Sixth Form Progress Leader

Congleton Multi-Academy Trust (Cmat) is situated on the edge of Congleton in South East Cheshire, serving families from Congleton and parts of North Staffordshire.  It includes Congleton High School, Black Firs Primary School and Castle Primary School. Staff are expected to contribute to projects working with schools across the trust where required.

We wish to recruit a Sixth Form Progress Leader to join our team.  Main responsibilities will be to support the Assistant Leader of Post 16 to lead and guide sixth form students to enable them to effectively achieve their full potential and to become responsible, successful and confident citizens.  

Duties will be wide ranging and varied including: managing and organising the sixth form study programme in the study room; liaising with sixth form teams including subject Teachers and Form Tutors to ensure effective independent study skills; track and monitor student’s progress; manage student attendance; support students’ future aspirations; monitoring and supporting students’ pastoral/welfare needs and the administration support and management of information.  

This is a challenging and varied role.  It requires a commitment to young people and requires you to make the right decisions to provide students with the right support (academic, pastoral and learning materials/packages) to allow them to succeed to fulfil their future aspirations.  The ideal candidate will be passionate to work with KS5 students and able to build excellent relationships with them, regardless of their specific needs.   You will be educated to at least A Level Standard and ideally will have experience of working in an educational setting.  

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further information regarding this job role. 

If you would like more information about the Multi-Academy Trust please visit our website: http://www.congletonhigh.com   

If you would like an informal discussion about the post, please contact Mr Jim Barlow, Head of School,  jbarlow@congletonhigh.com or 01260 730123. 

To apply for this position please complete the attached application form.  Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

As an equal opportunities employer Congleton Multi-Academy Trust is committed to creating a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from members of minority groups. As part of the Academy Trust’s policy to safeguard children an enhanced DBS will be applied for.

We will only contact candidates that have been short-listed for interview.  If you have not been contacted within 10 working days of the closing date you can safely assume that you have not been invited to interview.

Closing Date: Monday, 15th July 2019 @ 09.00am with interviews to be held later on in the week.