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Be the person who shapes their life

Do you want to work for an organisation who places your well-being and professional advancement front and centre? A place where you can make a true difference to the life of a young person? 

Here at Progress Schools, our dedication to your success is evident in the extensive range of benefits we provide. Our top-notch benefits and rewards package includes the likes of enhanced maternity and paternity leave, access to a whole host of well-being resources and robust a CPD programme. By joining our team, you step into a nurturing environment where your contributions are highly valued and your personal and professional growth is a top priority.

Our students often have complex needs and that means that some days will be more challenging than others. But by coming to work with us, the impact you will have on them and their future will be life changing. You will have the opportunity to transform their life. 

So, if you are a passionate, motivated, and committed professional who shared our passion for changing lives through the power of education, we'd love to hear from you. Our schools are committed to helping each of our students achieve their unique potential, by providing them the best levels of appropriate alternative education possible. If you want to be the game changer in their life, we'd love to meet you. 

What are some of the perks of working with us?

  • Investing in and caring for you

    We support each other by working together as one team with one collective goal. From team chats to a loads of engagement activities, you'll never feel alone. We also offer a brilliant professional development programme where we invest on average £3500 p/a in you. 

  • Your wellbeing is key

    Wellbeing is really important to us, so we provide access to loads of online resources, discounted gym memberships, a counsellor and much more. We are also constantly seeking ways to reduce admin time to give you more time with your pupils doing the thing you love. 

  • Take time out for you

    We think that taking time for you is really important, that's why we offer a generous holiday entitlement to support work/life balance for both delivery and non-delivery colleagues. We also offer additional leave for foster carers, flexibility wherever possible and loads more. Because everyone needs some R&R.

  • Look after your health

    We’ll set you up with Medicash on day one of working for us, and you can add up to four dependants to your policy too. Claim back costs of opticians, dental, prescriptions, complimentary therapies and much, much more.

  • Enjoy discounts and rewards

    You’ll get access to our brilliant retail discounts and rewards platform, MiRewards. Saving you money on your weekly shop, holidays, days out and more. You can also access discounted gym memberships as well as free online fitness classes. 

  • Planning for the future

    We enrol you and pay into your pension pot, with the option for you to top up your contribution if you wish. We also pay for a Life Assurance policy for you from day one of employment. This would pay 4x your salary to your nominee(s) should the worst happen whilst you were employed by us

  • Buy a bike (or car)

    You can purchase bikes or electric cars through salary sacrifice schemes (which means the payment comes out of your pay packet pre tax), providing a helping hand with the costs of buying a new set of (two or four) wheels!

  • We're award winning

    We're part of The Progress Group, a group of education and training specialists who has been named as a Times 100 Best Places to Work. This incredible accolade was achieved due to our colleague feedback for things like well-being, leadership, job satisfaction and more. 

To us, it's more than a job.

At Progress Schools, we champion our values driven culture that celebrates success, values growth, and is dedicated to making a positive impact in the lives of young people. We have a monthly peer-to-peer recognition, loads of opportunities for collaboration and sharing best practice and we encourage creativity and innovation. We believe that our people and our pupils deserve the best, so foster a culture of openness, inclusivity, flexibility, fun and trust. 

Why come and join us?

It takes a proudly passionate, endlessly kind, confident gamechanger to help us shape the lives of our students. You can meet some of our existing colleagues below and hear first-hand why they love working for us.

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What our colleagues say

We are constantly listening to colleague feedback, below are some of the results of our 23/24 colleague survey

% of colleagues agreed that they do something worthwhile
% of colleagues felt they are trusted to make decisions
% of colleagues had job satisfaction
% of colleagues said that they had a good relationship with their manager
% of colleagues enjoy their job
% of colleagues felt pride in their job

About Progress Schools

Progress Schools is a nationally based, alternative education provider with independent secondary schools located throughout England. We provide high-quality, supportive, and inspirational teaching to 11 – 16-year-olds at Key Stage 3 and 4. Our bespoke approach ensures positive progression either back into mainstream education, or into the world of further education, work-based learning, or employment when leaving us in Year 11.

Founded in 2016
Co-workers 100+

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