Deputy Director of Safeguarding

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Ark Full time
About the Role

The Deputy Head of Safeguarding will work alongside the Head of Safeguarding to provide strategic and operational leadership to enable Ark schools to keep children safe.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure all principals have an appropriate safeguarding management structure in their school
  • Support the DSL network to ensure all Ark schools are compliant with statutory and legal requirements
  • Oversee annual updates of Online Safety, Child Protection and Safeguarding, and Anti-Bullying policies
  • Conduct annual in-school audits to ensure safeguarding procedures are properly conducted
  • Provide key data and insights on safeguarding across the network
  • Lead the DSLs as a specialist peer group, ensuring best practice is shared
  • Support schools to promote early intervention and leverage school to school support
  • Provide consultancy advice to school leaders and DSLs
  • Manage complex cases, in line with the network's escalation procedures
Requirements
  • Qualified at least to first degree level, or equivalent
  • Relevant professional qualifications 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 collaborating with colleagues
  • Proven track record of successfully embedding safeguarding developments into policy and practice
  • Effective coach and developer of others, capable of building and sustaining a community of practice
  • Ability to support schools with the triangulation of pastoral 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
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.

We're a network of 39 schools, educating around 30,000 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference. We want to change the lives of children everywhere, not just in our own schools.

We create and incubate Ventures designed not only to help pupils in Ark schools, but also to improve education systems.

Benefits
  • 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with each year of service up to 30 days after 3-years' service
  • Full office closure between Christmas and New Year
  • Hybrid working, with currently two days a week in our state-of-the-art office in West London working alongside colleagues
  • Regular social events, monthly free breakfast, and daily fruit
  • A flexible approach to working with understanding and consideration for work life balance and personal commitments
  • Access to high-quality professional learning throughout your career
  • Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering savings from over 3,000 major retailers

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