Progress House Officer
Salary: £26,788.61 to £29,249.17 pro rata
Grade: Grade 7, Point 18-23 Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Structure
Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent
Contract Term: Full-Time 36 hours per week, 38.2 weeks per year (Term Time only includes 1 Inset Day)
Closing Date: 08:00 am Friday 20th November 2026
Interview Date: Wednesday 25th November 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 (36 hours per week) Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 4:15pm & Friday 8:30am – 3:45pm, 38.2 weeks per year (term time only includes 1 Inset Days) on appointment
We are an exciting opportunity to work within our Progress House Team. We are seeking to appoint an innovative, committed and highly efficient Progress House Officer who truly believes that all children are entitled to an equal education.
We are proud to be Wilmslow’s community secondary school and this means we are privileged to serve a very diverse and comprehensive range of students.
The postholder is expected to work as part of the Progress House Team to 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 Provision
- 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 Progress House
- Identifying and removing barriers to learning for: Underperforming students
- Students with low attendance
- Students with additional needs including SEMH needs, SEN and medical needs
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.
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.
