Assistant Vice Principal: Student Experience

Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LE

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter 2026

• Closing date

  13 February 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  22 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £69,620.00 - £80,683.88 Annually (Actual) L13 - L19

Assistant Vice Principal: Student Experience job summary

We are looking to appoint two senior leaders who will join our student experience team. The senior management team comprises of two Vice Principals who focus upon Student Achievement or Student Experience. Assistant Vice Principals support them to lead the strategic and operational development of each function. The Senior Management Team also comprises of a full time SENCO and a nonteaching full time DSL. Along with the AVP: Student Development the successful candidates will deliver the Student Experience strategy of ESF at Grace College, which focuses on ensuring all pupils can attend well, behave well and feel that they belong to Team Grace and ESF by removing any barriers which may prevent this.

Responsible to the Vice Principal: Student Support and Development for:

Ensuring the climate in college is safe, welcoming and focused upon learning with a particular emphasis on:

• ensuring that all students consistently show respect for all and exercise self-discipline including before and after the college day through the leadership of relentless routines including the welcome and departure phase, lesson changeover and engaging social time procedures and activities;
• working directly with other senior leader to ensure that absence or lack of engagement is identified early and for this barriers are addressed effectively so that all students can achieve a personal best.
• engage in line management of an academic department ensuring that the quality of teaching is exemplary and monitoring student experience in this area.

Leading and championing the Team Grace culture so that the student experience fosters a sense of pride and belonging to our community meaning students attend well and behave well:

• regularly monitoring and analysing student experience data such as behaviour and attendance to identify emerging barriers ensuring that timely intervention, support and appropriate challenge improves behaviour and attendance data over time.
• overseeing and directing student experience support staff so that intervention to address barriers to attendance and behaviour are consistently highly effective.
• Overseeing the student praise and recognition systems and processes to ensure a culture of relentlessly positivity.

Supporting the Principal to lead the strategic aims and objectives of the trust and school ensuring that:

• policies and procedures reflect the objectives and values of the organisation, ensuring the are implemented consistently and effectively;
• managing resources and monitoring progress towards achieving objectives taking swift action to address areas for improvement;
• If the Principal or Vice Principals are absent or unavailable carry out the duties and responsibilities as requested. Fulfil any other duties reasonable required by the Principal including an appropriate amount of classroom teaching.

Further information is available in the job description and person specification.

Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Daily lunch allowance
• Free parking
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)

Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.

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 Grace College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1146 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Grace College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/grace-college

As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.

We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike. Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.

Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career. We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations. Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.

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