Designated Safeguarding Lead Administrator
Trinity School
Barking and Dagenham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Term Time Only Scale 6 £24,473 pro rata 35 hours per week
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 6 June 2022
Job overview
Salary: Term Time Only Scale 6 £24,473 pro rata 35 hours per week
Required: As soon as possible
Contract Type: Permanent
Email: rchoudhury@trinity.bardaglea.org.uk
Our School
Trinity is a very large special school in Barking and Dagenham and we serve the special educational needs of over 300 disabled children and young people. We are very proud of our school, the successes and achievements of the pupils and our reputation within the community as a place which strives to provide the best service possible to the children and their families.
We have highly motivated and well-trained staff who are committed to creating a school in which our pupils receive an outstanding education and provide a service to the residents of Barking and Dagenham which is permanent and sustainable.
The Role
We are seeking to appoint a Designated Safeguarding Lead Administrator to assist the Deputy Headteachers, Designated and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads in our school. Our school population requires high levels of support from social care and a wide range of multi-disciplinary partners. This role will involve triaging and escalating each individual case as necessary and will involve high levels of multi-disciplinary work and correspondence.
You will need to have good communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to work flexibly and cooperatively in a team context. Appropriate and accurate use of English in written and oral communications, good organisational skills are also required. A commitment to working in a multicultural setting and with students from diverse backgrounds is essential.
If you think you have the potential to work as an outstanding Designated Safeguarding Lead Administrator then an application form can be downloaded directly from our school website.
Closing date for applications: Monday 6th June 2022, 4pm
Visits to the School by prior appointment are warmly welcomed, to arrange an appointment please telephone or email Runa Choudhury, HR Assistant on 0203 435 5959 or rchoudhury@trinity.bardaglea.org.uk
Interview Date: To be confirmed
All applications must be made on the School’s Application Form available from the Trinity School website: https://www.trinityschooldagenham.org.uk/Vacancies-1/
Completed applications, Declaration Disclosure Form and Disqualification from Caring for Children Form must be sent to rchoudhury@trinity.bardaglea.org.uk
Trinity School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Criminal Record and Barred List checks via the DBS will be undertaken for the successful candidate.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a comprehensive screening process, including a disclosure check, will also be undertaken on all applicants.
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About Trinity School
Our School
Trinity School is an all age, modern, vibrant special school catering for the needs of students who have a wide range of learning difficulties, moderate, severe, profound and complex. A number of our pupils also have an autism spectrum condition (ASC).
At present Trinity is one of two special schools in Barking and Dagenham and it is currently oversubscribed. A wide range of special educational needs is reflected in the school population. The key characteristics of learners are as follows: almost all the pupils have severe learning difficulties of which 54 % have Autistic Spectrum Condition, and 13% have extremely complex medical and/or profound and multiple learning difficulties.
The school also has a 48 week provision known as the Living and Learning Centre. It offers education to a group of twelve pupils with profound autistic spectrum condition. In addition a highly successful extensive extended schools provision is run on each Saturday morning of the term, as well as during some of the school holidays.
The school has been judged as an outstanding school for three consecutive inspections in 2007, 2009 and 2014. Outstanding pupil progress is reflected in whole school data and accreditation attainment and this is supported by established and embedded pedagogies throughout the school.
Main Priorities of the School
- To provide the best service possible to our pupils and their families.
- To enable our pupils and their families to stay together and for pupils to acquire those skills that will support the ability to live as independent a life as possible within this community.
- The school seeks to play our part in counteracting the local cycle of deprivation by teaching relevant skills and supporting families and the work force in raising expectations and fulfilling aspirations.
- To establish models of best practice which can be shared with colleagues across the local authority to ensure that there is a continuity of approaches for people for whom access to services and support will be life-long.
- To foster a well trained work force with competencies in key pedagogies via access to high quality staff training facilities.
- To use staff development as a means of securing planned succession and ensure the continuity of effective teaching.
- To secure the legacy of an outstanding school
- To promote attainment and achievement of all pupils regardless of their disability
- To support the school’s raising attainment agenda through a focus on curriculum development, pedagogies and staff training.
- To foster partnership between Trinity school, the parents, the Local Authority and partner schools/services in sharing our practices for the benefit of children and young people with disabilities in our community.
- To promote the inclusion of all pupils through a rich and varied curriculum and through the delivery of appropriate pedagogy that is taught in a school with excellent facilities and resources.
- To enable an extensive and appropriate use of new technologies as they evolve.
Safer Recruitment Practice
Trinity School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A criminal record check via the DBS will be undertaken for the successful candidate. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a comprehensive screening process, including a disclosure check will be undertaken on all applicants.
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