Job Description

Outwood Grange Academy

Role: Internal Alternative Provision Coordinator.

Salary (Actual Salary): £24,872.36 to £25,691.64

Hours: 37 Hours Per Week (During Term Time + 5 days)

Start Date: 01/09/2026

Are you ready to be a champion for student success? Join us as an Internal Alternative Provision Coordinator, where you will play a critical role in supporting students who are at risk of suspension due to challenging behaviour. Your focus will be on promoting positive discipline, raising student aspirations, and ensuring they continue to make academic progress while working towards a successful return to mainstream lessons. This position is perfect for someone passionate about removing academic and behavioural barriers to learning, ensuring all students thrive in a supportive educational setting.

This is a permanent role and the working pattern is Monday to Thursday, 08:00am until 04:00pm and Fridays 08:00am until 03:30pm.

Key Responsibilities:

• Student Support & Guided Teaching: Plan and deliver structured opportunities, guided teaching, and 1:1 or small group sessions focused on academic progress, social skills, resilience, and self-confidence.
• Behaviour & Wellbeing Intervention: Deliver targeted interventions addressing students' social, emotional, and mental health needs, reinforcing the core values of being safe, respectful, and responsible.
• Reintegration & Monitoring: Adapt student timetables to facilitate their return to mainstream education. Conduct lesson visits and provide academic mentoring to support reintegration and prevent repeat referrals.
• Collaboration & Strategy: Work closely with Learning Managers, the Inclusion Team, and senior leadership to develop referral processes and implement effective intervention strategies.
• Communication: Maintain regular contact with parents and carers to provide feedback, and collaborate with academy staff to share effective classroom strategies for student success.
• Administration Assist with after-school detentions by coordinating learning activities, and maintain up-to-date student records using SIMs, oCloud, and Praising Stars.

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Welcome from the Principal:

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.

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If you have any questions or would like to visit the school, please contact HR@grange.outwood.com.