Assistant Headteacher (Personal Development and 6th Form) - The Grange School
Location: Aylesbury
Overview
The Grange is 'More Than Just a School'. We are a supportive team with community at the heart of everything we do. Passion, creativity and inspiring a love of learning are celebrated and embraced. Our relentless professional commitment to supporting and empowering students is both valued and rewarded.
Salary: Leadership Spine
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Start: September 2026
Closing date: Friday 1st May 2026
About us
Judged to be a Good School by Ofsted in April 2024, we are a mixed, non-selective 11-18 Foundation secondary school situated in the market town of Aylesbury and ten minutes from the Chiltern Hills – an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Oxford, High Wycombe and Milton Keynes and surrounded by delightful market towns and characterful villages. The students and staff at The Grange School make it a fantastic place to work. Our students are friendly and confident, and we strive to ensure that they achieve the success that they deserve. Together we have created a successful community school, where students learn the skills for success.
We support our staff with a robust staff well-being programme. All staff have access to a wealth of free support resources and materials to ensure they feel supported and happy.
We provide an excellent induction programme and a wide range of development opportunities for all staff.
Website: https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/
About the role
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Headteacher who will have whole school responsibility for Personal Development and 6th Form.
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding practitioner and inspirational leader to play a major role in our thriving, popular school.
Please see attached Job description for further information.
About you
The successful candidate will have energy, ambition, varied experience and a proven track record of raising achievement.
The applicant should have exceptional interpersonal skills and demonstrate a commitment to every student achieving their potential.
Please see attached Person specification for further information.
Other information
Visits to the school are welcomed. Further details are available from the school website.
Apply via: https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/contact-us/vacancies
Applications will be considered upon receipt, and interviews can take place at any time. The school reserves the right to close this post at an earlier date should a successful appointment be made.
The school is committed to ensuring that safeguarding is a top priority and will consider carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence. Online searches solely aim to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school may want to explore with the applicant at interview. Please follow this link for more details: https://www.grange.bucks.sch.uk/contact-us/vacancies/online-searches-on-shortlisted-candidates
We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or religion.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students, thus an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions 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 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
