Safeguarding & Welfare Manager (Deputy DSL)

The Winsford Academy; Winsford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A local educational institution in Winsford seeks a dedicated individual to enhance support for vulnerable students. Responsibilities include acting as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and coordinating support. Ideal candidates will have experience working with children or in social care. The post plays a crucial role in ensuring student welfare and safety. Strong communication and resilience are essential for success in this role, contributing to the overall wellbeing of students.

Benefits

High-quality professional development

Access to pension schemes with employer contributions

26-31 days holiday entitlement

Free onsite parking

Cycle to work scheme

Confidential employee counselling helpline

Qualifications

• Previous experience of working with children and young people is essential.
• Experience in an education setting or social care sector is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate support for vulnerable students and families.
• Act as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Plan programs to enhance student safety and wellbeing.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Resilience

Job description

About the role

Under the direction of the Designated Safeguarding Lead this post will work closely with parents, carers and school staff to enhance the support available to our most vulnerable students to ensure that they overcome barriers to learning and achieve their full potential. The successful candidate will possess resilience, excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a range of colleagues and multi‑agencies to safeguard student welfare. The role will include acting as the deputy designated safeguarding lead (DDSL) and representing the school at Child Protection and other safeguarding meetings, and planning and delivering programmes of support to further student safety and wellbeing.

Responsibilities

• Co‑ordinate appropriate support for our vulnerable students, parents and families by building strong working relationships with outside agencies and further developing our own policies and procedures for safeguarding.
• Act as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and represent the school at Child Protection and other safeguarding meetings.
• Plan and deliver programmes of support to enhance student safety and wellbeing.

Qualifications

Previous experience of working with children and young people is essential, ideally in a similar role within an education setting. We would also be interested in applications from colleagues in the social care sector.

Why work for the Halliard Trust

We educate over 5,000 children and employ 900 teaching and support staff to deliver our vision to ensure every student leaves school with the values, skills, qualities and aptitudes to thrive in society combined with the highest possible learning outcomes. Our core values of Respect, Integrity and Optimism underpin everything we do. Formerly named The Fallibroome Trust, we have engaged with all of our stakeholders to choose a new name and are now called the Halliard Trust, a school‑led multi‑academy trust that encourages its schools to work with a high level of autonomy and keep their own ‘personality’ and close ties to their local communities – always underpinned by strong support from the Trust leadership and the school improvement and business teams. We offer a wide‑ranging programme of professional development for all employees to support those taking their first steps in education to those working as exceptional leaders. The people you work with will support and motivate you in achieving your ambitions. Our exceptional teachers, support staff and leaders come from a wide range of backgrounds, but they all share a deeply held commitment to give our students an outstanding education in an inspiring and happy school environment. The Trust has grown organically to three secondary and eight primary schools based in Cheshire. The Trust operates from its head office in Macclesfield, Cheshire, where the School Improvement and Business Support teams are based.

Benefits of working with the Trust

• High‑quality professional learning & development at all stages of your career
• Access to the Teachers' Pension or Local Government Pension Schemes with a generous employer contribution rate
• Support staff have 26 days holiday entitlement rising to 31 days with service
• Free onsite parking at all sites
• Cycle to work scheme
• Confidential employee counselling helpline

How to Apply

We ask all applicants to apply through SAMpeople Recruit/Face‑Ed; our recruitment software. This enables us to efficiently carry out our safer recruitment checks, but we recognise it can take some time for the applicant. The good news is, you will only need to register for Face‑Ed once to apply for any role in the Halliard Trust's 11 schools. Our tips for a painless process:

• Because SAMpeople Recruit is cloud‑based software, it is possible for you to experience a break in connection and you won't necessarily know about it straight away. We therefore strongly recommend that you prepare your main application content in a different package like MS Word or Notepad and copy and paste it into your application form in the relevant sections.
• If you get a message saying "Validation Error" it isn't a software fault. It means you have entered data in a format that wasn't expected and it is causing a problem with saving. This might mean you have entered words in a box that expects numbers, for example.