Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead

Location: UK-Hertfordshire-Royston Contract Type: Full time, Permanent (NOT TERM TIME) Hours: 40 hours per week Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 per annum School Staffing Solutions are recruiting for a Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead to take responsibility for the management of safeguarding issues both on and off site across a special needs school and residential home in Royston, Hertfordshire. The residents and students have complex learning difficulties, some associated with profound physical disabilities and/or medical needs. Within the School and Children’s Home, ages range between 6 – 19. Within our Adult Care Home, ages range from 18 – 30. The Role: As our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) you will receive safeguarding referrals via the services safeguarding system, My Concern, and follow Aurora’s safeguarding processes and policies to ensure the safety and wellbeing of residents and students. Key Duties: * To develop the improvement of individual and site practice around behaviour and safeguarding and be responsible for policy implementation of these elements, ensuring all practice is in line with all statutory guidelines, CQC & Ofsted regulations * To coordinate the effective implementation of the Attendance Policy. * To provide relevant behaviour and safeguarding training to staff through CPD. * To ensure that all relevant compliance has been completed with the support of the school business manager in the completion of reports and audits * Communicate with parents/carers, employees, other agencies, and local authorities on the progress of children and young people and the effectiveness of intervention and support strategies * Exercise a key role in advising and assisting the Service Leads with the strategic development of behaviour, pastoral, wellbeing, and preparing for adulthood offers, including reviewing, and formulating policies. About you: * GCSE (or equivalent) in English & Maths * DSL training level 3 or above and experience working as a DSL.- Essential * Level 3 in Health and Social Care, or working with children and young people (Desirable) * Proven track record of excellent creative and structured pastoral interventions within relevant special needs environment. * Experience of holding responsibility for and turning policy into effective and successful practice. * Leadership in a residential setting such as a Children’s Home or Adult Care Home * Communicating effectively to a wide range of different audiences though a range of different mediums and managing relationships with various external agencies. * Successful management of complex scenarios and conflict resolution as well as experience of using effective behaviour and teaching strategies. * Understanding of the implementation of ASD intervention and support strategies (TEACCH, attention Autism or other similar). * Experience of OFSTED & CQC inspections and following action planning. Benefits: * Opportunities for meaningful career development * Fully funded training and qualifications * Life assurance * Enhanced pension scheme (from October) * Perk Box- offering high street discounts * Employee assistance programme * Bike to work scheme * Car lease scheme If you have right skills and experience for this Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead then please send your cv today. If you would like to have a informal chat about the role please call Jennifer on (phone number removed). School Staffing Solutions Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position. Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search. Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion. This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled