Progress Lead / Cover Supervisor
Millfield Science & Performing Arts College, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, FY5 5DG26 days remaining to apply
Job start date
13 April 2026
Closing date
23 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
27 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week. 39 weeks per year, including inset days. Term time only.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 7. £27,899 - £31, 643
What skills and experience we're looking for
Shape Futures Beyond the Classroom
Join Millfield’s Pastoral Team
Progress Lead/Cover Supervisor
Grade 7 (Points 19–25) Term-Time Only Start date: ASAP
Closing date: 23rd February 2026 Interview date: 2nd March 2026
Do you want a role where every day you make a visible difference to young people’s lives?
Millfield is a vibrant, oversubscribed 11–16 secondary school with an exceptional reputation for behaviour, attendance, wellbeing and pastoral care. We are seeking a passionate, resilient and ambitious Progress Lead to join our dynamic Pastoral Team and play a pivotal role in supporting students to flourish both personally and academically.
This is a high‑impact, non‑teaching role for someone who believes that strong relationships, consistency and high expectations can transform life chances.
Why Millfield?
- Award‑winning provision: Nationally recognised awards for Behaviour, Attendance, Wellbeing, SEND, Careers and CPL.
- Outstanding culture: Behaviour is calm, consistent and widely recognised as exceptional. Our students are a delight to work with; they are respectful and kind.
- Strong team ethos: Staff collaborate through shared practice and strong teamwork; morale is high.
- Ambition for all: Background is never a barrier; we are relentless in creating bright futures for every student.
- Oversubscribed and outward‑facing: A school of choice for our community for over 15 years.
The Role
As a Progress Lead, you will take strategic responsibility for a year group of approximately 175 students, supporting them throughout their journey until they leave us in Year 11.
You will be a key pastoral leader, working alongside Form Tutors, teaching staff, families and external agencies to remove barriers to learning and ensure students attend well, behave well and feel safe, supported and motivated.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the pastoral support and progress of your year group
- Building strong, professional relationships with students and families
- Monitoring attendance, behaviour and wellbeing, and implementing timely interventions
- Supporting reintegration following periods of absence
- Delivering high‑quality assemblies and contributing to form time provision
- Managing and supporting Form Tutors to ensure consistency and high standards
- Working closely with the Behaviour and Progress Manager and Family Support Worker
- Liaising with external agencies to support vulnerable students
- Contributing to a calm, orderly school environment through visible presence
You will also undertake Cover Supervisor duties, delivering pre‑planned lessons across the school when required, enabling you to build positive relationships with students beyond your year group.
Who We’re Looking For
This role would suit someone who:
- Has experience working with young people, ideally in an educational or pastoral setting
- Is confident, calm and consistent, with high expectations of behaviour and conduct
- Can balance empathy with firmness and professionalism
- Communicates effectively with students, families and colleagues
- Is organised, reflective and solution‑focused
- Shares our commitment to safeguarding, inclusion and equality
You do not need to be a qualified teacher; what matters most is character, credibility and commitment.
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer
- A highly respected pastoral team with strong systems and leadership support
- Award‑winning CPL and opportunities to complete the Millfield Leadership Pathway
- A strong wellbeing offer, including external health support
- Four home‑based INSET days per year
- Free laptop, flu vaccination and NHS health checks
- Cycle to work scheme
- A visible, supportive Senior Leadership Team committed to reducing workload
- Enthusiastic students who enjoy coming to school and want to succeed
Join Us
If you are looking for a role where you can say at the end of each day “I made a difference”, Millfield could be the place for you.
To arrange a visit or informal conversation, please contact the Headteacher’s PA, Mrs Hall, on 01253 865929 or email admin@millfield.lancs.sch.uk.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
At Millfield, the welfare of the child is paramount. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All staff should understand their responsibility to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
Attitudes towards promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people will be scrutinised during the selection process for the post that you have applied for.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Millfield Science & Performing Arts College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 873 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Millfield Science & Performing Arts College website
- Email address
- admin@millfield.lancs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01253865929
We are a small, family school with around 850 students in roll. The school is hugely popular; some of our families have even moved to ensure they are in our catchment area, and we have been vastly oversubscribed for the last ten years. Behaviour at Millfield is excellent and there is a real belief in the Team Millfield ethos.
The school is proud to have won the Secondary School National Pupil Premium award in 2014 and in 2015 the Chief of Ofsted chose to visit us, the only secondary school in the North West, and said our students were ‘delightful’. In May 2017 Ofsted confirmed that we continue to be a ‘good’ school and leadership at Millfield remains ‘outstanding’. Our Progress 8 results in 2017 were the best on the Fylde Coast. With a new curriculum model planned for September 2019 we look to continue to ‘Create Bright Futures’ for all our students.
Arranging a visit to Millfield Science & Performing Arts College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@millfield.lancs.sch.uk.
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