Assistant Progress Leader

We are looking for someone to work closely with our Progress Leaders, providing practical pastoral support to students and helping them overcome barriers to learning. You will build positive relationships with students, families and colleagues, follow up concerns about attendance, behaviour and engagement, and help deliver agreed interventions. This is a hands-on, supportive role within the pastoral team, rather than responsibility for leading a year group. What We Are Looking For We are looking for someone who can bring the right combination of experience, skills and commitment to the role.

• Work alongside the Progress Leader and wider pastoral team to help students feel safe, attend regularly and engage positively with school.
• Build positive relationships with students and families; support follow-up of attendance, behaviour and learning concerns; and help deliver agreed support, including academic sprints and activities to improve Commitment to Learning (C2L).
• Be calm, organised and approachable, with a commitment to safeguarding, inclusion and helping students develop confidence and responsibility.
Why Wigston Academies Trust? Wigston Academies Trust is formed of two schools serving one community: Wigston Academy (11-16) and Wigston College (16-18). We are proud of the community we serve and relentlessly ambitious for every young person. We focus on outcomes because outcomes create opportunities. Our mission is to create schools where every student is known, challenged and supported; where background does not determine destiny; and where we work together in pursuit of better outcomes, greater opportunities and brighter futures. Every member of staff contributes to the culture experienced by our students. Whether working in classrooms, pastoral teams, offices, support services or leadership roles, we all play a part in ensuring that every young person feels welcome, experiences success and is given every opportunity to thrive. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
• A culture of professional trust, collaboration and continual improvement.
• Purposeful professional development and opportunities to contribute to Trust-wide improvement.
• Leadership that listens, reviews systems and seeks to remove unnecessary barriers.
• A commitment to staff wellbeing and to creating the conditions in which great people can do their best work., Responsible for Supporting the Progress Leader with day-to-day pastoral care, student engagement, attendance and behaviour.
  
  The successful candidate will be subject to the Trust's safer recruitment procedures, including the appropriate pre-employment checks and an Enhanced DBS check.