Safeguarding Officer
Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 01 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
Dyddiad cau: | 11 Gorffennaf 2025 |
Lleoliad: | Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36 4DY |
Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
Cyfeirnod swydd: | 8aedc2fd-1586-4d5c-ae5e-0cc3f7dddcfa |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications and training:
• GCSE (or equivalent)
• Relevant safeguarding qualifications
Experience:
• Successful leadership and management experience in a school or other relevant organisation
• Experience of managing safeguarding in a school or other relevant organisation.
• Demonstrable evidence of developing and implementing strategies to help children and their families
• Experience of handling large amounts of sensitive data and upholding the principles of confidentiality
Skills and knowledge:
• Expert knowledge of legislation and guidance on safeguarding and working with young people, including knowledge of the responsibilities of schools and other agencies
• Ability to work with a range of people with the aim of ensuring the safety and welfare of children
• Awareness of local and national agencies that provide support for children and their families
• Excellent record keeping skills and attention to detail, in order to produce reports, take minutes of meetings, and document safeguarding concerns
• Good IT skills
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build effective working relationships with staff and other stakeholders
Personal qualities:
• Commitment to ensuring the safety and welfare of children
• Commitment to upholding and promoting the ethos and values of the school
• Integrity, honesty and fairness
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritise effectively
• Commitment to maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Commitment to equality
We withhold the right to close the advert ahead of this time and hold interviews as we receive applications
What the school offers its staff
Shipston High School is a high-achieving 11-16 school in attractive rural surroundings.
Shipston High School has a unique school atmosphere, arising from our high expectations and our student-centred ethos. It is an ethos in which our teachers are able to focus on the wellbeing and academic progress of our young people. As a result, both students and teachers flourish.
Our students are our best advertisement. They are motivated, hard working and well behaved. In July 2023, Ofsted noted that ‘pupils are mature, polite and considerate of others’, further observing that ‘Pupils show positive attitudes towards learning’.
Commitment to safeguarding
Shipston High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Qualifications and training:
• GCSE (or equivalent)
• Relevant safeguarding qualifications
Experience:
• Successful leadership and management experience in a school or other relevant organisation
• Experience of managing safeguarding in a school or other relevant organisation.
• Demonstrable evidence of developing and implementing strategies to help children and their families
• Experience of handling large amounts of sensitive data and upholding the principles of confidentiality
Skills and knowledge:
• Expert knowledge of legislation and guidance on safeguarding and working with young people, including knowledge of the responsibilities of schools and other agencies
• Ability to work with a range of people with the aim of ensuring the safety and welfare of children
• Awareness of local and national agencies that provide support for children and their families
• Excellent record keeping skills and attention to detail, in order to produce reports, take minutes of meetings, and document safeguarding concerns
• Good IT skills
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build effective working relationships with staff and other stakeholders
Personal qualities:
• Commitment to ensuring the safety and welfare of children
• Commitment to upholding and promoting the ethos and values of the school
• Integrity, honesty and fairness
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritise effectively
• Commitment to maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Commitment to equality
We withhold the right to close the advert ahead of this time and hold interviews as we receive applications
What the school offers its staff
Shipston High School is a high-achieving 11-16 school in attractive rural surroundings.
Shipston High School has a unique school atmosphere, arising from our high expectations and our student-centred ethos. It is an ethos in which our teachers are able to focus on the wellbeing and academic progress of our young people. As a result, both students and teachers flourish.
Our students are our best advertisement. They are motivated, hard working and well behaved. In July 2023, Ofsted noted that ‘pupils are mature, polite and considerate of others’, further observing that ‘Pupils show positive attitudes towards learning’.
Commitment to safeguarding
Shipston High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.