Key Stage Leader - The Grange School
Location: Aylesbury
Overview
We are looking for a Key Stage Leader to join our team from September 2026. We are looking for someone who is passionate about inspiring students to achieve their full potential.
Salary: MPS/UPS (TLR 1.2 £12,488)
Start date: September 2026
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 21 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 for a Key Stage Leader to join our team from September 2026.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about inspiring students to achieve their full potential.
Please see attached Job description for further information.
About you
The successful candidate will be responsible for the professional leadership and management of a Key Stage in order to secure high quality pastoral care, behaviour management, and attendance in securing good achievement for all students.
The successful candidate will also be expected to teach within their subject specialist area across all Key Stages.
You will have the energy, enthusiasm, and flexibility to work with a highly dedicated team pastoral team or Year Leaders and form tutors and work in partnership with the other Key Stage Leader and the Deputy Headteacher Pastoral.
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: Vacancies - The Grange School
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.
