Progress Leader
Kingsdown School, Swindon, SN2 7SH10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
13 July 2026 at 9am
Date listed
3 July 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,140.00 - £30,725.00 Annually (Actual) Actual: £28,140-£30,725 (FTE: £31,537-£34,434) pay award pending
Progress Leader job summary
Start date: September 2026
Closing date: Monday 13th July
Shortlisting date: Monday 13th July
Interview date: Thursday 16th July
Contract: Permanent
Working hours: 37 hours per week
Working pattern: Term time, TD days plus 5 days (40 weeks) Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 4.10pm Monday - Thursday, 8.00am to 3.40pm Friday
Salary Range: Actual: £28,140-£30,725 (FTE: £31,537-£34,434) pay award pending
Kingsdown School is seeking an authentic and analytical professional to join our education support team as a Progress Leader. In this role, you will hold oversight for the progress, attendance, and behaviour of a single year group, staying with those students to guide them as they progress through each academic year of the school. This continuity allows you to build deep, meaningful partnerships with families and understand each student's development over time.
Working closely with our Attitudes & Engagement Lead Practitioner, you will act as the key link between tutors, teachers, families, and external agencies. This is a position for an established pastoral professional who values a structured environment where student well-being and academic progress are treated as inextricably linked.
Why This Role MattersOur support staff are pivotal in establishing a culture of high expectations and mutual respect across the school. As a Progress Leader, your early intervention when behaviour or attendance patterns change ensures that no student slips under the radar. By coordinating early help and structured behaviour plans, you directly protect the learning environment for everyone.
What You Will BringPastoral Experience: Proven experience working within a secondary school pastoral team is essential.
Intervention Expertise: The ability to plan, implement, and evaluate targeted interventions, such as Individual Behaviour Plans or Early Help Assessments.
Communication Skills: Exceptional professional communication skills when handling complex or sensitive situations with parents and external agencies.
High Standards: A commitment to being a visible role model, maintaining high standards during daily break and lunch duties, and coaching pupils on positive choices.
Safeguarding Knowledge: Level 3 Safeguarding/Child Protection training, or a willingness to complete this immediately.
The Kingsdown Difference
At Kingsdown School, we recognise that our support staff are integral to our educational mission. We offer a professional, stable environment where your workload is respected, and your contribution is visibly valued. You will join a friendly, established office team that balances high professional standards with genuine mutual support.
As part of the River Learning Trust, you will also benefit from excellent professional development alignment, networking opportunities with HR peers across our schools, and access to a comprehensive staff benefits package.
Compliance & SafeguardingKingsdown School is a member of the River Learning Trust (RLT). The River Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, satisfactory references, and medical clearance.
For more details, please see the Job Description in the attached pack. If you would like to know more about this opportunity, or to arrange visit or a call please contact recruitment@kingsdownschool.co.uk
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
The River Learning Trust and Kingsdown School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this List of offences that are not filtered.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Kingsdown School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1108 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kingsdown School website
Kingsdown is a mixed 11–16 Secondary School located in Stratton St Margaret, Swindon. It offers a vibrant learning environment, one in which its students take great pride in both their learning, their behaviour and their individual aspirations. Our teachers combine a high level of academic expertise with excellent teaching skills and a real and deep concern for the wellbeing of each and every student. Taken together, these allow us to recruit and retain the very best teachers.
Thank you for taking an interest in working with us at Kingsdown School. You are joining us at a very exciting time in our school’s history. At the end of January 2020, we had a two day Ofsted Inspection and were judged to be Good in all five categories under the new framework. This marked the end to over a decade of being judged Requires Improvement.
Kingsdown is a school that has been on a transformational journey. We had a two year P8 trend of -0.50 and this year we secured a P8 score of +0.04. We have also recently been shortlisted for the TES Secondary School of the Year award. Along with the Ofsted judgement, this transformation is truly wonderful for our students, our school and community. Now we are looking for talented and experienced colleagues to join our team as we journey to Outstanding.
Our vision for our school is “a school of excellence bursting with pride and ambition” and our mission statement is that we “champion each and every student”.
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