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Safeguarding Officer

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 01 Gorffennaf 2025
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.

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