Hartshill Academy
Salary: £25,277 pa to £27,617 pa
To commence as soon as possible. Please note, this fixed term contract runs until 31st August 2023.
At the Midland Academies Trust, we protect and promote the mental, physical, intellectual, and emotional health of young people. We do this by ensuring they are safe, happy, and successful, enjoying the very best of what has been thought and said in an environment which builds their capacity to become leaders of the future.
Brief Job Description:
The Safeguarding Officer will be one of two DSL officers within the Academy and to advise on all aspects of safeguarding for the pastoral team.
The Safeguarding Officer will ensure that there are effective protocols and systems in place to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students. They will work with external agencies to remove barriers to learning and promote the success and outcomes of all students.
Joining our family of schools:
We regard ourselves as a family of schools - our staff work in close collaboration, sharing workload and learning from each other. As a family, we have agreed and common ways of working in many areas, driven by shared values and developed in partnership with our staff.
We are a local Trust - our academies are located a short drive from each other, and we proudly serve the communities of Nuneaton, Hartshill and Earl Shilton, educating over 3000 young people each year. Our staff are the single greatest resource we have in our mission of creating successful futures for all the pupils in our care.
We place high value on subject expertise and continual professional development. This academic year, our teaching staff will receive over 40 hours of subject specific professional development, including a commitment to all staff experiencing instructional coaching. We work hard to reduce staff workload and our academies have been awarded the Fair Workload Charter recognising our innovative work in this area.
This Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS disclosure. Start dates will be conditional upon receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.