LCT Safeguarding Lead We are looking for an exceptional Safeguarding Lead to join our central trust team and drive excellence in safeguarding practice across all Learning Community Trust academies. This is a strategic and influential position – central to ensuring that our safeguarding culture remains effective, compassionate, and fully compliant with all statutory requirements, including Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) and Working Together to Safeguard Children. The Safeguarding Lead will be joining a dynamic and experienced team of Education Directors at the heart of the Learning Community Trust. This central team plays a pivotal role in shaping and supporting educational excellence across our diverse family of academies, which span primary, secondary, special, and alternative provision settings. This role is pivotal in shaping and sustaining a culture of vigilance, respect, and care across all our academies, one that reflects our values of A Trust With Heart and Together We Are Stronger, where every young person’s voice is heard, every family feels supported, and every academy community is safe, inclusive, and thriving. To find out more, please download the job pack. If you wish to have an informal conversation about this vacancy, please contact Kerrie (EA to the Education Team) on: 01952 951400 We look forward to hearing from you. Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information. The Learning Community Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All post holders working in regulated activity with children, are required to have an enhanced DBS check (including a check on the children’s barred list). References will be required for all shortlisted candidates, prior to interview and these will be checked following the Learning Community Trust recruitment and selection process. In line with the Statutory Guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education an online check will also be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates prior to the interview. Shortlisted candidates will also be required to complete a criminal self-disclosure declaration, posts that involve working in regulated activity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, please note it is a criminal offence for individuals on the barred list for children to apply for any post working with children. For more information, please refer to The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, for information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. We are committed to equality and diversity and follow the Safer Recruitment practices as set out in the Statutory Guidance - Keeping Children Safe in Education. Closing Date: 03/11/25 Interview Date: TBC Attached documents Application form Candidate pack