Safeguarding Officer
Lammas School and Sixth Form
Waltham Forest
- £20,110 - £21,215 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 7 February 2022
Job overview
Lammas School is a secondary school with VI Form provision in Leyton, East London. We have been serving the community for 20 years since we opened in September 2001 and are proud of the impact we are making on the lives of our young people.
We would like to appoint a committed and motivated Safeguarding Officer to become a part of the safeguarding team. The successful applicant will promote the safeguarding and welfare of all children and young people attending The Lammas School, while ensuring that all school, borough and statutory procedures are followed at all times, in relation to any safeguarding concerns. They will be a point of contact and will be required to respond appropriately to any safeguarding concerns, deputise in the absence of the Safeguarding Lead, and monitor ongoing safeguarding concerns while working with parents/carers, pupils and any other external agencies. In addition, they will be required to maintain confidential records, initiate multi-agency referrals, lead safeguarding training and provide advice/guidance to staff.
Please look at our website and explore the Trust website as fully as you can (www.griffinschoolstrust.org). You will see evidence of the shared life of the schools in the Trust in events such as the Science Symposium, the Arts Festival, the Sports Festival and Founders Day.
The Trust really is a family of schools which work closely together within and across phases and geographical hubs. So in joining Lammas you do have good relationships with local authority schools and projects, but you also have a strong working relationship with your peers in Nicholas Chamberlaine School in North Warwickshire, as well as day to day involvement with our two GST neighbour primaries – Willow Brook and Riverley – both outstanding and one a shining example of what a Griffin Great School looks and feels like. It is that journey to Griffin Great that informs our development planning. Ofsted validates our progress within a defined national framework: it emphatically does not set our agenda.
To apply for this position please include a letter of application, full CV with the names and direct contact details of two referees and the completed Safer Recruitment form.
Completed applications should be addressed to Mark Bland and sent to jahmet@thelammas.com
The deadline for application is Monday 07 February 2022 at 12noon.
The school is 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.
Attached documents
About Lammas School and Sixth Form
About the Griffin Schools Trust
The Griffin Schools Trust (GST) is a family of ten primary and two secondary schools in the Midlands, London and South East. We have a strong track record in making schools much better for children and their families and for the staff who work with us. Our single most important mission is to provide the conditions in which children discover who they are and then go on confidently to take their places in society, making a contribution to the world through the use of their talents. We will never prepare children to know their places.
When schools decide to join us they bring their histories to us and together we turn them into traditions reflecting the Trust’s mission and values whilst preserving and extending the each school’s individuality. We offer a rich curriculum and an unusual range of enrichment and extension clubs and activities. We also have shared traditions so that children form every school feel part of the same family. Every summer term we hold the Griffin Arts Festival. In the spring we have Founders Day and the Science Symposium and in the autumn students compete in the Griffin Science Symposium. All these festivals are linked in an annual theme schools’ four houses compete for a Trust cup which is awarded to the house colour which has accumulated most points from all Trust events. All staff, including the CEO, belong to a house.
Great GST schools have nothing institutional about them and great GST staff are thoughtfully recruited for their excellent knowledge and their broad interests. They are developed by Heads as well as the research and training opportunities offered across the Trust to add their individual magic to the mix. All our schools practice open and distributed leadership and place a high value on creativity as well as growing great talent pipelines to ensure that there are plenty of opportunities for promotion within and beyond the school.
Look at our website and click through to some of the schools as well as the one to which you are applying. We are frequently told that colleagues have found their professional home at GST. Is it yours? We look forward to hearing from you.
Anne Powell
Chief Executive Officer
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