Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead
Location: Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per annum
We believe in giving people the opportunities they need to lead fulfilling, independent lives. We are one of the UK’s sixth largest provider of education, care and support services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
Here, our residents and students have complex learning difficulties, some associated with profound physical disabilities and/or medical needs. Within our School and Children’s Home, their ages range between 6 – 19. Within our Adult Care Home, ages range from 18 – 30.
We are currently seeking a Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead to join our leadership team across our services in, taking responsibility for the management of safeguarding issues both on and off site.
The Role:
As our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) you will receive safeguarding referrals via the services safeguarding system, My Concern, and follow the safeguarding processes and policies to ensure the safety and wellbeing of residents and students.
Key Duties:
- To develop the improvement of individual and site practice around behaviour and safeguarding and be responsible for policy implementation of these elements, ensuring all practice is in line with all statutory guidelines, CQC & Ofsted regulations
- To coordinate the effective implementation of the Attendance Policy.
- To provide relevant behaviour and safeguarding training to staff through CPD.
- To ensure that all relevant compliance has been completed with the support of the school business manager in the completion of reports and audits
- Communicate with parents/carers, employees, other agencies, and local authorities on the progress of children and young people and the effectiveness of intervention and support strategies
- Exercise a key role in advising and assisting the Service Leads with the strategic development of behaviour, pastoral, wellbeing, and preparing for adulthood offers, including reviewing, and formulating policies.
Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Please see the link below for our full job description:
Responsibilities/Qualifications:
- GCSE (or equivalent) in English & Maths
- DSL training level 3 or above and experience working as a DSL.
- Level 3 in Health and Social Care, or working with children and young people (Desirable)
- Proven track record of excellent creative and structured pastoral interventions within relevant special needs environment.
- Experience of holding responsibility for and turning policy into effective and successful practice.
- Leadership in a residential setting such as a Children’s Home or Adult Care Home
- Communicating effectively to a wide range of different audiences though a range of different mediums and managing relationships with various external agencies.
- Successful management of complex scenarios and conflict resolution as well as experience of using effective behaviour and teaching strategies.
- Understanding of the implementation of ASD intervention and support strategies (TEACCH, attention Autism or other similar).
- Experience of OFSTED & CQC inspections and following action planning.
What’s on offer:
- Opportunities for meaningful career development
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Life assurance
- Enhanced pension scheme (from October)
- Perk Box- offering high street discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Bike to work scheme
- Car lease scheme
Blackstone Benefits:
✅Assigned specialised recruitment consultant
✅Access to exclusive and flexible UK locum and permanent jobs
✅Complete onboarding support
✅Informed tailored career advice
✅Personalised job alerts
✅Unlimited referral bonus
For further information on this role, please contact Finley Chatfield at Blackstone Recruitment on the details provided or APPLY now.