Grade 8, SCP 24-27 37 hours per week Term Time Only, 39 weeks per year Required September 2025 Fixed Term until 31st August 2026 Kinver High School is seeking to appoint an inspirational and ambitious Thrive Alternative Provision Centre Manager to join our ‘warm and welcoming school’ where ‘pupils behave well in lessons’ and ‘are polite and courteous’ (Ofsted Dec 21). The ideal candidate will share our student-centered values and be an engaging and proactive person with a passion for lifelong learning. You must firmly believe and be driven to ensure that every student regardless of starting point, can achieve success, enjoy school, and be engaged with wider school life, to become the best that they can be. Thrive is a specialist resource provision base that is part of Kinver High School and Sixth Form Centre, based in Kinver in South Staffordshire. We welcome students from all over the West Midlands. Currently we offer a bespoke provision for 30 students, across all key stages. Our centre opened in November 2024 and has the support of the Local Authority and is one of the designated ‘alternative’ learning centres for children within the South Staffordshire region who require a more tailored and personalised approach to curriculum learning than that which is offered in mainstream schools. Our vision at Thrive is that every child can be successful. We recognise that intelligence comes in many forms and our overriding purpose is to ensure that no child is ‘lost’ or forgotten within the education system. We seek to offer something different, an alternative to the norm and a more bespoke, but equally challenging experience. We believe that with the right curriculum, with the right support and with highly skilled staff, all students can ‘Engage, Succeed, Aspire to Lead’ and ultimately ‘Thrive’! If you think as we do, then we would love to hear from you. We are sure that once you visit us and meet our students, you’ll find that we are the school for you and your career journey, our CPD through school and in partnership with Invictus is exemplary. We would strongly encourage you to get in touch and arrange a visit. We want the very best teachers for our students and look forward finding out if you are that person. Please contact Mrs Sophie Roberts Associate Assistant Headteacher: sroberts@Kinverhigh.co.uk to arrange a visit or request further details. We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. Interviews due to take place: to be confirmed In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, as a part of our recruitment process, we will carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to identify any comment, image or other content that could cause reputational damage to the trust and/or give rise to a safeguarding concern. If we discover anything during our searches this will be passed onto the recruitment manager and discussed during interview. We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2024 – KCSIE 2024 This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974. Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance/dbs-filtering-guide As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.