Safeguarding Officer

1 week ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds City Council Full time

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**Post Reference**: 2323
**Academy**:Leeds City Academy
**Job Title: Safeguarding Officer**
**Grade**:SO2 - Actual Salary £30,618 to £32,306
**Hours**: 37 hours per week, Term Time Only plus 20 days
**Accountable to**: Vice Principal Student Culture & Designated Safeguarding Lead

This is an extremely exciting time to be joining Leeds City Academy, one of the **most rapidly improving schools** within the Leeds area and county of West Yorkshire. We are an 11-16 academy and one of four schools within White Rose Academies Trust, a trust recognised nationally for its ground-breaking and transformational impact on the lives of the young people it serves. The academy had a Section 5 Inspection in May 2019 achieving an **overall ‘**_Good_**’ judgement with Leadership and Management judged as ‘**_Outstanding_**’.**

Our highly motivated and talented students are at the very centre of everything we do and the shared mission of all our stakeholders is to work ‘_In Partnership’_ in securing the aspirations and ambitions of every one of our young people. Our academy is a unique and truly inspirational place to work, enhanced by our wonderful students who come from a diverse range of cultures, heritage and experiences; a significant proportion of students speak English as an additional language.

Our CPD training programme is highly respected by staff at the academy and is further enhanced by the various opportunities for professional development in all sectors.

**Role**:

- To take lead responsibility for all safeguarding and child protection matters arising across Leeds City Academy, supporting all staff in dealing with any child protection/vulnerable children concerns that may arise.
- Refer cases of suspected abuse to the local authority children’s social care as required.
- Ensure the safeguarding systems and processes across the academy are consistent, efficient and rigorous in approach.
- Assess the training needs of staff and implement and maintain an ongoing training programme for all staff including induction training for all newly appointed colleagues.
- Ensure that all students within the academy are safe and well looked after.
- Line manage key Safeguarding and Child Protection Officers for supervision and daily safeguarding practice.
- To co-ordinate and signpost support and intervention for families in relation to housing, transport, benefits in order to improve the educational outcomes and attendance of children.

NB: All post-holders at the White Rose Academies Trust are responsible for improving the outcomes for learners and upholding the ethos of the academies. Keeping Children Safe in Education and the guidance for Safer Working Practices directs the work of every adult working at or associated with White Rose Academies Trust.
- ** Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Work as the Safeguarding Officer, updating the CPOMS child protection database, ensuring that all reported incidents are dealt with efficiently.
- Liaise with Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) to ensure the academy’s child protection policy is reviewed at least annually. To advise on the implementation of this policy and to ensure that Governors are kept up to date.
- Maintain links with the Local Authority Safeguarding Childrens Board to ensure staff are aware of training opportunities and the local policies on safeguarding.
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of all students in the academy who have inclusion needs, sharing information where appropriate with class teachers and other colleagues within the academy.
- Where children leave the school either in year or post 16, you will ensure their child protection file is transferred to their new school or college efficiently and securely in line with LCA Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.
- Act as the first point of contact for parents, student, teaching and support staff and external agencies in all matters relating to the Prevent duty.
- Liaise with DSL, DDSL and Senior Leaders to co-ordinate and raise awareness of Prevent duty procedures across the academy.
- Refer cases to the channel programme where there is a radicalisation concern.
- Make referrals to the police where a crime may have been committed which involves a child.
- Understand the unique risk associated with online safety and implement preventative actions to ensure students are safe online.
- Regularly monitor Smoothwall updates and follow safeguarding procedures to ensure students are kept safe.
- Have a working knowledge of how local authorities conduct a child protection case conference and a child protection review conference and be able to attend and contribute to these effectively when required to do so.
- Be alert to the specific needs of children in need, those with special educational needs and young carers.
- Attend Looked After reviews and contribute to the completion of

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