Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

At Harris Academy Tottenham, we instil an ethos of hard work, dedication and commitment to learning, through our Academy values. These are:

• To ENDEAVOUR is to strive for your goals, through maintaining the highest expectations of ourselves.
• To ENJOY is to take delight and pleasure in the learning process;
  To gain a feeling of success through relentless passion and drive.
• To EXCEL is to achieve your full potential, through mastery of concepts and an ambition to be the best you can be.

At Harris Academy Tottenham, we are innovative, open and collaborative. We would like fellow innovators, passionate pedagogists and creative class leaders to join us during this exciting time. With a dedicated SLT team on hand for support and guidance, there are a multitude of CPD opportunities to thrive on. You can expect to be a part of a fantastic team of dedicated teachers and support staff as well as an attentive, supportive work culture.

Our brand-new facilities allow us to continue expanding our curriculum offer, ensuring students experiences are both varied and enriching. The premises has undergone a comprehensive programme of refurbishment, and reached completion in May 2019. Our new Sports Block opened in May 2019, and has fantastic facilities including a Sports Hall, Activity Studio, Multi Use Game Areas.

Having been recognised as ‘Outstanding’ by OFSTED in June 2017, we are excited to have new members of staff join us in delivering transformative learning experiences. The inspectors commented that ‘learning is the business of the day’ and that sentiment underpins all that we do. Since then, the school continues to grow and strive for the highest standards.

Do you have experience with Safeguarding? Join our thriving academy and support our students. We are currently looking to appoint an experienced Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead to join us at Harris Academy Tottenham.

The actual salary for this role will be £35,312.86 - £36,798.40 (41 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week).

• Refer cases of suspected abuse to the local authority children’s social care as required;
• Support staff who make referrals to local authority children’s social care;
• Refer cases to the Channel programme where there is a radicalisation concern as required;
• Support staff who make referrals to the Channel programme;
• Refer cases where a crime may have been committed to the Police as required;
• Whole school Safeguarding training;
• Prepare and present information to present information to present to the Academy Governors, ALG and Ofsted;
• Management of CPOMS; ensuring that Academy Staff are using it correctly and training if required;
• To understand the assessment process for providing early help and statutory intervention, including local criteria for action and local authority children’s social care referral arrangements (full details in Chapter one of ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’);
• To have a working knowledge of how local authorities conduct a child protection case conference and a child protection review conference and be able to attend and contribute to these effectively when required to do so;
• To ensure each member of staff has access to and understands the school or college’s child protection policy and procedures, especially new and part time staff;
• To be alert to the specific needs of children in need, those with special educational needs and young carers (Section 17(10) Children Act 1989: those unlikely to achieve a reasonable standard of health and development without local authority services, those whose health and development is likely to be significantly impaired without the provision of such services, or disabled children.);
• To understand relevant data protection legislation and…