Designated Safeguarding Officer
| Posting date: | 19 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £30,471 - £32,242 (actual £29,126 - £30,819) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 February 2026 |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon, EX4 4JS |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | eTeach UK Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1530038 |
Summary
Caring but resilient? Great with teenagers? Meticulous and professional? You might be the next addition to our outstanding safeguarding team. Your role will be to work with students, parents, and external agencies to make sure our young people are safe. You’ll need to be caring and diligent, with great attention to detail and outstanding interpersonal skills. You’ll also need to be resilient with a sound understanding of professional boundaries.
Your role will be to work with students, tutors, teachers, social services, parents and other external agencies to ensure we’re doing everything we reasonably can to keep our young people safe. This will involve:
maintaining a presence in staffrooms to provide advice and get involved early with safeguarding concerns
meeting students to provide advice, assess risks, refer them to relevant support or involve other agencies to put a support plan in place
keeping accurate records
collaboratively working with the team to create college wide resources and staff training
to attend multi-agency meetings (e.g. EH, CIN, and CP) relating to our young people
Ambition, Collaboration, Energy. These are our values. Watch this short video to learn more. And see what our staff have to say here.Benefits
We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddleboarding. Read more on our careers page. Applying for the role
If you’re reading this on our website, click on the apply button, below.
If you’re reading this advert on another site, visit our vacancies page.The closing date for receipt of completed applications 1st February 2026 at midnight.
Interviews will be held in Exeter on 17th February 2026
No CVs or agencies please.
Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality.
We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications, related exceptions and further information.
Your role will be to work with students, tutors, teachers, social services, parents and other external agencies to ensure we’re doing everything we reasonably can to keep our young people safe. This will involve:
maintaining a presence in staffrooms to provide advice and get involved early with safeguarding concerns
meeting students to provide advice, assess risks, refer them to relevant support or involve other agencies to put a support plan in place
keeping accurate records
collaboratively working with the team to create college wide resources and staff training
to attend multi-agency meetings (e.g. EH, CIN, and CP) relating to our young people
Ambition, Collaboration, Energy. These are our values. Watch this short video to learn more. And see what our staff have to say here.Benefits
We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddleboarding. Read more on our careers page. Applying for the role
If you’re reading this on our website, click on the apply button, below.
If you’re reading this advert on another site, visit our vacancies page.The closing date for receipt of completed applications 1st February 2026 at midnight.
Interviews will be held in Exeter on 17th February 2026
No CVs or agencies please.
Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality.
We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications, related exceptions and further information.