Senior Designated Safeguarding Lead

**Salary**:
Grade 5 (£41,511 - £52,805)

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
April 2025

24 December 2024

**Job overview**:
**Senior Designated Safeguarding Lead**

**Salary: Grade 5 (£41,511 - £52,805)**

**Hours of Work: Full Time**

**Location**:_St Edmund Campion Catholic School_**

**Required for: April 2025**

**The St John Paul II Multi Academy is a highly successful Catholic Multi Academy encompassing seven primary schools and two secondary schools. Our schools are based in Sutton Coldfield, Erdington and Aston.**

The ethos of St John Paul II Multi Academy is Catholic and was founded by the Catholic Church to provide education for children of Catholic families.

As a Catholic multi academy, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. As a Catholic multi academy, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of every one of our school’s activities. It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all staff within the multi academy. We therefore hope that all staff will give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the St John Paul II Multi Academy.

St Edmund Campion is a hugely successful and popular school with excellent
- pupil outcomes
- Pupil behaviour is excellent and staff wellbeing and workload is considered a priority. The school is well recognised for the support and care provided for pupils and for the excellent safeguarding practices.
- ** Very well organised and meticulous in their record keeping**:

- ** Understanding of the position of senior leader as role model for staff and pupils, holding staff to account as necessary**:

- ** Knowledgeable of all matters around safeguarding and Keeping Children Safe in Education**:

- ** Able to disseminate key information to all stakeholders including regular training of staff**:

- ** Knowledgeable of agencies around safeguarding**

We are committed to the development of all staff to be of their very best and our most recent Ofsted report graded the school good, with an outstanding Post-16 provision.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

**Deadline for Applications: 12.00 Friday 24th January 2025**

**With interviews taking place soon after this date**

**About**St Edmund Campion Catholic School**:
**St Edmund Campion Catholic School**
- Sutton Road, Erdington, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B23 5XA
- United Kingdom

+44 121 464 7700

**Mission Statement**:
St. Edmund Campion School exists as part of a partnership of home, parish and school, which together educate and pass on the Faith to our children. We aim to assist parents in their God given role as educators by providing a Catholic secondary education.

As a Catholic school, our aim is to develop a community which is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit. It is a community based on love, trust and respect, in which young people develop as fully integrated persons in Christ.

Together we strive for every member of our community to achieve their full potential, academically, personally and spiritually in the atmosphere of high quality personal relationships.

**BASIC SCHOOL RULE**

The basic rule is the fundamental commandment of Our Lord,

**_‘Love God and Love your Neighbour’ _**

expressed in day to day action in school through the offering of our prayer and work to God and courtesy and consideration to others.