Deputy Head of Safeguarding

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Ark Schools Full time

**Deputy Head of Safeguarding**

**Location**:Ark Schools Central

**Job Type**:Operations

**Posted**:16/02/2024

**Closing date**:11/03/2024

**Closing time**:10:00

**Deputy Head of Safeguarding**

**Location**:West London - currently operating an agile working policy with two core days (Mon and Weds) in the office with regular travel to schools in the Ark network (Birmingham, Hastings, London and Portsmouth)

**Contract**:Permanent

**Pattern**:Full Time (standard hours 9am - 5.30pm)

**Closing date**:11/03/2024 at 9am

**1**st** round interviews**:w/c 11/03/2024

**2nd round interviews**: w/c 25/03/2024

**Salary**:£65,000 to £75,000 (depending on experience)

**About the role**:
A new role in our growing team, the Deputy Head of Safeguarding will work alongside the Head of Safeguarding to provide the strategic and operational leadership to enable Ark schools to keep children safe.

You will support the strategic leadership of safeguarding across the network by providing key data, insights and termly analysis reports using our safeguarding management platforms (CPOMS and SENSO).

You will support the Head of Safeguarding on all aspects of safeguarding strategy, policy and procedure across the Ark network, collaborating with in-school safeguarding leads (Designated Safeguarding Leads - DSLs) who are accountable for ensuring proper procedure, process and safeguarding cultures are implemented in school.

The Deputy Head of Safeguarding, alongside the Head of Safeguarding, will work to grow capability across the network, ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of their responsibilities, are provided with suitable training and that systems exist which enable discharge of those responsibilities.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Ensuring that all principals satisfy their obligation to have an appropriate safeguarding management structure in their school
- Supporting the DSL network to ensure that all Ark schools are compliant with statutory and legal requirements, providing leadership so that the letter and spirit of regulations are understood and implemented
- Overseeing annual updates of the Online Safety, Child Protection and Safeguarding, and Anti-Bullying policies so that all schools in the network have fully compliant policies
- Conducting annual in-school audits to ensure that safeguarding procedures are properly conducted, that schools are compliant with legal and Ofsted requirements as well as assessing the culture of safeguarding across the network
- Provide key data and insights on safeguarding across the network This includes the strategic oversight of our safeguarding management platform, CPOMS, as well as our monitoring and filtering platform, SENSO
- Leading the DSLs as a specialist peer group, ensuring that best practice is shared and that DSLs across the network are supported in their professional development and can access professional supervision
- Supporting schools to promote early intervention, leveraging school to school support to maximise learning and impact and maximising capability building across the network
- Provide consultancy advice to school leaders and DSLs alongside the Head of Safeguarding and Director of Pastoral and Inclusion
- Manage complex cases, in line with the network’s escalation procedures

**Key Requirements**:

- Qualified at least to first degree level, or equivalent
- Relevant professional qualifications (e.g. Level 3 Safeguarding, Mental Health First Aid) with demonstrable commitment to ongoing professional development
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is preferable
- Track record of strategic and operational senior leadership of safeguarding in a secondary school setting
- Knowledge of schools and a deep understanding of student needs
- Comprehensive knowledge of safeguarding legislation, guidance, best practice and services for vulnerable children and young people
- Experience of developing safeguarding policies and skill in collaborating with colleagues at all levels to build ownership of this policy
- Proven track record of successfully embedding safeguarding developments into policy and practice, supported by accurate and reliable advice
- Effective coach and developer of others, capable of building and sustaining a community of practice
- Ability to support schools with the triangulation of pastoral (behaviour, SEND, Attendance, Safeguarding) data to drive their strategic work.
- Ability to interpret safeguarding requirements and responses in specific circumstances
- Flexibility and adaptability to respond to changing needs
- Effective team worker who enjoys collaboration with colleagues across the network

**View the full job description and person specification **here**

**About Ark**

We’re an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. In the UK, we’re a network of 39 schools, educating around 30,000 pupils in areas

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