Deputy Principal
Avanti Grange Secondary School, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2BD14 days remaining to apply
Earliest start date
1 September 2025
Latest start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
6 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Deputy headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Please see JD for further information.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L18 - L22
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Join the senior leadership team at Avanti Grange as Deputy Principal and play a pivotal role in shaping educational excellence and whole-school development. We are seeking an ambitious, values-driven leader to help drive attainment, champion high-quality teaching, and uphold our inclusive and aspirational ethos. This is a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact within the Avanti Schools Trust.
At Avanti Grange School, we believe in nurturing both hearts and minds. As our new Deputy Principal, you'll join a community where academic excellence, spiritual development, and personal growth go hand-in-hand. If you're an inspiring leader with a passion for inclusion, innovation, and high expectations, we would love to hear from you.
We are proud to have been recently graded Outstanding in all areas, reflecting our unwavering dedication to high-quality teaching, strong leadership, and exceptional student outcomes.
We have also been awarded the Gold Award by the Teacher Development Trust for the quality and culture of our professional development.
This means you’ll be working in an environment that invests in your growth, supports your ambitions, and values ongoing learning at every stage of your career. As a member of our team, you’ll be part of a school that not only strives for excellence but achieves it.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Drive high pupil attainment and progress through rigorous target-setting, monitoring, and collaboration with staff and external agencies.
- Lead and model outstanding teaching, supporting the development of staff through performance management, professional development, and recruitment.
- Develop and sustain a creative, inclusive curriculum and learning environment that excites learners and promotes high standards of behaviour and engagement.
- Ensure effective leadership through accountability, policy development, budget management, and strategic planning in alignment with the school’s vision and values.
- Foster a safe, supportive, and aspirational school culture by prioritising safeguarding, community partnerships, and a clear commitment to the school’s ethos.
What are we looking for?
- Qualified Teaching Status
- Proven experience in a leadership role within a secodary school or similar educational context
- Strong understanding of curriculum development, teaching methodologies, and assessment practices
- Ability to inspire, motivate, and lead a diverse group of students and staff
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
Avanti Grange is Bishop’s Stortford’s newest secondary school. Our state-of-the-art campus serves families from Stortford, Stanstead, Farnham and many other neighbouring villages. We are fortunate to have an incredible team of staff, that are creative, hard-working and inspired to develop leaders of the future.
Avanti Grange is a non-faith, co-educational, community school that embraces inclusion and diversity. “Working at Avanti Grange, has been a breath of fresh air, not only is it like a family, but the vision of the school is so clear, and everyone is working towards it.” - Maths Teacher
Further details about the role
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Avanti Grange Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 297 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Grange Secondary School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Grange is a school that is committed to giving all children an engaging and enriching educational experience. We provide a richly diverse and connected school environment, representative of the world that our pupils will enter. Our pupils mature into individuals who are ambitious, open-minded and confident. Along with our academic pathway, we also take care to support individual character formation and spiritual insight through The Avanti Way.
Each pupil at our school is celebrated for their individual talents. For our pupils’, school is about exploring strengths and developing academic and personal skills that will ensure that every child is well prepared for the quickly changing world that awaits them. It is our promise that we will create an environment of challenge, enjoyment and collaboration, both within our school and throughout the Avanti Schools Trust and beyond.
Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.
Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.
Arranging a visit to Avanti Grange Secondary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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