Designated Safeguarding Lead - August 2025
GEMS Metropole School
United Arab Emirates
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 25 January 2025
Job overview
Main Purpose
The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of students in the school. The DSL is responsible for overseeing all aspects of child protection and safeguarding within the school, ensuring that all safeguarding procedures are followed, and acting as the primary point of contact for all safeguarding concerns.
Values
- Embrace and encourage the ethos and standards of excellence as defined in the GEMS Core Values.
- Work closely with the HOS to establish effective and globally relevant practices of teaching & learning. Implement the school’s vision for quality pupil centric teaching & learning at all levels in the school linked with the GEMS expectation of excellent education.
- Integrate GEMS core values into the planning and delivery of all curricular and co – curricular lessons and activities.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to remain calm and effective in stressful situations.
- A commitment to continuous professional development.
- Empathy and sensitivity when working with vulnerable students.
- An understanding of mental health and wellbeing in children and young people.
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills.
- Ability to build strong, trusting relationships with students, parents, and staff.
- Problem-solving abilities and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to influence and motivate others to ensure the best outcomes for students
About GEMS Metropole School
- GEMS Metropole School
- Honsho Road, Uptown Motor City
- Dubai
- United Arab Emirates
GEMS Metropole School, located in Motor City in Dubai, opened its doors in September 2014 and has continued to flourish and grow in student number and stature. The school is now open to students from FS1 to Year 13 with an all-through school capacity of 4200 students offering the National Curriculum for England.
The school has become well-known for their key areas of success, such as a strong community approach to education, highly inclusive school support to strong secondary options at Key Stage 4 and academic and vocational choices at Key Stage 5. In addition, the school has well-equipped classrooms, a highly competitive sports department, a farm, digital media rooms, innovation laboratories, dedicated science labs, music, art rooms and libraries.
Most recently the school has completely overhauled its digital strategy to lay the foundations to further its position as a leader in associated technologies in the region, focusing on the use of technology to a. enhance the learning experience of our students through experiential learning through the use of AR and AI technology b. improve feedback and communication between the student/teacher and teacher/parent and c. help reduce staff time and workload, helping to improve teacher wellbeing and reduce burnout.
Students from our Foundation Stage classes have access to attractive indoor and outdoor learning areas to explore and investigate, high quality Information Technology provision and Science provision to develop IT and Science-based literacy, and most recently a language hub to support key language skills across school.
In the Primary section, with the use of 1:1 technologies, students and teachers use iPads and interactive whiteboards to enhance learning opportunities where appropriate. The Secondary school continues to develop and grow and has seen the LEAD and skills programme blossom supporting students to make informed decisions and develop their learning and leadership skills. A new focus of personalised pathways is supporting students in their preparation for life after school and their journey towards success. In conclusion, GEMS Metropole School is a member of the British Schools of the Middle East (BSME) with the School Principal as a BSME Country Rep. This allows both teachers and students alike to continue to grow and develop with the rich traditions of the National Curriculum offerings and align itself with ‘like schools’ across the region and overseas.
Principal
Nav Iqbal
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