Safeguarding & Attendance Officer - The Beaconsfield School

Buckinghamshire Council; Beaconsfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A local educational authority in Beaconsfield is seeking a Safeguarding & Attendance Officer to join the school's pastoral team. The role involves promoting the safety and welfare of students, managing case interventions, and working with external agencies. The ideal candidate should have knowledge of safeguarding practices and excellent ICT skills. This is a full-time position with a salary between £30,361 and £32,594 annually.

Benefits

Relocation assistance allowance

Qualifications

• High level of confidentiality and integrity due to nature of safeguarding.
• Understanding of up-to-date legislation and guidance of safeguarding.
• Proven organisational skills and ability to form appropriate relationships.

Responsibilities

• Promote the safety and welfare of children at all times.
• Manage cases on a day-to-day basis to improve mental health and attendance.
• Liaise with external agencies for student support.

Skills

Experience and knowledge of safeguarding

Excellent ICT skills

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Safeguarding & Attendance Officer - The Beaconsfield School

Location: Beaconsfield

We are seeking to recruit a Safeguarding & Attendance Officer to join the school's pastoral team at The Beaconsfield School.

Relocation assistance allowance subject to eligibility.

Danes Educational Trust is a multi-academy trust working to develop optimistic, resilient learners and valued, empowered staff through local, national and global partnerships which comprises of seven secondary schools and six primary schools across Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

Required: start as soon as possible.

Salary: £30,361.00 - £32,594.00 Annually (FTE), Plus Fringe

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time/Part-time

Closing date: 9.00am on Wednesday 8th October 2025.

Interviews to be held: Interviews will be held as soon as possible after the closing date.

About us

We have 870 students, with a growing Sixth Form and just fewer than 100 staff at the school.

As a school we are creative in our curriculum and we treat each child as an individual; because of this, learning and progress is at the centre of everything we do. We work towards making the selective system irrelevant.

The school benefits from good facilities including a purpose built drama studio, interactive whiteboards in each classroom, specialist technology classrooms and a sports hall. We also have a large set of playing fields, a school garden and renewed designated Learning Support area for students with special educational needs. We are a well-equipped school that gives our students every opportunity to engage in their learning. Our school environment is maintained to the highest standard and students are expected to respect this at all times.

• To ensure that appropriate arrangements for keeping children and young people safe are in place at The Beaconsfield School.
• To promote the safety and welfare of children and young people in the school at all times.
• To work with staff and parents/carers to support students who present with safeguarding concerns, issues related to attendance, mental health and wellbeing.
• To manage cases on a day-to-day basis, facilitating interventions with individual students, in school, to improve mental health, and/or support effective attendance.
• To refer students to and liaise with external agencies as appropriate in order to access external support, write confidential reports and support plans and attend case meetings in a professional capacity as required.
• To provide professional support and advice to the Pastoral Team and contribute to the development of a strategic approach to the management of safeguarding, mental health and wellbeing provision at the school.
• To contribute to the effective functioning of the faculty as a team.
• To maintain high professional and academic standards, remain up to date in terms of subject knowledge and pedagogical techniques.

About you

• High level of confidentiality and integrity due to nature of safeguarding internally and externally and have a confident, diplomatic approach and awareness of the important of confidentiality.
• Experience and knowledge of safeguarding.
• Understanding of the importance of up-to-date knowledge or legislation and guidance of safeguarding and child protection.
• Excellent ICT skills to create trackers, spreadsheets, data capture, report writing etc.
• High level of accuracy, organisation, and effective time management to ensure reliable capture and processing of information.
• Imperative to be personable and have positive working relationships with colleagues and parent body.
• To communicate effectively and have excellent interpersonal skills.
• Commitment to becoming involved in the extracurricular activities of the school.
• Proven organisational skills.
• The ability to show initiative within the framework of a strong and supportive team.
• An outstanding performer in the classroom.
• A willingness to utilise and develop departmental teaching resources.
• The motivation to work with children and young people.
• The ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people.
• A positive attitude to the use of authority and maintaining discipline.
• A willingness to take part in and support departmental visits.

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.