Regional Safeguarding and Child Protection Officer

1 month ago


West Midlands, United Kingdom Star Academies Full time

Do you want to join a team that provides outstanding leadership, strategic direction and support to some of the best schools in the country? Do you want to play your part in delivering outstanding support to young people in disadvantaged communities? If so, joining the Star team might just be the best career move you ever make.

About Star Central

Star Central, which is based at our head office in Blackburn, Lancashire, provides leadership, strategic direction and support to Star Academies, Star Institute and our schools.

The Star Central team includes experts from a range of professional backgrounds, who work together to provide an outstanding support service to the Star community. We support our schools to provide educational and operational excellence and to cultivate a strong Star community, with the aim of nurturing today’s young people and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders.

Who we’re looking for

This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside senior leaders to develop and maintain a positive, ambitious culture which promotes excellent safeguarding practices by removing barriers to learning. 

We are looking for safeguarding experts who are able to develop strategies and provide advice to senior leaders to help create an open safe environment where all stakeholders are able to raise concerns.

As a Regional Safeguarding and Child Protection Officer, you will be deployed across our schools located in one of the cluster regions of West Midlands and London and so you must be flexible to travel as and when required to do so. 

You will have:

Qualified to degree level or equivalent.
Be experienced in managing complex child protection cases and an ability to develop and maintain effective partnerships with both internal and external organisations.
Have a proven track record of achieving organisational change and experience of partnership and multi-agency working.
Have up to date current thinking around safeguarding and be equipped with the skills and knowledge to undertake the role.
Identify opportunities to deliver improvement.

About Star Academies

is a high-performing multi-academy trust that runs more than 30 primary and secondary schools. We are a values-based organisation that works to improve the life chances of young people in areas of social and economic deprivation to help them succeed at the highest levels of education, employment and the professions. Every single day you’ll be rewarded with the opportunity to shape a young person’s future - our embody what we believe is needed to succeed.

Professional development is key to our ongoing success, so we continually invest in our employees through our learning and development centre, . With a wealth of training, mentoring and progression opportunities across a growing group of academies, joining our team of leading education experts could propel your career to the next level. 



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