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Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

Northolt High School

Ealing

Salary:
NJC Payscale PO3 Scale Point 32-35 plus inner London weighting
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2022
Apply by:
6 June 2022

Job overview

Term Time Only

At Northolt High School, our vision, mission and values underpin everything that we do. Our aim is to enable our students to develop strength of character, to be articulate and confident and to secure the best academic outcomes possible. Our school vision is "committed to excellence". Our mission statement describes how we work to achieve this core aim - through "seizing opportunity, instilling ambition, realising potential". Join us and you will be welcomed by a hard-working, dedicated staff and subject team who are united in their focus on student achievement and continuous school improvement.

We work in partnership with an organisation called Sycol which supports us in ensuring that we have clear systems in place, which are developed and agreed by staff collectively. Termly innovation projects involve every member of staff, helping us to quickly and effectively share ideas whilst forging strong partnerships across the staff team. These projects ensure that systemic school improvement is embedded in everything we do whilst at the same time providing all staff members with a high quality leadership development programme.

Northolt High School is a Foundation School in the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing schools have traditionally worked very collaboratively and it is no coincidence that Ealing’s performance in national league tables is strong. Schools in Ealing have come together to form the Ealing Learning Partnership (ELP) in conjunction with the Council. This partnership provides us with a range of networks so that Northolt High School staff are able to share and develop ideas and practice with Ealing colleagues across a range of schools.

We are a relatively small school at the moment with 905 students on roll, but this is about to increase as we are supporting Ealing Council by adding three additional classes onto our school roll over the course of this academic year and a fourth class from September 2022. We also have a new building project on the horizon which we expect to make our school even more popular.

We maintain a broad and balanced curriculum offer for all students. Our intention is to develop the school so that it has STEAM specialism (the ‘A’ is for Art) whilst at the same time retaining a breadth of curriculum offer for our students. Our curriculum offer includes a broad range of extra-curricular activities as all teachers offer one after school activity a week.

We are adding this post to our staff team as a direct response to the challenges students have faced during the pandemic, as we have noticed an increase in safeguarding referrals and requests from support from students and families following the two national lockdowns. The successful postholder will work closely with the Assistant Headteacher who is our Designated Safeguarding Lead and also with our in school social worker. As well as supporting students directly and attending relevant professionals meetings, you will also assist in staff training and development to ensure that our robust safeguarding culture is not only maintained but improved.

We will be the right school for you if you are committed to:  

  • Ensuring that the students in our school are fully safeguarded and protected;   
  • Leading and training staff in order to ensure that all Safeguarding and Child Protection policies and processes are followed at all times;   
  • Play a full part in termly innovation projects to contribute to the development of school- wide continuous improvement;   
  • Contributing to the wider life of the school and our engagement with the local community whenever opportunities arise.

We can offer you:  

  • Great support and training as you develop your career;   
  • The opportunity to innovate and bring in new ideas to contribute towards improving our school;   
  • A caring and supportive professional environment, with attention paid to staff wellbeing and helping staff to maintain a good work / life balance;   
  • A thoughtful and well-structured school calendar with careful attention paid to balancing workload;   
  • A commitment to providing high quality opportunities for you to continue your professional learning.

Our recruitment process

One of the Ealing Learning Partnership projects we have been engaged with in the last two years is a ‘No Learner Left Behind’ project to improve the outcomes of our Black Caribbean students. Informed by our work on this project, we conduct an annual analysis of the ethnicity profile of our student body. Our long term aim is to ensure that the profile of our staff group matches that of our students. At the moment, we are underrepresented in the following ethnicity groups: Arab, Asian, Black Caribbean, Black African and Traveller of Irish Heritage. We would therefore welcome applications from candidates who would classify themselves as belonging to these groups.

We are introducing a ‘blind’ selection process this year which we also hope will support us in reducing the risk of any unintended bias during our recruitment process. You will see that our application form is in two parts. Part one, which contains details about candidates’ gender, ethnicity and age, is not shared with the staff who select candidates to bring them forward to the interview stage.

A Job Description & Person Specification plus an application form can be found on our website: www.northolthigh.org.uk 

If you would like to find out more about the school prior to your application, please contact Lauren Weeks, the Headteacher’s PA on the email address below.

Please email your application to the Headteacher’s PA at: lweeks@northolthigh.org.uk.  

Closing date: 9am, Monday 6 June 2022

Interviews to be held on Friday 10 June 2022

The school is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment processes are always robustly followed. Successful candidates’ appointment will be subject to safer recruitment checks and satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check. Further information can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about 

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Northolt High School is a great place to work. Join us if you are keen to be a part of a tightly-knit and supportive staff team with a sharp focus on continuous improvement. We look after our members of staff well, so that in turn you are able to provide a great quality of education for our students. 

At Northolt High School we are committed to providing an excellent standard of education. During our two year KS3 programme, our students discover and improve their learning skills across the curriculum which enables them to develop the resilience and independence they need in order to succeed during KS4 and KS5. We retain a breadth to our curriculum offer which enables students to study a full range of subjects. Our small specialist sixth form delivers excellent results and we have a good track record of students progressing onto a range of universities including Oxbridge and Russell group institutions. 

We work in partnership with a range of organisations to help us improve the school. Examples of our partnerships include the National Literacy Trust who support us in developing of our students’ academic writing, Sycol whose school improvement system means that all staff take part in developing termly ‘innovations’, the Mayor of London who has funded a two year ‘Stepping Stones’ transition project to help our students move from primary to secondary school and the Institute of Physics who have supported our successful ‘Girls in Physics’ initiative. These are just a few of the many initiatives which support our students’ learning and progress.

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