Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead at Bodmin College

Bodmin College; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Bodmin College is seeking an experienced Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead to lead safeguarding and child protection within the school. You will work with senior leaders, coordinate referrals, and support vulnerable learners while ensuring robust policies and training are embedded across the school.

The role requires sound judgement, excellent organisation and the ability to handle sensitive situations calmly.

Qualifications

• Experience of safeguarding leadership and managing referrals.
• Ability to work with families, staff and external agencies.
• Strong professional judgement and organisation under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Take day-to-day responsibility for safeguarding and child protection.
• Coordinate support for vulnerable learners and manage referrals.
• Ensure safeguarding policies, training and record-keeping are robust and compliant.

Skills

Safeguarding experience

Pastoral support

Stakeholder liaison

Education

Child safeguarding qualification

Job description

About this Role

We are seeking an experienced and committed Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead to join Bodmin College and play a key role in ensuring that safeguarding remains at the heart of school life.

Working closely with senior leaders and the wider safeguarding team, you will take day‑to‑day responsibility for safeguarding and child protection, managing referrals, coordinating support for vulnerable learners and working effectively with families, staff and external agencies. You will also help ensure that safeguarding policies, procedures, training and record‑keeping are robust, compliant and consistently embedded across the school.

This is a highly relational role requiring sound professional judgement, excellent organisation and the ability to remain calm when managing sensitive and complex situations. You will be a trusted source of advice and support for colleagues, while ensuring that the voice, welfare and educational outcomes of children remain central to decision‑making.

We are looking for someone who is approachable, empathetic, resilient and highly organised, with experience of working with children in a pastoral setting and as part of a safeguarding team. You will share Bodmin College's commitment to inclusion, high expectations and ensuring every learner has the opportunity to thrive.

our school

At Bodmin College, our mission is "to provide a great quality of education so that every child can live a life full of choice and boundless opportunities."

We believe in the power of strong relationships- between students, their families, staff and the wider community- and that we become stronger by learning with and from each other.

Bodmin College is on a transformational journey to provide an inclusive and ambitious education for all learners.

In the last 12 months we:

• Improved A8 to be in line with national standards moving from 27th in Cornwall to 11th
• Are the top 10 school nationally for improvement in English A8
• Reduced fixed term suspensions by 68%
• Improved attendance by 3.61% and have been recently recognised as a high performing school within our similar schools

Our students are incredible and deserve the very best staff who are driven, compassionate relentlessly positive in what we are seeking to achieve together. You will be joining a team who work collegiately together with a common purpose to achieve our goals.

Bodmin College is a warm, ambitious and forward‑looking school community in the heart of Cornwall. We are part of Cornwall Education Learning Trust which means we have a strong culture of professional growth: we invest in our staff, encourage reflective practice and support you to become a great practitioner.

We have exceptionally high expectations for student behaviour and support our teachers to be confident to deliver lessons where students continue to learn, contribute positively and make progress in their learning.