Head of Safeguarding

Job Title: Head of Safeguarding

Position: Permanent

Salary Range: £45,000-£65,000

About Us:

White Trees is a small independent school that specializes in working with pupils aged 11-18 years with social, emotional, and mental health needs (SEMH).

Role and Responsibilities:

• Ensure all systems are utilized in reporting and recording behavioral incidents.
• Provide end of term data to be captured in reports/analysis.
• Take part in strategic discussions and inter-agency meetings, and/or support other staff to do so, and contribute to the assessment of children.
• Manage referrals and refer cases of suspected abuse to the local authority children's social care as required.
• Understand the assessment process for providing early help and statutory intervention, including local criteria for action and local authority children's social care referral arrangements.
• Have a working knowledge of how local authorities conduct a child protection case conference and a child protection review conference and be able to attend and contribute to these effectively when required to do so.
• Update and review policies.
• Liaise with the Executive Head Teacher regarding incidents and concerns.
• Manage a team of DSLs including referrals and actions and monitor and manage CPOMS.
• Ensure all staff undertake regular safeguarding training in line with updates, including compulsory external training each year and that all safeguarding posters are up to date on school sites.
• Keep up to date with changes in Government legislation, including KCSIE.
• Liaise with the safeguarding Governor for advice when and where required.
• Robustly liaise with external agencies, ensuring referrals are completed in a timely manner and rigorously followed up.
• Attend Child Protection meetings and any emergency professional meetings/Strategy meetings which are called - logging information on CPOMS.
• Attend Governors meetings ensuring a full safeguarding report is complete - containing key updates - Physical intervention records - Incident analysis.
• Develop staff knowledge of safeguarding by sending regular scenarios out and ensuring they understand the systems in place.
• Hold fortnightly safeguarding meetings to discuss live concern students - looking at what interventions are in place and what support is around the child.
• Liaise with Deputies if social care referrals need to be put in place and support them in ensuring the referral is completed.
• Conduct pupil/parent tours for prospective students.
• Establish a safe and stimulating environment for pupils, ingrained in mutual respect.
• Have a highly visible presence in the school to support the maintenance of a positive school ethos and positive behavior.
• Lead by example - show our pupils and staff what we expect from them, positive behavior and good manners.
• Maintain good relationships with pupils, parents, and professionals, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary.
• Carry out such other duties as may reasonably be assigned by the Executive Head.
• Attend and participate in all appropriate meetings.

Qualifications/Experience:

• QTS (essential)
• NPQH (desirable)
• Extensive experience in working with pupils who have SEMH of secondary age within a leadership position.
• Level 3 DSL trained.

Benefits:

• Career progression.
• Company induction, including physical intervention training (NFPS).
• Auto enrolment pension scheme.
• Refer a friend bonus £500
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). 24-hour confidential support help line & counselling.
• Ongoing Continuous Personal Development.

Terms and conditions apply.