Attendance and Safeguarding Support Officer

Location

Enfield, Greater London | United Kingdom

Job description

A fantastic opportunity for a suitably experience Attendance and Safeguarding Support Officer has arisen within our very effective and busy Central Safeguarding Team.

North Star Community Trust is a Charitable Trust set up to run and manage three Primary and one Secondary Academy serving approximately 2600 children. We are focused on driving up the quality of education provision and standards. We share a clear vision for improving our children’s life chances through providing equality of opportunity, an engaging and purposeful curriculum and high-quality teaching and learning.

Our Academies are situated within Enfield, applicants that have a community language or knowledge and experience of working within a busy inner city environment will be welcome.

Working as an intricate part of the team, the successful candidate will support with safeguarding and child protection issues, assisting the Education Welfare Officer with matters arising in the Trust schools (predominantly primaries but working within the secondary as required) and supporting all other staff in dealing with any safeguarding and child protection concerns that arise. You will provide a specialist service to assist the Trust in meeting our obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence. 

Working at NSCT Academies brings many additional benefits for our dedicated and valued staff, including:

• CPD and career opportunities across the Trust   
• Health Shield membership (employee assistant program supporting with wellbeing and offers many attractive discounts)    
• Free onsite car parking for staff
• A subsidised canteen for lunches
• Pensions scheme
• Cycle scheme.

We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service.

In line with KCSIE updates, an online search will be conducted as part of our due diligence checks on shortlisted candidates.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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