Safeguarding Officer

Overview

Role: Safeguarding Officer (Temporary - Maternity Leave)

Academy: Outwood Academy City Fields

Start Date: 01/07/2026

Salary (Actual Salary): £26,113 to £26,981

Working Pattern: 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time Plus Five Days

As a Safeguarding Officer, you will be pivotal in coordinating safeguarding referrals, managing documentation, and initiating multi‑agency interventions to protect vulnerable students and their families. This strategic and hands‑on role requires working directly with external agencies and leading the academy’s response to complex child protection issues.

• Manage and coordinate the academy’s response to safeguarding concerns, ensuring appropriate action following disclosures and maintaining accurate, confidential documentation via CPOMS.
• Coordinate multi‑agency approaches to child protection issues, initiate referrals to outside agencies, and serve as the lead professional for Team Around the Child meetings when appropriate.
• Work directly with children and their families to promote their potential and prevent significant harm.
• Collate and produce statistical information related to safeguarding and manage in‑year admissions.

• Significant experience in safeguarding and child protection, including recent experience working with children and families in the public, private, or voluntary sectors.
• Essential qualifications: NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in social care/child protection/safeguarding, or willingness and ability to obtain it.
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences, manage competing deadlines under pressure, and maintain strict confidentiality.
• Experience working with other agencies, such as Social Care and the NHS.
• Mandatory satisfactory DBS check.

• Secure Pay & Pension:
  Competitive salary, automatic pay progression, and enrolment in the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Training & Progression:
  Access to diverse CPD opportunities, including apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.
• Flexibility & Leave:
  Flexible family policies, enhanced occupational benefits (no qualifying period), 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays for non‑term time staff.
• Wellbeing & Perks:
  Dedicated mental well‑being strategy, free on‑site parking, employee discounts, and access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.

If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact Holly Furness, HR Assistant at h.f

Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, and checks regarding suitability to work with children.