Assistant Learning Manager (temporary until 31 August 2027).
Salary (Actual Salary): £24,161.38 to £24,949.22.
Working Pattern: 37 Hours Per Week During Term Time Plus 5 Days.
Are you a highly skilled and adaptable professional ready to take on a complex role supporting student achievement across all learning platforms? Join us as an Assistant Learning Manager, where you will play a crucial role in supporting student learning, behaviour, and pastoral well-being to maximise overall attainment.
Working alongside Learning Managers and the Senior Leadership Team, you will deliver targeted interventions, monitor academic and behavioural progress through internal tracking systems, and act as a key contact for parents and safeguarding matters. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, adaptable individual to support diverse student needs, drive attendance initiatives, and foster a positive learning environment across the academy.
Thank you for your interest in Outwood Grange Academy.
I am so pleased you are looking at this fantastic opportunity to work at Outwood Grange Academy. Our larger-than-average 11-19 academy is in the heart of Outwood, Wakefield, with easy access to major towns and cities via the motorway network.
As the Founding Academy of the Outwood Grange Academies Trust, we embody the organisation's core ethos: making students our fundamental priority, raising standards, and transforming life chances.
I am truly proud of the work we do to ensure all aspects of education are of the highest possible quality. This is driven by our staff's unwavering dedication, their commitment to enabling every student to achieve their potential. We are passionate about the importance of CPD for our teachers as they are our greatest resource and are best placed to inspire students.
If this is a vision that resonates with you, I look forward to meeting you to discuss what you have to offer.
If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact Jessica Power (Lead Learning Manager) at J.Power@grange.outwood.com.
You will monitor assigned students academically, behaviourally, and pastorally using internal systems and data, delivering and tracking targeted interventions to support student attainment. A key aspect of the role involves serving as a main point of contact for behaviour management, responding to radio call-outs, managing detentions and support rooms, and liaising with Learning Managers and the Senior Leadership Team. Additionally, you will drive attendance and welfare initiatives through parent contact, truancy sweeps, and student collection, whilst recording safeguarding incidents, supervising key times of the school day, and assisting with out-of-academy events, trips, and parents' evenings.
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You must hold a Level 2 qualification in English and Maths (or equivalent) alongside prior experience of working in a school environment and a strong understanding of issues affecting young people. You will possess excellent verbal and written communication skills across diverse audiences, strong ICT proficiency, and the ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining strict confidentiality and following child safeguarding procedures. A sympathetic approach to supporting students, a willingness to undertake further professional development, and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check are essential.
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Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) places staff development at the heart of its strategy to deliver excellence, aiming to recruit, develop, and retain the best staff through the Outwood Institute of Education (OIE).
What will we do for you?
We offer a supportive package focusing on professional advancement, secure benefits, and work-life balance:
If you are looking for a rewarding, supportive role where you can truly make an impact, we encourage you to apply now.
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Please note, we reserve the right to close advertisements early, either on the advertised closing date, or sooner if required.
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
We are an award-winning multi-academy education trust with passion, purpose and people at our heart. We manage 41 transformative primary, junior, secondary and Post 16 schools up and down the North of England, from Redcar to Nottinghamshire, each celebrating very different identities but driven by a shared vision. Each academy is individually shaped around the community and children it serves.
We’re incredibly proud of how far our kind, creative and talented teachers and support staff go to make life better for our pupils and their families. It’s why we have built such a leading reputation in education and taken failing schools to Ofsted-rated outstanding in a record amount of time.
We are committed to putting students first, raising standards and transforming lives.
