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Are you ready to provide a high-quality, responsive service to students faced with welfare and safeguarding issues, make a lasting impact on students’ lives and help shape their future success? Join our dedicated and passionate Safeguarding Team at Ellis Guilford School.
About Our School
Ellis Guilford School is a growing and thriving larger-than-average secondary school with a clear mission "to ensure that children attending our school have a better chance of success". With a recently graded "Good" Ofsted in 2023, Ellis Guilford is at an extremely exciting point in its journey. We deliver a broad curriculum and have an extensive co-curricular offer to support our children to become confident, independent and balanced individuals and to allow all pupils to exceed beyond their potential. We do this by putting our values of equality, integrity and ambition at the core of everything we do.
About the Safeguarding Team
The Safeguarding Team at Ellis Guilford School is dedicated to delivering effective safeguarding and child protection, including supporting students’ emotional and social well-being alongside their academic needs. The team consists of one DSL (SLT) and two Safeguarding Officers and offers a range of interventions and strategies to help keep students safe at school, in the home, online and in the local community.
About You
As a Safeguarding Officer at Ellis Guilford School, you will bring a compassionate and proactive approach to supporting students’ safety and well-being, fostering a positive and inclusive school environment, and collaborating with staff and external agencies to address students’ diverse needs. Our ideal candidate will:
- Have experience in managing and triaging a wide range of safeguarding concerns reported by staff and students using online platforms such as CPOMS.
- Have experience in working with local-authority safeguarding partners, e.g., social workers, CAMHS, CGL, and the Police.
- Be able to positively influence and persuade students towards the school’s vision, values and ethos whilst being a role model with a professional approach.
- Be student-focused, recognising the importance of educational achievement in transforming lives and managing student behaviour positively in line with academy policies.
- Work effectively as part of a team, use initiative, follow instructions, remain calm under pressure, and possess a 'can do’ and 'will do’ attitude.
Hours: 37 hours per week, term time, 41 weeks per year.
Requirements
To apply for the Safeguarding Officer opportunity, you must hold:
- GCSE English and Maths at Grade C and above or equivalent.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Successful recent experience working with young people in a safeguarding role.
- Experience in effectively resolving stakeholder concerns, including those raised by parents.
About Creative Education Trust
Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 14,500 children and young people.
We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunities for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and proactive thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.
CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development
CET is committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences, including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching, and have regular network meetings across the Trust.
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure on our website.
Next Steps
For further information and to apply for this role, please visit our website via the Apply button.
Closing date: 9.00am on Wednesday 11th December 2024.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive suitable applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. We will hold interviews as soon as we have received enough applications from suitably qualified applicants. If a successful appointment is not made, then we will repeat the process.
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe; we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.
All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview.
The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references and, where appropriate, a Prohibition from Teaching search.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.
