National Safeguarding Manager
| Posting date: | 21 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2026 |
| Location: | London, Not recorded, N1 0AX |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 72653611-ba0a-421f-9645-6e3b64dfaddc |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a safeguarding expert able to protect and advocate for our young people while empowering the staff who care for them. How can we cultivate and maintain a culture that fiercely minimises harm, anticipates risks, and never defaults to "assuming someone else will do it"?
You need to be deeply knowledgeable enough to navigate complex statutory frameworks, compliance audits, and out-of-hours escalation pathways with absolute confidence. But you must also be skilled enough to build deep trust with our people, competence, and collaborative commitment in everyone across the organisation.
What the school offers its staff
The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust, a successful, charitable 36-school primary-only multi-academy trust , has built an incredible national and regional network of support. Driven by a small, highly experienced, and collaborative central team , we have successfully established an annual audit framework, specialised regional network meetings, and active Safeguarding Working Groups. Now, we are poised to elevate our practices further. We are recruiting a National Safeguarding Manager to continue building on this solid base, providing comprehensive support, advice, and robust challenge across all our schools.
Our core mission is simple: to improve the education and lifelong chances of children through everything we do. To do this, we need someone who can confidently advise a Principal on a high-stakes local authority referral one morning , and design an inspiring, trust-wide interactive training program the next afternoon.
If you are a compassionate, authoritative leader who wants a career (not just a job) , and you have the passion to champion children across our national clusters, we will take you as far and sometimes further than you believed possible.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We are seeking a safeguarding expert able to protect and advocate for our young people while empowering the staff who care for them. How can we cultivate and maintain a culture that fiercely minimises harm, anticipates risks, and never defaults to "assuming someone else will do it"?
You need to be deeply knowledgeable enough to navigate complex statutory frameworks, compliance audits, and out-of-hours escalation pathways with absolute confidence. But you must also be skilled enough to build deep trust with our people, competence, and collaborative commitment in everyone across the organisation.
What the school offers its staff
The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust, a successful, charitable 36-school primary-only multi-academy trust , has built an incredible national and regional network of support. Driven by a small, highly experienced, and collaborative central team , we have successfully established an annual audit framework, specialised regional network meetings, and active Safeguarding Working Groups. Now, we are poised to elevate our practices further. We are recruiting a National Safeguarding Manager to continue building on this solid base, providing comprehensive support, advice, and robust challenge across all our schools.
Our core mission is simple: to improve the education and lifelong chances of children through everything we do. To do this, we need someone who can confidently advise a Principal on a high-stakes local authority referral one morning , and design an inspiring, trust-wide interactive training program the next afternoon.
If you are a compassionate, authoritative leader who wants a career (not just a job) , and you have the passion to champion children across our national clusters, we will take you as far and sometimes further than you believed possible.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.