Director of Safeguarding DSL
Closing Date: 07/02/2025 - 12pm
Interviews: w/c 10/02/2025
Salary Scale: SM1 – SM4 (£49,094 - £52,438)
Start Date: ASAP
No CV's
Visits to the Academy are welcome. Please email s.nicholson@tkaw.org to arrange.
The Director of Safeguarding DSL will be an appropriate senior member of staff, from the school leadership team, who is appointed to the role of designated safeguarding lead.
About the role
The designated safeguarding lead should take lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection (including online safety and understanding the filtering and monitoring systems in place). They will take part in strategy discussions and inter-agency meetings, and contribute to the assessment of children.
They will advise and support other members of staff on child welfare and child protection matters, and liaise with relevant agencies such as the local authority and police.
About you:
● Refer cases of suspected abuse to the local authority children’s social care
● Support staff who make referrals to local authority children’s social care
● Refer cases to the Channel programme where there is a radicalisation concern
● Support staff who make referrals to the Channel programme
● Refer cases to the Disclosure and Barring Service where a person is dismissed or left due to risk or harm to a child
● Refer cases where a crime may have been committed to the police
● Keep detailed, accurate, updated and secure written/electronic records of concerns and referrals, discussions and decisions made including the rationale for those decisions. This should include instances where referrals were or were not made to another agency such as LA children’s social care or the Prevent program etc.
About us:
We are a “Good” school that offers the following:
Staff Continual Professional development around evidence based research
* Staff workload consideration
* Staff wellbeing as a key priority
* Supportive staff body