!

**Please note an online search will be conducted at the shortlisting stage**

If you are interested in joining our amazing team of staff, we’d love to hear from you. Informal visits from those who are interested in finding out more about the role are welcomed. 

Admiral Lord Nelson School Employee Benefits:

• Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression
• Employer contribution to the Local Government or Teacher Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to sign up to the bike2work scheme
• Free parking

To apply please complete the application form that can be found on the school website www.alns.co.uk by midday on Friday 10 May 2024.

Candidates should send their completed application to recruitment@alns.co.uk

The Salterns Academy Trust and Admiral Lord Nelson School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks. 

Some forms of employment, occupations and professions are exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. 

Working within a School is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. 

You are applying for a role that is eligible for an enhanced DBS check and access to the barred list and if shortlisted for interview you will be required to complete the relevant self-declaration and disclosure form and taking into account the offences that are protected or filtered declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions.
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).  
• If you have been barred from working with Children and/or Adults at risk.

The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings, and any other information held by local police that’s considered relevant to the role. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate.

The successful candidate will then be asked to complete an application for the relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check or if subscribed to the update service provide the necessary details to allow a check to be made.

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The filtering rules were updated on 28 November 2020 as follows:

• Warnings, reprimands and youth cautions will no longer be automatically disclosed on a DBS certificate
• The multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than all being automatically disclosed.