Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead – Henley Bank High School, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

We are looking for a Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead
. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and committed individual to join our Safeguarding Team. This growth is also enabling us to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our students within the school.

At Henley Bank High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave our school with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual, moral, civic and performance virtues.

We are a successful secondary school based in Brockworth, extremely close to junction 11a of the M5. The school has consistently been achieving excellent academic results over the past few years with the GCSE results of 2023 being in the top 1% of results in the country, as well as the highest results for any non-selective school in Gloucestershire. We opened our Sixth Form in September 2024 and are really excited to see what the next stage in the school’s journey will be.

A crucial element of the school’s vision is ensuring that we are preparing our young people for the world of tomorrow. This role plays an essential part in achieving this.

Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like‑minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, while retaining and developing their own distinctive character.

We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.

To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our job portal.

The role of the Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead will support the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all students within the school to ensure that they can attend lessons and thrive at school.

You will work alongside key members of the school, employees, young people, families and other agencies to:

• Ensure the school safeguarding systems are rigorous, robust, easy to use and impactful
• Follow up on each safeguarding concern that has been raised by staff
• Work closely with the attendance team, SENDCo and Senior Leadership Team ensuring that students don’t fall through a gap
• Develop and maintain a culture of safety and vigilance in the school
• Have due regard for safeguarding and promote the welfare of young people in accordance with the Child Protections/Safeguarding and Inclusion policies

• Ensure the school systems for monitoring, tracking and following up on safeguarding concerns are rigorously implemented and of high quality and are flagged by members of staff
• Reinforce the high levels of expectations of vigilance around safeguarding, delivering staff training where it is either statutory or necessary
• Lead in the corporate responsibility for and commitment to the safeguarding and promotion of the well‑being and self‑discipline of all students
• Ensure safeguarding tracking systems are utilised, constantly reviewed and improved
• Engage with local and national discourse on safeguarding and ensure the school policies are updated annually in line with guidance including the Greenshaw Learning Trust safeguarding policy and to ensure that parents/carers, governors and staff are aware of; have access to the policy
• Engage with the school culture, regularly walking the school and developing an understanding of the impact of student safety on teaching and learning
• Greet students each morning
• Work closely with the Local Authority to ensure that referrals are promptly and appropriately responded to, and to re‑refer where necessary
• Develop the school’s relationship with the Local Authority, ensuring we utilise all…