Assistant Headteacher - Personal Development and 6th Form

The Grange School, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7NH

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  2 May 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  17 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Leadership Spine
• Additional allowances:

  Leadership Spine

Assistant Headteacher - Personal Development and 6th Form job summary

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

Visits to the school are welcomed. Further details and application packs are available from the school or by visiting our website. 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. 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

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

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

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.

About The Grange School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1429 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Grange School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-grange-school

ABOUT THE GRANGE SCHOOL

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 are a supportive team with community sitting at the heart of everything we do. A community where passion, creativity and inspiring a love of learning are celebrated and embraced. Where your relentless professional commitment to supporting and empowering students is both valued and rewarded.

Our Aims:
We aim to equip all students with the adaptability and flexibility to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world and to promote a sense of responsibility towards others, the school and the wider community. The support and guidance of students is based on a Year system and aims to develop co-operation, involvement and respect in all students.

A broad and balanced curriculum is provided for Years 7 to 9. In Years 10 and 11, all students will study English, Mathematics, Science, PE, RE and PSHCE (Personal, Social & Health and Citizenship Education). Students can then choose from a range of additional GCSE, BTEC and vocational courses. We offer a range of traditional and vocational courses at Key Stage 5. The curriculum in all Key Stages is further enhanced through wide ranging extra-curricular experiences.

We aim to attract energetic and conscientious staff who have a commitment to the education of our students. The professional development of all staff is an important focus for the school. We strive to create a learning environment, which serves the needs of all the members of our diverse and vibrant community.

The Grange is more than just a school:
- We are the enablers for young people to overcome the barriers of selection and facilitate them to fulfil their academic potential, creative talent and sporting capabilities.

- We are a flourishing community based on an ethos of mutual respect. Where collaboration to create a culture of self-confidence enables both students and staff to flourish. Where a broad and balanced curriculum, a pioneering transition timetable, wide-ranging extra-curricular programme and an established reputation for outstanding pastoral care creates confident and responsible young people, who are well adjusted to meet the ever-changing demands of the 21st century.

- We are a team that values your personal development through our innovative CPDopoly programme. Where our weekly “sharing good practice” sessions allow us to collectively expand and develop unique and innovative teaching practices to further inspire our students.

- We are an environment that understands the importance of downtime for our staff. Where our dynamic Staff Social Committee prides itself on offering a varied programme of social activities and events to allow the opportunity to relax and have fun as a team.
Staff Well-being at The Grange

The Grange takes staff well being seriously. We are committed to and have signed up to the DfE Education Staff wellbeing Charter. We have an active staff wellbeing working party, which is open to all staff to join and meet regularly to talk about staff wellbeing needs across the school.

There is an active staffroom, where people go at break and lunch and regular staff lunches. In addition, there are staff activities should you wish to join, such as book club, sport, yoga, walking trips, visits to the theatre and art and craft activities and workshops.

As part of Buckinghamshire County Council, we are also able to access a number of discounts with local and national companies, including reduced train fare, restaurants and shops.

We have a team of staff that are identified as the listening ear team who can support and signpost staff, if and when needed.

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