13 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    June 2026

  • Closing date

    6 May 2026 at 9am

  • Date listed

    22 April 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£25,109.00 - £25,907.00 Annually (Actual) Band 4b (SCP 11 to SCP 12) £28,634 - £29,544 (FTE Salary) / £25,109 - £25,907 (Actual Salary)

Progress Mentor job summary

Roles: Progress Mentor (2 positions available)

Salary: £25,109 - £25,907 (Actual Salary), Band 4b (SCP 11 to SCP 12)

FTE Salary: £28,634 - £29,544

Contract type: (1 x 12-month Maternity Cover position available and 1 x Permanent position available - Full Time - Term Time plus 1 week)

Reporting to: Progress Mentor Manager

Start date: June 2026

About Us

This is an exciting time to be joining the Sir John Brunner Foundation. Our Multi-Academy Trust educates more than 4300 children and young people and employs over 450 professionals. Each of our four good and outstanding academies operates at the heart of their local community.

Our mission is to enhance students’ lives through the highest standards of education underpinned by our Trust values of Excellence, Belonging and Partnership.

The Multi-Academy Trust incorporates:

  • The County High School, Leftwich.
  • Middlewich High School.
  • Sir John Deane’s Sixth Form College.
  • Macclesfield Academy.

The Sir John Brunner Foundation has a proud legacy of educational excellence dating back to 1557. We remain firmly focused on children, providing a first-class experience that nurtures curiosity, confidence, and joy in learning. In working with our communities, we create an environment where every child feels valued, safe, and supported to reach their potential.

The Foundation’s Head Office is based at the Sir John Deane’s College campus in Northwich.

This role is based at Sir John Deane’s Sixth Form College; the country’s leading sixth form college. It is an excellent place to work where colleagues are recognised for their hard work and supported to develop professionally.

We foster a strong ethos of ambition and aspiration in all aspects of College life which means our students are hardworking and extremely well behaved. Our students are supported by dedicated pastoral and learning support teams who have an important role in facilitating our inclusive offer.

The College has exemplary teaching, learning and recreational facilities contained within a beautiful campus.

About the Role

Progress Mentors will support the pastoral, social and emotional needs of students to include delivery of tutorials, wellbeing support and advice and guidance. They will be required to track and monitor student achievement, retention and attendance rates and take action to support improvement where necessary.

Progress Mentors are responsible for addressing the achievement gap between those students with a protected characteristic, including those who are in receipt of Free School Meals or the bursary, and the wider student population.

Your Responsibilities

  • Please refer to the job description attached.

What we are looking for

  • Experience of working with children
  • Ideally you will have proven success in improving student outcomes in a school or college.
  • An ability to build effective working relationships with both students and adults
  • A commitment to getting the best outcomes for students and promoting the ethos of the college.

Closing Date: Wednesday 6th May 2026 - 9am

Interview Date: Monday 11th May 2026

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Progress Mentor, please complete the application form today! You are strongly encouraged to get your application form submitted at the earliest opportunity, as we reserve the right to close our adverts earlier than advertised where sufficient applications have been received.

We’d love to hear from you!

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant must have enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references. The school is an equal opportunities employer.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
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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

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About Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College

School type
Academy, ages 16 to 19
Education phase
Sixth form or college
School size
0 pupils enrolled
Age range
16 to 19
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Sixth Form College

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