Internal Alternative Provision Lead

Job Title: Internal Alternative Provision Lead

Location: Derby Cathedral School

Contract Type: Permanent

Start Date: 1st September 2026

Salary: MPS / UPS + plus TLR1a £10,181.00

Key Responsibilities and Qualities

• Line manage and support relevant staff in relation to the curriculum, discipline, classroom practice and professional development
• The ability to form good working relationships with colleagues and pupils
• The ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
• Confidence in leadership roles
• A commitment to continued professional development
• A desire and commitment to contribute to the wider school and its community
• A commitment protecting the welfare of young people
• An open mind to change and the unique circumstances found in a new and expanding school
• Be comfortable working within a challenging but rewarding environment
• Have excellent classroom and behaviour management, coupled with patience
• Ability to deliver lessons in their core specialist subject up to GCSE level, using creative and exciting methods
• Have basic understanding around the rest of the curriculum as a whole, to deliver lessons where required
• Ability to promote and reinforce positivity and social development by providing students with access to a variety of resources and new methods of learning
• Ability to provide and support colleagues with creating targets for development/implementation to show the progress that individual students make academically

Benefits

• Free on-site parking
• Free Westfield Health employee assistance programme
• Free annual flu jab
• Free on-site gym

DDAT welcomes a diverse population of both children and staff and is committed to promoting and developing equality of opportunity in all its functions. DDAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, online checks, pre employment and Disclosure Barring Service checks. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare any cautions, convictions, reprimands and final warnings that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020).