Designated Safeguarding Lead / Home School Support Worker

Salary: TSAT Grade E - £26,281 - £29,578 (pro – rata to £22,250- £25,041 for hours and weeks stated)

Start Date: ASAP

Interview Date :W/C 26th April 2021

Contract: Permanent – Term time plus 5 INSET days

Closing Date : Sunday 2 May 2021

We require a Designated Safeguarding Lead / Home School Support Worker to join Gordon Children’s Academy. You will be willing to take the opportunity to play a full part in the further development of our school and join us in our aims to make learning irresistible and to provide a nurturing and safe environment for everyone.

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“Leaders’ actions to make improvements and ensure consistency across the school have been successful. As a result, standards have risen sharply since the school opened.”

“Leaders’ non-negotiable expectations have led to improvements in teaching, which is now good.” -OFSTED 2017

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The Gordon’s Children’s Academy is based in the Strood area. Our Junior and Infant school work closely together to ensure that all staff and children work together as one. We are lucky enough have a passionate workforce at our school who all care for and respect the fantastic children of our school.

We are dedicated to school improvement and we all aim to provide a happy, safe and fun school environment for the children, and our staff too. We have high expectations of behaviour and we recognise that it is our responsibility to listen to the children verbally or by interpreting their behaviour. Pupils of Gordon’s Children’s Academy are proud of their school and have an exciting environment around them to learn in, we encourage use of a creative curriculum and all children enjoy decorating their classroom whilst they focus on a particular topic across the curriculum.

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What you will need to succeed:

You will take lead responsibility for all safeguarding (including Online Safety) and child protection matters arising at the school and supporting all other staff in dealing with any child protection concerns that arise.

You will also be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons for who you are responsible and with whom you come into contact. To be available for staff to discuss any safeguarding concerns.

As DSL you will have a number of responsibilities which include referring cases, leading on training, review of pupil progress plans and raising awareness of safeguarding to all staff.

For a full list of responsibilities and to view the person specification please see the attached job description

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 Thinking Schools Academy Trust

The Thinking Schools Academy Trust is a family of schools consisting of both primary and secondary schools across Kent, Hampshire and Plymouth.

We believe that every young person in our community deserves to have the best opportunities at life regardless of their individual circumstances.

Education is the key to transforming life chances and we support and develop every member of our community to:

• Think about their Thinking
• Be their Best self
• Shape their Success

In this way we transform life chances

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What our Trust will offer you :

• The opportunity to work with happy children who come into school ready and excited to learn each morning.
• Support from a vast network of senior leaders within the school and our trust, our staff regularly get the opportunity to meet and share best practice within our trust.
• We offer excellent CPD opportunities,
• Our Primary Academy offers lots of space and intervention and breakout areas.
• Staff who join our happy and friendly academy can also benefit from a discounted price of £10 a month for a membership of the Thinking Fitness gym, which is located on site at New Horizon’s Children’s academy in Chatham.

What you need to do now:

If you are interested in working in a large Primary academy, benefiting from a large support network and you are keen to progress your career, then please apply today!

We strongly encourage any teachers who may be interested in working at our school to call our office manager, Kerry Masters, to book a no-pressure tour of the school and to meet some of our staff.

We also encourage any early applications and we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we suitable candidate is found.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.