Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead

Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead
Location: Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per annum

Teaching Personnel have an amazing opportunity to work with outstanding schools based in Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border. The school are looking for a passionate and experienced safeguarding & pastoral lead to join there dedicated team.

At these schools the 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.

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.

Skills and Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

You will be required to have a full UK driving license and access to your own vehicle for this vacancy.

If this opportunity is for you please send your CV to Abigail Simpson

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