Salary: L12 - L16 Job type: Full Time, Maternity Cover Start date: January 2025 Apply by: 4 December 2024 Job overview Thank you for your interest in joining our Safeguarding team at Abbeyfield School. It is an exciting time to be joining our school, as we embark on a truly unique approach to Safeguarding and student wellbeing. I am aware of the vital role that every staff member plays in ensuring the safety and wider wellbeing of students and the challenges that safeguarding staff face in the context of the daily battle to meet the needs of our students and their families. It is my commitment that safeguarding roles should be underpinned by significant capacity for those overseeing it as a whole school cultural requirement. In this regard, the structure that we have invested in is as follows: Assistant Principal (Safeguarding) : Our Designated Safeguarding Lead will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team but will not have a teaching timetable. We are open to a teaching staff member or non-teaching staff member fulfilling this position, but owing to the unique approach, there will be no classroom loading. Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead x2 : Two DDSL staff members as non-teaching members of the safeguarding team, trained and supported with CPD to deputise for the DSL and resourced appropriately to do so- potential career advancement to DSL level could be an aspiration which we would be keen to support. Safeguarding Administrator : Trained and qualified to support the safeguarding team and support the administration of the wider role. Our commitment as a school is to devote full timetables to all safeguarding staff for the purposes of embedding exemplary safeguarding provision. All totalled, the Safeguarding team is being allocated 200 timetable hours a fortnight to create a truly special and groundbreaking safeguarding model that we hope will become best practice for other schools. Whilst there will undoubtedly be some out of hours requirements, our commitment to the wellbeing and workload of our staff is clear. Abbeyfield school is also well resourced in terms of staff for pastoral support. We are fortunate to have social workers, Heads of Year and Assistant Heads of Year in each year group, as well as mentors and student support workers. In addition, we have invested in our attendance team to deal with the emerging challenges around attendance in a post pandemic environment. I look forward to receiving your application for the relevant position. Interest will be high, so please do not hesitate to get in touch, you can contact me directly on 07842 434021. Yours Sincerely, Fiona Aris, Principal About Abbeyfield School Abbeyfield School Mereway, Northampton Northamptonshire NN4 8BU United Kingdom 44 1604 763616 Abbeyfield School, part of the Creative Education Trust, is an 11-18 school, predominately serving the South East of Northampton. Through teamwork and a shared desire to support and challenge every student in order for them to achieve their personal best we are building on the 2016 Ofsted ‘good’ judgement and the very pleasing recent outcomes. We have high expectations and aspirations of ourselves and of our students. Our Quality First Teaching Charter ensures a focus on high quality teaching and learning. Alongside academic achievement we place a very high value on students’ social and personal development, equipping them with the life and employability skills needed for successful adulthood. The school has a wealth of facilities that underpin the wide curriculum including; state of the art theatre, science lecture theatre, dance studio, drama studio, super learning centre designed for collaborative teaching, fitness suite, sports field, netball courts, basketball courts, gym and a full size sports hall. In the last few years we have been at the forefront of curriculum innovation and now offer our students an extensive and relevant curriculum choice. Our mission is to develop the full academic, personal and social potential of each individual student. The School has a growing reputation for success, with our school slogan "Ambitious to Achieve" proposed by one of our own Year 12 students and our 6 school values - Respect, Resilience, Honesty, Responsibility, Creativity and Independence formed from a staff and student vote. We have high expectations of our students and are an inclusive community and welcome all students from all backgrounds. This Ambition and community spirit throughout the school led to our Northamptonshire Secondary School of the Year Award 2019 (Northamptonshire Education Awards) .