Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead – SEND Location: Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border Contract Type: Full time, Permanent Hours: 40 hours per week Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per annum This advert could close at any time. If interested, we would encourage you to apply asap. Within this SEND school and residential homes - our residents and students have complex learning difficulties, some associated with profound physical disabilities and/or medical needs. Within our School and Children’s Home, their ages range between 6 – 19. Within our Adult Care Home, ages range from 18 – 30. We are currently seeking a Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead to join our leadership team across our services in Meldreth, taking responsibility for the management of safeguarding issues both on and off site. As our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) you will receive safeguarding referrals via the services safeguarding system, My Concern, and follow the site safeguarding processes and policies to ensure the safety and wellbeing of residents and students. Key Duties: - To develop the improvement of individual and site practice around behaviour and safeguarding and be responsible for policy implementation of these elements, ensuring all practice is in line with all statutory guidelines, CQC & Ofsted regulations - To coordinate the effective implementation of the Attendance Policy. - To provide relevant behaviour and safeguarding training to staff through CPD. - To ensure that all relevant compliance has been completed with the support of the school business manager in the completion of reports and audits - Communicate with parents/carers, employees, other agencies, and local authorities on the progress of children and young people and the effectiveness of intervention and support strategies - Exercise a key role in advising and assisting the Service Leads with the strategic development of behaviour, pastoral, wellbeing, and preparing for adulthood offers, including reviewing, and formulating policies. Requirements; - GCSE (or equivalent) in English & Maths - DSL training level 3 or above and experience working as a DSL. - Level 3 in Health and Social Care, or working with children and young people (Desirable) - Proven track record of excellent creative and structured pastoral interventions within relevant special needs environment. - Experience of holding responsibility for and turning policy into effective and successful practice. - Leadership in a residential setting such as a Children’s Home or Adult Care Home - Communicating effectively to a wide range of different audiences though a range of different mediums and managing relationships with various external agencies. - Successful management of complex scenarios and conflict resolution as well as experience of using effective behaviour and teaching strategies. - Understanding of the implementation of ASD intervention and support strategies (TEACCH, attention Autism or other similar). - Experience of OFSTED & CQC inspections and following action planning. For immediate consideration, please send a full CV to All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details. All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date. Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants. We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided. For details of our privacy policy, please visit the Teaching Personnel website.