Safeguarding Manager
Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College
Brighton and Hove
- £36,546 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 26 May 2022
Job overview
We are one of the top-performing colleges in the country, situated in the cosmopolitan seaside city of Brighton & Hove. Working here offers the combination of both a wonderful place to work and a great city in which to live. Our students and staff are colourful, aspirational and hard-working – which is perhaps why 96% of employees would “recommend BHASVIC as a good place to work” and many of our students go on to Higher Education.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic and suitably experienced person to provide and oversee safeguarding support (including mental health) for the most vulnerable students within the college community.
Reporting to the Head of Student Support, you will work closely with colleagues from across the college and will act as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL). You will lead on high-level safeguarding, mental health and crisis support, managing a caseload of the most complex cases, and offering advice and support to colleagues in relation to less complex interventions. You will assist in the management of the immediate response duty phone, ensuring that crisis support is delivered safely and effectively.
This is a highly responsible role within the college and you will be a main point of access for external agencies linked to Child Protection and Safeguarding, leading on and/or advising on referrals from and to specialist agencies where necessary, and ensuring national and local statutory duties are met.
You will also be expected to deliver training, information, advice, and guidance to all members of the college community on best practice in Child Protection and Safeguarding and will assist the Head of Student Support and the Designated Safeguarding Lead in developing and reviewing policies in response to statutory updates, cultural shifts or casework trends, including a focus on developing our approach to online safety and the Prevent duty.
Key to success in this role will be your ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, share your expertise, and build confidence in others to help embed best practice across the organisation. You will provide other front-line pastoral staff with opportunities to critically reflect on their experiences of supporting students, and you will lead on safeguarding peer reviews to identify areas for improvement, ensuring that learning and recommendations from complex cases are followed through. You will be committed to promoting a culture of open communication, professional challenge and mutual support.
This is an exciting opportunity for a specialist in safeguarding and child protection with excellent communication skills and previous knowledge and experience at a suitable level within an educational or similar setting.
Benefits: Join us and you can expect competitive pay and an excellent pension scheme, family-friendly working and a collaborative culture where ideas take flight together. Our Cycle to Work scheme, free counselling and occupational health service, discounted gym memberships and staff wellbeing events will keep you sharp, whilst our tailored induction programme and investment in your professional development – along with the possibility of funding for additional qualifications and to even take a sabbatical – will ensure an exciting future.
Contract/Hours: This is a permanent position, working 37 hours a week, Monday to Friday. Start and finish times are to be agreed between the successful applicant and line manager between the hours of 8am and 5.30pm.
Salary: Your salary will be £36,546 per annum. This salary is within grade 8 of the Support Staff pay spine, and you have been placed on spine point 27 within that grade. This salary will rise to £39,315 per annum over four years, subject to satisfactory performance. Holiday entitlement is 24 days per annum. This entitlement rises to 29 days after five years’ service.
For further details, including how to apply, please visit: www.bhasvic.ac.uk/the-college/working-for-us/current-vacancies (CVs not accepted).
Closing date: 9am on Thursday 26 May 2022
Interview date: Wednesday 8 June 2022
For applicants who are invited to interview, there will be ample opportunity to learn more about our provision and needs through discussions with staff.
BHASVIC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College
- Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College
- 205 Dyke Road, Hove
- East Sussex
- BN3 6EG
- United Kingdom
Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College, otherwise known as BHASVIC, is a co-educational sixth form college for around 3,000 students aged 16-19. The college was founded in its current form in 1975, having formerly been a grammar school. In recent years, the college has seen extensive redevelopment and modernisation, and as such can now boast of a range of modern teaching and recreational facilities including, most recently, an £8m new building opened in 2020, providing specialist media and performing arts spaces, along with state of the art science labs. BHASVIC is consistently in the top 1% of all state providers in terms of both raw results (A level A*-B grades are +70%) and Value Added (A level = +0.48). Students come from over 60 different schools, with 50% of students coming from Brighton and Hove. Students study from over 40 subject courses at A level and level 3 BTEC, alongside Maths and English GCSE and a diverse range of portfolio and enrichment courses.
Principal
Mr William Baldwin
Values and Vision
Our Vision at BHASVIC is to be a Contemporary Creative Learning Community. We achieve outstanding levels of performance based on a culture of learning that allows all students to achieve above and beyond what they think is possible. We provide a broad and balanced all-round education, enabling students to develop as independent, confident and well-informed young adults capable of contributing to and questioning the world around them, regardless of the mix of subjects and qualifications they study. We aim to cultivate a ‘High Challenge and Low Threat’ culture where we strive for the highest possible standards, where staff and students are supported, valued and developed as individuals in a safe environment, knowing that their own well-being is key to our success. We provide a stimulating educational and social environment, with attractive, modern facilities and resources including excellent ILT provision. We encourage creative, innovative, collaborative and reflective approaches to all that we do. We are an inclusive and accepting college where every individual feels part of a community and where we play an active role in our local community to help raise standards and aspirations. We are an efficient, fair and intelligently managed organisation that achieves value for money and functions on a sound business basis with robust financial management.
Ofsted
“Learners make excellent progress, and in some cases exceptional progress. Most do much better than might be expected from their prior achievements when they join the college. This added value is a consistently strong feature of the college since the previous inspection when it was highlighted as a key strength for A level learners. It is particularly noteworthy given the relatively high attainment of learners when they start their courses.”
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