Progress House Provision Manager
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Salary: £33,781.59 to £36,041.35
Grade: Grade 9, Point 28-31 Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Structure
Start Date: 1st September 2026
Contract Type: Permanent
Contract Term: Full Time - 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (Term Time including 5 Inset Days)
Closing Date: Tuesday 7th July 2026
Interview Date: TBC Thursday 9th or Friday 10th July 2026
Wilmslow High School
School age range: 11-18
Number on roll: approx. 2,000 (including 500 sixth form)
This is a full-time position (37 hours per week) Monday – Thursday 8am – 4pm & Friday 8am – 3.30pm, 39 weeks per year (term time including 5 Inset Days) on appointments
This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Progress House Team. We are seeking to appoint an innovative, committed and highly efficient Progress House Provision Manager who truly believes that all children are entitled to an equal education.
In this job, you will work specifically in our Progress House Provision, supporting students with complex SEMH.
The Progress House team is a significant part of the school. The team helps a number of students with behavioural needs and those with Education, Health and Care Plans to be educated in a mainstream setting, with an emphasis on inclusion in mainstream and growing independence in preparation for adulthood. The work of the team encompasses the whole school and may include students across every year group.
Some of the students in Progress House may require an alternative curriculum, alongside the mainstream curriculum. The Progress House team deliver bespoke interventions and support students to access all mainstream lessons. However, at times students may remain in small groups within Progress House, supported by specialist Learning Support Assistants.
You will take into account students’ special needs and ensure access to lessons and lesson content through appropriate clarification, explanations, equipment and materials. You will bring experience of working with young people with complex Special Educational Needs; and an understanding of effective approaches to supporting them.
This post carries leadership and management responsibility for overseeing, and ensuring engagement with, the comprehensive curriculum provision offered within Progress House. The postholder is expected to work as part of the Progress House Team to design and implement with impact an effective school improvement plan and individual student and family plans, for:
- Building and maintaining a culture of high expectation across Progress House
- Extending additional curriculum provision within and beyond the school day
- Improving efficacy and swiftness in addressing key barriers to engagement with the curriculum
- Engaging students in Years 7-13 with the curriculum through effective use of the classrooms
- Identifying and removing barriers to learning for:
- Underperforming students
- Students with low attendance
- Students with additional needs including SEMH needs, SEN and medical needs
We offer a happy and caring environment rooted in our core values, in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process.
If invited for interview, you will be:
- asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
- subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.
If successful, you will be subject to:
- an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
- pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.
Current or previous employers will be contacted and information requested will include:
- disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’.
- whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns.
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Job Description – Progress House Provision Manager
To whom responsible: Head of House – Progress House
Purpose of Post
This post carries leadership and management responsibility for overseeing, and ensuring engagement with, the comprehensive curriculum provision offered within Progress House. The postholder is expected to work as part of the Progress House Team to design and implement with impact, an effective school improvement plan, and individual student and family plans, for:
- Building and maintaining a culture of high expectation across Progress House
- Extending additional curriculum provision within and beyond the school day
- Supporting students and families to meet targets for reintegration to a full mainstream package
- Improving efficacy and swiftness in addressing key barriers to engagement with the curriculum
- Engaging students in Years 7-13 with the curriculum through effective use of Progress House
- Identifying and removing barriers to learning for:
i. Underperforming students
ii. Students with low attendance
iii. Students with additional needs including SEMH needs, SEN and medical needs
Principal Duties
School Leadership
- To work as part of the Progress House Team
- To provide within the Progress House a high expectation culture which pursues excellence for all students every day
- As part of the Progress House Team to deploy staff and resource across Progress House in line with the aims above
- To lead assigned Progress House Leads and members of the Learning Support team
Strategy and improvement
- As part of the Progress House Team to design and implement with impact the Progress House school improvement plan
- To design and implement with impact individual student and family plans which combine targeted and complex academic and pastoral support and enable students to engage effectively:
- in the classroom
- with independent practice (including through maintenance of Firefly tasks)
- in planning their aspirations for future destinations
- To develop further teamwork across Whole School Teams and with curriculum teams
Teaching and curriculum excellence
- To develop and maintain links with curriculum areas
- To coordinate and implement curricular provision across the Progress House including blended learning programmes and Medical Needs Tuition provision
- To drive improvement in students building successful learning habits including engagement in the classroom and independent practice
- To drive improvement in standards of work
- To drive improvement in standards of behaviour
- To engage in professional learning programme
Leading with impact
- To maintain high standards of behaviour across Progress House
- To coordinate attendance calling across Progress House
- To design and implement with impact effective strategies to improve the engagement with the curriculum, performance and attendance of individual students and groups of students particularly the allocated focus group of students. This to include the effective deployment of allocated members of the Progress House or Learning Support team
Working in partnership
- To work in partnership to ensure ‘joined up’ practice and efficient and effective systems across and within school teams
- To contribute to the whole school responsibilities of the Student Services or Learning Support Team
- To manage a House link for the Progress House team for reintegration to the mainstream house system
- To support and engage parents including facilitating targeted parent support groups, to inform parents’ skills and behaviour and learning management techniques
- To build and maintain effective links with the range of external partners relevant to Progress House
- To share good practice across wider school partnerships
- To attend parents’ evenings where appropriate
Managing resources and risks
- To ensure efficient and effective use of Progress House
- To ensure efficient and effective deployment of staffing within Progress House
- To ensure efficient and effective use of other assigned resources
Notes
Safety and safeguarding
To take all reasonable steps to ensure the Health and Safety of students and staff within the teaching base environment.
To promote and safeguard the welfare of students in accordance with the school’s child protection policy.
Safety and safeguarding
Wilmslow High School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with, as such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. The post holder will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Check with appropriate barred list checks, or the equivalent, and must be eligible to work in the UK. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across the school, this is in line with statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Local Authority Flexibility Policy
Notwithstanding the detail in this job description to undertake, in accordance with the Policy, such work as may be determined by the Head teacher from time to time, up to or on a level consistent with the Principal Duties of the job.
‘No Smoking’ Policy
The school is an entirely ‘no smoking’ and ‘no vaping’ environment.
Review
This job description will be subject to review annually at the end of the academic year or earlier if necessary.
In addition, it may be amended at any time after consultation with you.
Pay: £33,781.59-£36,041.35 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free flu jabs
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
