Safeguarding & Child Protection

• Act as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), with lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection, including online safety.
• Provide strategic leadership of safeguarding, ensuring a strong, consistent and child-centred culture.
• Lead and coordinate the work of the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSLs), working effectively with the Trust Safeguarding Team and external agencies.
• Ensure safeguarding systems, policies, procedures, recording, training and quality assurance are robust, effective and compliant.
• Maintain oversight of safeguarding records, referrals, chronologies and actions, providing appropriate assurance to the CEO, SLT, School Steering Group and Trustees.
• Maintain a clear understanding of the school’s filtering and monitoring systems and processes, working closely with the school’s IT provider to ensure these are effective, appropriately managed and regularly reviewed.
• Ensure staff understand their safeguarding responsibilities and receive appropriate training and support.
• Ensure safeguarding practice reflects the specific needs and vulnerabilities of pupils attending BFC School and is continually reviewed and improved.
• Lead on complex safeguarding matters and work effectively with safeguarding partners and other agencies.
• Ensure DSL responsibilities align with current Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and other relevant statutory guidance.

Culture, Relationships, Behaviour & Attendance

• Provide strategic leadership of culture, relationships, behaviour, attendance and pupil engagement.
• Lead the day-to-day running of the school, promoting high expectations, inclusion, belonging and positive relational practice.
• Ensure whole-school approaches are understood, implemented consistently and evaluated effectively, recognising individual pupil needs and circumstances.
• Provide appropriate support, challenge and accountability to staff.
• Use attendance, behaviour, engagement, pupil voice and other evidence to evaluate impact and identify priorities.
• Work closely with the SENDCo and relevant staff where SEND, inclusion, reintegration or transition intersect with attendance, engagement or behaviour.
• Work with pupils, families and external agencies to address barriers to engagement and successful outcomes.
• Ensure expectations, routines and responses are applied consistently across BFC School.

Quality Assurance, Teaching, Learning & Organisational Leadership

• Maintain an accurate, evidence-informed understanding of the quality and effectiveness of provision across BFC School.
• Lead a coherent whole-school quality assurance cycle that supports improvement, professional development and accountability.
• Set clear expectations for the quality of provision, recognising the different needs and functions of the school.
• Strategically lead the development of teaching, curriculum, assessment and professional practice.
• Ensure the curriculum is delivered to a high standard, maximising pupil achievement and addressing educational disadvantage.
• Monitor pupil progress and ensure appropriate reporting to parents/carers and Trustees.
• Maintain a strong understanding of classroom practice and the pupil experience.
• Model high-quality teaching and relational practice, with high expectations for learning, engagement and progress.
• Undertake an appropriate teaching commitment, as determined by the CEO.
• Oversee SEND provision and ensure inclusive practice.
• Identify and address variations in quality and outcomes.
• Effectively deploy and develop staffing capacity, including recruitment, appraisal and workforce development.
• Lead the effective management of the school’s budget and financial resources, ensuring expenditure is well controlled, aligned to strategic priorities and supports long-term sustainability.
• Contribute to organisational planning, resource allocation and the management of change.
• Provide leadership in response to significant incidents, complex situations and emerging organisational priorities.
• Ensure effective systems support communication, accountability and organisational effectiveness.

Partnership, Trust & Governance

• Develop effective professional relationships with pupils, parents/carers, staff, the Trust and external partners.
• Maintain strong communication with parents and carers and act as the initial point of contact for significant parental concerns.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Blackpool FC Community Trust.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with the Local Authority, mainstream schools, Alternative Provision partners and relevant external agencies.
• Represent BFC School and the Trust professionally within local and wider partnerships.
• Support the CEO in providing Trustees with appropriate information, evaluation, assurance and reporting.
• Attend Trust Board, School Steering Group and other governance meetings as required.
• Provide accurate, timely and meaningful reports and presentations to governance bodies.
• Identify partnership opportunities that enhance outcomes and opportunities for pupils.
• Promote understanding of BFC School’s contribution to the wider education system and local community.
• Protect and enhance the school’s reputation through high standards of professional practice.

Pupil-Centred Leadership

• Place the safety, wellbeing, inclusion and educational outcomes of pupils at the centre of decision-making.
• Ensure pupil voice and experience inform school improvement and decision-making.
• Promote high aspirations and positive destinations for all pupils.
• Ensure BFC School’s Alternative Provision offer responds effectively to individual needs and barriers to mainstream education.
• Promote effective transition, reintegration and onward progression.
• Ensure pupils are treated with dignity, respect and consistency.
• Champion equality, inclusion and opportunity across BFC School.
• Work with staff, families and external partners to remove barriers to learning and engagement.