Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

3 weeks ago

Derby, United Kingdom Landau Forte Charitable Trust Full time

**Our opportunity for you**

We have a job vacancy for Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (non-teaching post).

Reporting directly to the Designated Safeguarding Lead, this is a full time, non-teaching role. The key role of the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) is to deputise for the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and Senior Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (SDDSL) in taking responsibility for safeguarding across the College. The roll will be lined managed by the Senior Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.

**Key information**
- **Contract**: Permanent, 52 weeks a year
- **Start date**: ASAP
- **Salary**: £28,000
- **Closing Date**: 26 February 2023

**Person specification**

The person we are looking for should:

- Be creative and hardworking.
- Have excellent personal organisational skills.
- Be adaptable with a good sense of humour and able to take the initiative.
- Be a very good team worker with the capacity to build relationships at all levels across the organisation.
- Be proactive.
- Be able to work successfully as part of a highly effective team.

Qualifications and experience:

- Relevant qualifications (both formal and through appropriate experience) to meet the challenge of the appointment.
- Excellent in-depth knowledge of the development of young people

**Job description**

**Duties of role will include**:
**Management of referrals**

The DDSL is expected to, under the direction of the DSL/ SDDSL, or in their absence:

- Refer cases of suspected abuse to the local authority children’s social care as required and support staff who make referrals to the local authority children’s social care.
- Refer cases to the Channel programme where there is a radicalisation concern as required and support staff who make referrals to the Channel programme.
- Refer cases where a crime may have been committed to the Police as required.
- Manage and track a systematic overview of concerns about students in the College, determining jointly with the DSL when to escalate or de-escalate thresholds of support.

**Working with others**
- To support the DSL/ SDDSL to provide regular updates and information to the Executive Team and Extended Pastoral Team (Heads of Year, SENCO, Thrive Team, Personal Tutors).
- To attend the scheduled College safeguarding meetings, including the DSL/DDSL meeting and Pastoral team meeting.
- As required, liaise with relevant Social Workers, Multi Agency Team members and other relevant outside agencies who are working with the College’s students and their families.
- Liaise with staff on matters of safety and safeguarding and when deciding whether to make a referral by liaising with relevant agencies.
- Act as a source of support, advice, and expertise for staff, including coordinating relevant training for the staff body.
- Coordinate and attend relevant professional meetings within and outside the College, including Team Around the Child and Team Around the Family meetings where appropriate.

**Undertaking training**
- The DDSL should undergo training to provide them with the knowledge and skills required to carry out the role. This training is at the equivalent level and standard as the DSL and should be updated at least every two years.
- The DDSL should undertake Prevent awareness training.
- In addition to the formal training set out above, their knowledge and skills should be refreshed (this might be via e-bulletins, meeting other DSL/SDDSL, or simply taking time to read and digest safeguarding developments) at regular intervals, as required, but at least annually, to allow them to understand and keep up with any developments relevant to their role so they are able to, alongside or under instruction from the DSL:

- Understand the assessment process for providing early help and intervention, for example through locally agreed common and shared assessment processes such as early help assessments.
- Have a working knowledge of how local authorities conduct a child protection case conference and a child protection review conference and can attend and contribute to these effectively when required to do so.
- Ensure each member of staff has access to and understands the College’s Safeguarding Policy and procedures, especially new and part time staff.
- Be alert to the specific needs of groups of students, including but not exclusively, children in need, those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), those Looked After and those recently adopted from Local Authority care and young carers.
- Be able to keep detailed, accurate, secure written records of concerns and referrals.
- Understand and support the school with regards to the requirements of the Prevent duty and be able to provide advice and support to staff on protecting young people from the risk of radicalisation.
- Obtain access to resources and attend any relevant or refresher training courses
- Encourage a culture of listening to young people and taking account of their wishes and feeli

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