Deputy Safeguarding Officer

Deputy Safeguarding Officer Required for a Secondary School in Harrow

At Engage Education Services, we’ve specialised in recruiting education staff for over a decade.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Deputy Safeguarding Officer to work full-time at a fantastic Secondary school in Harrow.

Working hours are Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4pm, during term time only.

About the role:

Support with Early Help functions as directed by the DSL including accountability for scheduling, implementation, monitoring, and development both across school, families, and partners.

Review safeguarding files of incoming students and be responsible for the disseminating information as required

Represent the school at core meetings for Early Help and child protection purposes, as well as attend statutory strategy meetings.

Ensure the accurate and timely monitoring and recording of Early Help progress, support parenting interventions, collaborate with external agencies and have responsibility for updating and working with local authorities.

Co-ordinate and schedule assessment, intervention and monitoring to improve school absenteeism, especially risk factors and emotional school avoidance.

Support the referrals to outside agencies and organisations to enable us to meet the needs of pupils, students, and families.

Work with parents, families, and carers to advise, support, guide, and work in partnership with stakeholders, including other agencies and professionals, to support learning, wellbeing, and safety to enable children to make progress.

To work with and support parents and carers to enable pupils and students to thrive through our partnership working between home and school.

Implement evidence-based approaches to crisis intervention as well as long term behaviour change.

Hold and manage a caseload to deliver therapeutic and behavioural change direct work with individual pupils/students and groups of pupils

Attend, participate, advise, and contribute to the Behaviour and Safeguarding meeting (WATCH)

Provide feedback in relation to progress, engagement, attendance and behaviour to the young person, other staff, and relevant stakeholders, as appropriate.

Positively challenge and motivate the children and young people, promoting and reinforcing their self-esteem.

Build strong, supportive relationships with individual children and young people, building on their strengths and attributes, delivering appropriate support and interventions.

Appropriately and compassionately manage and teach children who have experienced trauma how to regulate their emotions and problem solve.

Respect confidentiality at all times to prevent disclosure of confidential or sensitive information, ensure that all data protection policies and procedures are fully adhered to.

Ensure that all recording follows the organisations policies and procedures, is comprehensive and completed in a timely manner.

Prior knowledge of CPOMS and Bromcom would be beneficial