Safeguarding Manager

JOIN OUR MISSION TO BE ONE OF THE BEST SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY!

At Ernulf Academy, we are building a team of exceptional and highly skilled staff committed to delivering excellence and continuous improvement. Over the last two years, we have significantly improved outcomes for our scholars and remain ambitious in our pursuit of even greater success. We believe that every child deserves to feel safe, supported, and able to thrive, and safeguarding sits at the heart of everything we do.

As Safeguarding Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring the welfare, safety, and wellbeing of all scholars. Working closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), senior leaders, external agencies, and families, you will help ensure that safeguarding practices are robust, effective, and responsive to the needs of our young people. You will be instrumental in promoting a strong culture of safeguarding, supporting vulnerable scholars, and helping to remove barriers that may impact on attendance, wellbeing, and achievement.

This role is ideal for an experienced safeguarding professional who is passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people. You will be resilient, compassionate, highly organised, and committed to ensuring every scholar receives the support they need to succeed.

• Lead safeguarding and child protection processes
  - Manage safeguarding concerns, referrals, and records, ensuring all actions are timely, compliant, and child-centred.
• Support vulnerable scholars and families
  - Work directly with children, families, and external agencies to remove barriers and improve outcomes.
• Manage safeguarding records and reporting
  - Maintain accurate, confidential records and provide updates, reports, and analysis to academy leaders.
• Build effective multi-agency relationships
  - Liaise with social care, health services, local authorities, and other partners to coordinate support for scholars.
• Promote attendance, wellbeing and inclusion
  - Support initiatives that improve attendance, engagement, wellbeing, and the safeguarding culture across the academy.
• Train and support staff
  - Provide guidance, advice, and safeguarding awareness to colleagues, helping ensure statutory responsibilities are understood and fulfilled.
• Contribute to academy operations and compliance
  - Support safeguarding audits, policy implementation, statutory returns, and the continuous development of safeguarding practice across the academy.

This is a fantastic time to join TEAM ERNULF on our turnaround journey. We are on a RAPID MISSION to turn our school into one of the BEST in the country! When the current leadership took over, in September 2024, Ernulf had NEVER received an Ofsted 'Good' in ANY category. In January 2025, after just one term, Ofsted rated us 'Good' in ALL categories.

If our rapid improvement and ambition EXCITE you, then join us to disrupt disadvantage by transforming the education of our pupils. We are within an hour's commute of North London, Norfolk, Grantham and Rugby.

We believe in keeping things simple. Our mantra is: WORK HARD, BE KIND. We don't just want children to attain incredible academic outcomes; we also want to help them become great people.

Team Ernulf don't believe in fads. We know the biggest factor in a child's achievement is how hard they work. That is why we have sky high expectations. We have simple rules, centralised detentions, and we back our teachers - so that our classrooms are disruption-free. We do this to support our children who want to work hard and do well.

Team Ernulf is WWF: warm, welcoming, and friendly. We pride ourselves on having a family atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect and have zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core, but teaching pupils to be polite, considerate, and caring is just as important.

Our world-class enrichment programme takes learning beyond the classroom. Over the last year alone, children visited Cambridge University, The British Museum, The National Gallery, RAF Hendon, Kenilworth Castle, and were on Channel 5 and BBC radio!! As well as this, every week KS3 children have the opportunity to take part in electives such as British sign language, clubbercise, building a robotic arm, chess, girls cricket, and many more!

• A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and a traditional teaching and learning approach inspired by Rosenshine and TLAC.
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