Strategic Designated Safeguarding Lead at Phoenix Primary School

Company: Phoenix Primary School
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Location: Chatham
Job Description:

About this Role

At Phoenix Primary School, we are developing amore collaborative and coordinated approach to safeguarding, inclusion,attendance and family support, ensuring that our systems and ways of workingenable us to identify needs early and provide the right support at the righttime.

The Strategic Designated Safeguarding Leadwill play an important role in shaping and supporting this approach, providingstrategic oversight of safeguarding across the school and helping to ensurethat our culture, policies, practices and systems remain effective, consistentand responsive to the needs of our children and families.

The postholder will take a lead in overseeingsafeguarding information and data for our most vulnerable pupils, usinginsights from CPOMS alongside attendance, achievement, behaviour, inclusion,mental health and wellbeing information to help identify emerging concerns,understand barriers and inform appropriate support. This will includerecognising and responding to challenges such as emotionally based schoolavoidance (EBSA), working collaboratively with colleagues to help children feelsafe, supported and ready to learn.

In return weoffer:

  • A comprehensiveinduction programme.
  • Growingwell-being team with Mental Health Lead supporting children and staff
  • A HealthyWork-Life Balance and a committed SLT
  • A happy andcaring community.
  • CareFirst employee assistance programme
  • Non-contributorymembership of Benenden private health care cover
  • Membershipof the Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Two-week, half-term break in October
  • Cycleto work scheme

Safeguarding Commitment

Beyond Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promotingthe welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteersto share in this commitment. All post holders in a regulated activity aresubject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosingand Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check”.

Equality & InclusivityStatement

At Beyond Schools Trust we strive to be a diverse andinclusive workplace where we can ALL be ourselves. We particularly encourageapplications from under-represented communities, including but not limited tothose who identify as Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background.

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Posted: October 22nd, 2026