Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead

Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead – Aurora Meldreth & Orchard Manor
Location: Meldreth, Nr. Royston, Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per annum

At The Aurora Group, we believe in giving people the opportunities they need to lead fulfilling, independent lives. Established in 2015, we are now the UK’s sixth largest provider of education, care and support services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

Aurora Meldreth Manor & Orchard Manor

Here at Aurora Meldreth & Orchard Manor, our residents and students have complex learning difficulties, some associated with profound physical disabilities and/or medical needs. Within our School and Children’s Home, their ages range between 6 – 19. Within our Adult Care Home, ages range from 18 – 30.

We are currently seeking a Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead to join our leadership team across our services in Meldreth, taking responsibility for the management of safeguarding issues both on and off site.

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.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Please see the link below for our full job description:

Job Description: Designated Safeguarding & Pastoral Lead

• GCSE (or equivalent) in English & Maths
• DSL training level 3 or above and experience working as a DSL.
• 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.

What’s on offer:

• Opportunities for meaningful career development
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Life assurance
• Enhanced pension scheme 
• Perk Box- offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Bike to work scheme
• Car lease scheme

How to Apply: 

To apply for this role, please visit our careers place www.theauroragroup.co.uk/careers or for more information on this position please contact Kirsty in the Recruitment Team at kirsty.wilkinson@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.