Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and Family Support - Chiltern Wood School

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and Family Support - Chiltern Wood School

Location: High Wycombe

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week - Monday to Friday (Flexibility for the right candidate)
Multi Site - across all 3 sites to include essential visits

Interviews to be held: 25/04/2025

About us

Chiltern Wood School is a Special School currently supporting over 200 students ranging from ages 3 to 19 years. We are currently based on three sites in the High Wycombe area.

What can we offer you?

• To be part of an experienced and confident safeguarding team
• Regular supervision from experienced DSL
• Regular CPD
• Opportunities to work with a range of internal and external professionals
• To be part of a great team and an expanding school

The successful candidate will work with the safeguarding team to ensure that full support is in place to promote the welfare and protection of our pupils and vulnerable families. In addition, the Deputy DSL will provide administrative support to the safeguarding team, manage a case load, support and attend meetings, and ensure that all processes followed comply with school policies. The successful candidate will be computer literate with a good understanding of web-based packages/systems.

About you

The ideal candidate will have previous experience of SEN, having worked within a safeguarding and/or medical remit.

Other information

Please note that any applications submitted that are considered to not be authentic and may have any details generated by AI will not be shortlisted for interview.

If you would like to visit our school, please do contact us at HR@chilternwood.bucks.sch.uk to arrange a visit.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

All applications to be submitted via My New Term: https://mynewterm.com/jobs/110578/EDV-2025-CWS-08171

Chiltern Wood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full vetting checks, including a disclosure of criminal records at an enhanced level.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a self-disclosure form and return it prior to the interview.