Designated Safeguarding Manager
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 July 2025 |
| Location: | Camden, NW3 3AQ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 76fbb314-ca86-419e-b935-a8c3ff08524d |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an ambitious and enthusiastic individual who enjoys working with young individuals from a range of different backgrounds?
Do you have the experience to be responsible for safeguarding and child protection?
Would you love to work in an innovative, collaborative and innovative school?
About the role
The UCL Academy is seeking a committed, conscientous and passionate individual to join our pastoral team in the newly created role of Designated Safeguarding Manager. You will support the Leadership team to provide a safe environment in which students can develop and learn. You will take the day-to-day lead on safeguarding issues within the school, working closely with the senior leader responsible for inclusion and safeguarding.
Main duties will include:
• Ensuring full compliance with statutory safeguarding and child protection responsibilities;
• Maintain and develop safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring that all staff are well-trained and confident in their responsibilities;
• Lead meetings on behalf of the Academy in cases where the school initiates a MASH or LADO referral;
• Liaise with external agencies such as social services, CAMHS, and the local authority;
• Line manage the Academy's Familiy Liaision Officer and School Welfare Lead.
Candidates who fit the job description but are looking to work part time (no less than 3 days) are still invited to apply.
About the Academy:
The UCL Academy is sponsored by UCL, a world-class, multi-faculty, research-led university. UCL's vision is an innovative Academy for pupils aged 11 to 18. We are a comprehensive, co-educational, non-denominational, fully inclusive and an active member of the Camden family of schools.
Working with our Sponsor, University College London, we have built an inspiring Academy which supports young people to develop as learners, and as ‘whole people’. The UCL Academy is an exciting, stimulating place to learn, with a curriculum which focuses on problem-solving, skills development and ‘real world’ issues. Our core aim is to provide the highest quality teaching in a first-rate learning environment, encouraging all students to be happy and to strive to be the very best.
What the school offers its staff
• State-of-the-art classroom technology – including our unique Superstudios, subject specialism suites and demonstration; theatres for interactive teaching talks by visiting academics;
• Unlimited access to opportunities for self-development and intensive weekly Continuing Professional Learning;
• Longer holidays and more Academy planning days than normal INSET arrangements;
• A whole school wellbeing strategy and designated Academy Wellbeing Lead;
• An exclusive partnership with UCL where teaching staff have access to unrivalled University libraries and resources and to work within our connected curriculum;
• Suitable IT equipment for all teaching staff;
• A generous health care plan, including reimbursement for optical, dental, physiotherapy and a range of other areas, 24/7 GP access;
• A free Employee Assistance Programme that offers free private counselling, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and discounted membership at over 2,000 gyms nationwide;
• A sheltered bike storage facility for those who wish to cycle to work and a generous Cycle to Work scheme.
• An ambitious and forward thinking ethos.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): -Childcare disqualification -Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical -Online and social media -Prohibition from teaching -Right to work -Satisfactory references -Health check and/or occupational health referral You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Are you an ambitious and enthusiastic individual who enjoys working with young individuals from a range of different backgrounds?
Do you have the experience to be responsible for safeguarding and child protection?
Would you love to work in an innovative, collaborative and innovative school?
About the role
The UCL Academy is seeking a committed, conscientous and passionate individual to join our pastoral team in the newly created role of Designated Safeguarding Manager. You will support the Leadership team to provide a safe environment in which students can develop and learn. You will take the day-to-day lead on safeguarding issues within the school, working closely with the senior leader responsible for inclusion and safeguarding.
Main duties will include:
• Ensuring full compliance with statutory safeguarding and child protection responsibilities;
• Maintain and develop safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring that all staff are well-trained and confident in their responsibilities;
• Lead meetings on behalf of the Academy in cases where the school initiates a MASH or LADO referral;
• Liaise with external agencies such as social services, CAMHS, and the local authority;
• Line manage the Academy's Familiy Liaision Officer and School Welfare Lead.
Candidates who fit the job description but are looking to work part time (no less than 3 days) are still invited to apply.
About the Academy:
The UCL Academy is sponsored by UCL, a world-class, multi-faculty, research-led university. UCL's vision is an innovative Academy for pupils aged 11 to 18. We are a comprehensive, co-educational, non-denominational, fully inclusive and an active member of the Camden family of schools.
Working with our Sponsor, University College London, we have built an inspiring Academy which supports young people to develop as learners, and as ‘whole people’. The UCL Academy is an exciting, stimulating place to learn, with a curriculum which focuses on problem-solving, skills development and ‘real world’ issues. Our core aim is to provide the highest quality teaching in a first-rate learning environment, encouraging all students to be happy and to strive to be the very best.
What the school offers its staff
• State-of-the-art classroom technology – including our unique Superstudios, subject specialism suites and demonstration; theatres for interactive teaching talks by visiting academics;
• Unlimited access to opportunities for self-development and intensive weekly Continuing Professional Learning;
• Longer holidays and more Academy planning days than normal INSET arrangements;
• A whole school wellbeing strategy and designated Academy Wellbeing Lead;
• An exclusive partnership with UCL where teaching staff have access to unrivalled University libraries and resources and to work within our connected curriculum;
• Suitable IT equipment for all teaching staff;
• A generous health care plan, including reimbursement for optical, dental, physiotherapy and a range of other areas, 24/7 GP access;
• A free Employee Assistance Programme that offers free private counselling, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and discounted membership at over 2,000 gyms nationwide;
• A sheltered bike storage facility for those who wish to cycle to work and a generous Cycle to Work scheme.
• An ambitious and forward thinking ethos.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): -Childcare disqualification -Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical -Online and social media -Prohibition from teaching -Right to work -Satisfactory references -Health check and/or occupational health referral You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.