Deputy Headteacher / Student Welfare Manager DSL

talents.aefe.fr; Gould's Green; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in the United Kingdom is seeking a Deputy Headteacher responsible for overall student welfare, safeguarding, and inspection framework guidance. The role includes line managing the pastoral team and ensuring compliance with statutory guidelines. The successful candidate will promote mental health initiatives and train staff, overseeing various wellbeing provisions for a diverse student body. This is an opportunity to significantly impact student welfare in a vibrant school community.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of safeguarding children and welfare policies.
• Experience in supporting mental health initiatives in schools.
• Strong leadership skills in managing teams effectively.

Responsibilities

• Maintain up-to-date safeguarding practices and train staff accordingly.
• Line manage the pastoral and medical team.
• Oversee the development of mental health provisions.

Skills

Leadership

Child safeguarding

Mental health awareness

Communication

Training staff

Job description

Overview

Position to be filled: Septembre 2026

Role: DeputyHeadteacher with overall responsibility for Student Welfare, Inspectionframework guidance and DSL responsibilities.

Comply with statutory guidance listed under the Children Act 1989 & 2004 and the annual Keeping Children Safe in Education updates. Acting as a source of support, advice and expertise to the school on matters of safety, safeguarding and welfare. Oversee the development of effective mental health and wellbeing provision in line with the government guidance for senior mental health leads. Oversee the RSE/RE curriculum and ensure Independent Schools Standards framework compliance.

The Lycée Francais is an all through (3-18 years old) school, comprising four primary schools and one secondary school spread over four sites. Both French and British curricula are offered to some 3500 pupils.

Main duties

• Keep up to date with Independent Schools Standards and train staff accordingly
• Line manage the pastoral and medical team
• Co-ordinate the Safeguarding Team
• Work closely with SEND professionals to ensure that children with disabilities are safe and staff are appropriately trained to identify signs of abuse and/or neglect in SEND children
• Ensuring that safeguarding updates and topics are communicated to all staff via newsletters/emails and workshops and statutory safeguarding training
• Acting as a source of support, advice and expertise to staff on matters of safety and safeguarding and when deciding whether to make a referral by liaising with the relevant agencies
• Creating and updating risk assessments around child on child abuse, harmful sexual behaviour, contextualised safeguarding
• Attends senior mental health lead training to acquire new knowledge and maintain an accurate understanding of the landscape of best practice in school mental health and wellbeing
• Work closely with other members of school leadership team on the development and implementation of school\'s approach to mental health and wellbeing. Where necessary linking the approach to other policies and processes, for example safeguarding, behaviour, attendance and attainment
• Coordinate the school’s provision for pupil’s mental health needs, including oversight of interventions where they are being delivered by staff
• Develop cross curricular approaches that support pupils through the promotion and protection of wellbeing
• Develop training and teaching tools to aid in the delivery of our mental health and wellbeing objectives and responsibilities to staff members, ensuring a consistent school wide approach
• To oversee the ongoing embedding and implementation of the RE/RSE curriculum across the school