Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)

St. Luke's School

Crouch Hall Lane

Redbourn

St. Albans

Hertfordshire

AL3 7ET

01582 626727

www.stlukes.herts.sch.uk

Full / part time

Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)

Salary range: between 38296 and 46549

Pay details: M1 - M2

Start date: As soon as the necessary checks are through

A position has arisen as a result of the current DSL moving to another post.  The DSL is an integral staff member across our federation of schools. We are looking to recruit a person with extensive safeguarding experience to lead the responses, guidance and actions for the schools in our federation. The role will help maintain and further improve the excellence of our safeguarding culture. The ideal candidate would be a social worker or having the experience of having worked in social care or through multi-agency working. A teaching qualification is not required for this position.

Job Context

The position is term-time plus 4 weeks.

St Luke’s and The Collett are wonderful Foundation Special Schools, which make up The Blue Tangerine Federation for pupils who have a wide range of learning and social needs, fantastic personalities and skills that make this job truly special!

Our Schools are a welcoming, caring and friendly, full of vitality and enthusiasm. If this looks interesting - come and have a look around this amazing school and see if we're right for you too! Please contact our reception on 01582 626727 or email Donna Abel on HR@bluetangerine.herts.sch.uk

As a Federation, we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service check is an essential for this post, as are references which are taken up and robustly checked. Full training is given, as are regular updates, to ensure that our children are kept safe.

Thank you for your interest and looking forward to seeing you soon.

Best wishes, 

Stephen Hoult-Allen

Executive Head

Jame Caple                                  

Jennie Witter

Head of St Luke's School                        

Head of The Collett School  

We are required to conduct online searches about all candidates as part of the shortlisting process, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the shortlisting process.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.  

Closing date: 08/12/2022 14:00:00

Interview date: Week Commencing

St Luke's is a Foundation federated with The Collett School to form The Blue Tangerine Federation. The Blue Tangerine Federation is a collaboration of specialist and special education schools. Both schools have Foundation status. St Luke’s School and The Collett School are special educational needs schools for children with complex learning difficulties. St Luke’s School St Luke’s is a wonderful special school for pupils aged 7-16 with learning disabilities and increasingly complex needs. The designation for the school is children with cognitive disabilities including Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN), Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Moderate (MLD) learning disabilities.  We welcome applicants to the school who have a passion for enabling our children with special needs to thrive through childhood into adulthood. You will need a great sense of humour, willingness to try new strategies, a love of 'difference' and enthusiasm for delivering a special curriculum that focuses on the individuals' needs, aspiration and enjoyment of learning - no matter how hard the child finds it. St Luke's School is based on a site originally designed for a secondary school and so we have some fantastic features for a special needs school including a wide collection of animals used as part of our curriculum and therapeutic interventions as well as 6 acres used for sports, horticulture and our expanding venture into securing work opportunities on site for our pupils.  Our curriculum is diverse, broad but tailored to the needs of the children through 'pathways' with relevant outcomes.  Staff work across age groups and get to know each child well within Learning Groups, where the teacher and TA’s tend to be with the class for the majority of the school day. You would be joining a staff team of all ages (teens to sixties) and at different stages of their careers. We believe in Continued Professional Development and Learning (CPDL) in order to be a learning school, that has passion, visionary creativity and expertise but is also humble in recognising the need to work in partnerships with parents and many others to get things right.  Hard work, training and personal research, passion and a belief in the abilities of young people with disabilities would be crucial to your success at St Luke's. As a Federation, we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service check is an essential for this post, as are references which are taken up and robustly checked. Full training is given, as are regular updates and ensurances our children are kept safe.

We look forward to meeting you! Mr Stephen Hoult-Allen (Executive Headteacher) Mr Jamie Caple (Head of School) Within The Blue Tangerine family, diversity is an integral part of our history, culture, and identity. Inclusion is the way we treat and perceive all differences. We want to create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity are seen as real value for our schools.  We do not discriminate against people regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique.  

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