Salary: GDST Support Staff band, Grade 5, FTE 1: £47,547 - £66,000 per annum. (Actual salary: £39,836 - £55,297 per annum), dependent on experience
Contract: Permanent
Hours: The successful candidate will work full time during term time, plus 10 days
Required from: September 2025
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and well-qualified Designated Safeguarding Lead to join the school’s Senior Leadership Team. You will take responsibility for safeguarding and child protection across the whole school (including online safety) from Reception through to Sixth Form.
Reporting to the Deputy Head Pastoral & Co-Curricular, you will work in close liaison with the Deputy Head Pastorals in both the senior and junior school to oversee and implement safeguarding policies, ensuring full compliance with statutory requirements and GDST expectations, reporting to the Heads of each school.
The DSL role is a dynamic and strategic role involving close collaboration with a range of stakeholders to advise and support on child welfare, safeguarding and child protection matters and liaising with relevant agencies such as the local authority and police to ensure a robust and effective response to safeguarding and wellbeing concerns. You will work closely with the school Nurses’ team and Wellbeing Lead to integrate medical and mental health support within the school’s pastoral framework.
If you have proven experience and expertise working within the field of Safeguarding to a highly competent professional standard, we would be delighted to hear from you.
About the School
As one of the UK’s leading schools, Putney High School is rightly proud of its exceptional academic results and pastoral care. A spirit of intellectual agility and engagement is at the heart of the school’s ethos, with pupils stretched, challenged, and supported inside the classroom and beyond.
The school is set in leafy, tranquil grounds close to the heart of Putney and to the River Thames.
The school is part of the GDST, the UK’s leading network of independent girls’ schools. We can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment
• Generous pension scheme
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Retail and lifestyle discounts
• Financial guidance and support
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
For further information about the school, personal and role, please refer to the Candidate Brief.
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Applications must be received by Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 9am.
Interview date: 21 May 2025.
Putney High School and the GDST are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
At Putney High School, we embrace and celebrate difference. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on their age, disability, gender, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. To ensure this, all positions are subject to blind shortlisting.