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Assistant Headteacher (Inclusion)
John Hampden Grammar School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 1SZ14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter 2027
Closing date
25 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £70,275.00 - £79,460.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Group Pay Range L12 – L17
Assistant Headteacher (Inclusion) job summary
John Hampden Grammar School is seeking an inspiring, strategic, and compassionate Assistant Headteacher (Inclusion) to join our Senior Leadership Team. Acting as our statutory SENDCo, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the whole-school strategic vision, ensuring that high-attaining students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) face no barriers to achieving their full academic and personal potential.
You will champion an inclusive culture of belonging while upholding the highest standards of academic excellence, attendance, and pastoral care.
The successful candidate will be an outstanding classroom practitioner with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and the NASENCO or NPQ for SENDCOs qualification (or a willingness to undertake it).
Teaching: 15 periods per fortnight
Starting: Summer Term 2027
We offer:
An established centre of academic excellence with an exceptional record in sport, music and community involvement
Motivated and ambitious students
A friendly and supportive team of teachers and support staff
A positive, caring and collaborative working environment
A commitment to professional development
The school reserves the right to change these dates, and to close the vacancy at any time, so early application is advised.
JHGS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are required, before taking up post, to undertake an enhanced criminal record check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Candidates for teaching and support staff posts will be assessed at interview for their suitability to work with children. Appointment is conditional upon at least two satisfactory references which include specific comments on working with children and young people. All staff at the school have a responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of students at the school.
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.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
John Hampden Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to pre-employment vetting checks which include an audit of social media presence and an Enhanced DBS check. John Hampden Grammar School is an equal opportunities employer.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About John Hampden Grammar School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1281 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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John Hampden Grammar School is remarkable. We seek to give our young men the personal qualities as well as the qualifications to carve out their own bold paths into the future. As you would expect, a challenging academic education is at the heart of what we do. John Hampden is an outstanding school with exceptional academic success. But in a changing world our young men will need more. They will need character, spirit, resilience. They will need to lead, to inspire, to take responsibility. They will need to care, collaborate and create. This is what we mean by #BeMore at John Hampden. We support every individual to build these qualities necessary for happy, successful and fulfilled lives, ‘Big lives’ as one of our students recently described it.
Our exam results are excellent at GCSE and A level and place us amongst the top performing schools in the country. These results equip our students to succeed at the best Universities in Britain and abroad, to secure places on ultra competitive level 3 apprenticeships and even to set up their own companies upon leaving the Sixth Form. Over 125 years ago JHGS was educating young men and women to work in the Wycombe Furniture Industry. Today, we maintain strong links with many local and global companies, preparing our students to succeed and lead in a rapidly changing global economy. Alongside the academic rigour of the taught curriculum the #BeMore campaign develops in the boys “soft skills” to succeed as a JHGS Learner and in the future world of work.
Our parents praise our commitment to genuinely caring for their son and believe it is what makes JHGS unique.
JHGS is a forward thinking, innovative school which embraces technology to support and promote learning and personal development. We have recently opened our new Design Technology studio and workshops, 2 new Science labs and in Autumn 2021 we have opened our brand new £3.5m Innovation Hub of learning spaces and IT suites. This now houses our Maths, Business, Economics and Psychology departments and will be a true Innovation Hub for the 21st Century.
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