Safeguarding Officer

**Are you committed to promoting the welfare of children and protecting them from harm?**

We are currently looking for a diligent and professional safeguarding officer to work across our academy. You will be involved in supporting safeguarding and child protection procedures across the Trust and ensuring the implementation of all statutory duties.

As someone who is well versed in keeping children safe in Education, you will drive the vision, ethos and policies of the Trust, ensuring all academies meet statutory safeguarding requirements.

**In return for your skills, knowledge and experience, we can offer you**:

- High quality continuous professional development and support for your career progression
- A range of innovative support for health and wellbeing, including an Employee Assistance Programme that provides staff with 24/7 helpline support, as well as counselling sessions and life management advice
- Automatic annual pay progression
- Flexible working opportunities from day 1
- Discounts on retail, travel and many more Our Cycle 2 Work scheme and charity giving

**About Robsack Wood Primary Academy**

Oftsed grade: Outstanding (2010)

Robsack Wood is a school for 4 to 11 year olds in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. We promote personal achievement for all our pupils and provide creative learning opportunities so that every child succeeds. Our pupils enjoy an exceptional learning environment including outdoor learning in our Forest School, a large grassed playing field, adjacent woodlands, garden areas and animal areas with chickens and ducks. We also host a nursery for children aged from 3 months.

We hold the Arts Council Artsmark Award and East Sussex Quality Mark for Inclusion. We can offer you:

- a calm, positive and innovative learning environment.
- excellent facilities and resources for staff and pupils
**About the University of Brighton Academies Trust**

The University of Brighton Academies Trust is the fifth largest multi-academy trust in the south east, with 15 infant, primary and secondary schools all graded by Ofsted as Good or Outstanding. We educate 7,700 children aged 3 months to 16 years and employ 1,200 staff across East and West Sussex.

Excellence, innovation and integrity are the values that guide us. We work collaboratively to help our pupils, and everyone connected with our academies achieve excellence. By working together, sharing insights and best practice our schools support each other to improve. Read more about our vision and values

The University of Brighton is our sponsor. We work closely with the University’s School of Education: in 2019 it was judged as Outstanding by Ofsted for all Initial Teacher Training and was awarded the Student Union’s school of the year.
**Benefits we offer**

We value our staff, investing in their training and development at all stages of their careers.

We place particular importance on providing opportunities for you to learn and grow, with a package that includes an annual personal development day, job-related apprenticeships to enhance your skillset, open access online training courses, and scholarships run in collaboration with the University of Brighton. And when the time is right for you to take the next step in your career, we can help you to find the right opportunity in one of our 15 schools

The other benefits we offer Benefits, including our generous public sector pension schemes and family friendly policies, are designed to support you with work-life balance, wellbeing and the financial aspects of life.

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**Find out more**

Download the job description and person specification below for more information about the role.

Interview: 25th Feb