Non-Teaching Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)
Smith's Wood Academy
Solihull
- Expired
- Salary:
- FMAT PAY SCALE, Scale 5 (FTE £26,845- £27,852)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 5 June 2023
Job overview
Non-Teaching Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)
Hours: 37 hours per week (term time only / plus days is to be negotiated at interview)
Salary: FMAT PAY SCALE, Scale 5 (FTE £26,845- £27,852)
Smith’s Wood is an academy with traditional values, and an ethos built around hard work, high expectations and opportunity. Our aim is to ensure that our students leave the Academy prepared to succeed in the next stages of their careers, education and training.
We believe that every child should leave high school proud of the young adult they have become, and that every youngster attending Fairfax deserves the opportunity to thrive in an atmosphere where high expectation meet endless possibilities.
This is a varied role working as part of the safeguarding team to ensure that all students on roll in the Academy are safeguarded.
Duties will include:
- Recognise how to identify signs of abuse and when (and how) to make a referral
- Respond appropriately and promptly to disclosures or concerns relating to the well- being of a child to ensure that they are safeguarded
- Refer allegations or cases of suspected abuse to the relevant investigating agencies, ensuring they have access to the most relevant up to date information.
- Attend and contribute effectively and professionally to multi-agency meetings, including: Child in Need meetings, Child Protection conferences, Early Help, and planning and review meetings
- Liaise with the Local Authority and follow up any referrals made
- Attend Child in Care meetings for LAC students
As part of the FMAT family, staff enjoy access to Perkbox which offers savings on everyday products and services as well as a wellbeing hub. FMAT also operates salary sacrifice options for technology, bikes and a green car scheme. All academies have onsite parking available.
Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as well as providing evidence of qualifications.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and 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: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of[1]offenders-act-1974
To arrange a visit, please contact Linda Roe (PA to the Principal) via email
Closing date: 9am 5 June 2023
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable of candidates.
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About Smith's Wood Academy
- Smith's Wood Academy
- Windward Way, Smith's Wood, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B36 0UE
- United Kingdom
Smith’s Wood Academy is a large academy with just over 900 students from Year 7 to Year 11. Located in the north of Solihull, the academy serves students who live in the immediate locality.
Our vision is that every child within the Trust, regardless of their background, will attend an Academy that offers an outstanding quality of education which means to us:
» Every child is recognised as an individual and has access to first-class pastoral care because we want them to be happy.
» Every child benefits from a wide range of enriching opportunities because we place great emphasis on their personal development.
» Every child benefits from dedicated leaders, teachers and staff who a relentless in their ambition to improve the quality of teaching in our academies because we know excellent teaching is key to transforming the futures of our students
Smith’s Wood is currently in a transitional state and there is a collective spirit that is apparent as the Academy embarks on the next phase of continued growth and school improvement.
Smith’s Wood converted to an academy on the 1st April 2017, working in partnership with the Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust (FMAT)
The five core values of the FMAT are central to all that we do:
Excellence – We strive for the highest quality to ensure excellent outcomes
Dedication – We believe there is dignity in hard work and effort
Ambition – We want the very best for our students
Integrity – We believe in openness and transparency
Tradition – We believe in old fashioned manners, courtesy and respect
Our aim is to prepare each and every student to succeed in the next stages of their career, education and training and to have the skills and competencies to do this. Smith’s Wood’s traditional curriculum and traditional approach to teaching and learning underpins our ethos and our drive to mastering the basics; reading, writing, communicating and mathematics.
We are incredibly proud of our Academy and its community and we sincerely hope that you decide to join the team!
At Smith’s Wood Academy we are committed to the highest standards of presentation, behaviour and achievement. A calm, purposeful environment is the key to successful learning and achievement.
Traditional values are encouraged so that students model respectful and courteous behaviour at all times. We want our students to be confident, responsible citizens who have an understanding of the world around them; we encourage them to make a positive contribution to the school and to their local communities to prepare them to excel in modern Britain. Why should a child's life chances be determined by their background? Demographics do not determine destiny.
Academic achievement is obviously vital so the students have the best chance of achieving their ambitions. The link with Fairfax School in Sutton Coldfield benefits all our students; in fact, any Year 11 student who achieves the required grades will gain entry into the Fairfax Sixth Form.
We look forward to receiving your application to join our family.
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