Guidance Leader
Uxbridge High School, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 2PR10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
22 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- UHS Associate Pay Scales Range 18 - 30 (actual salary £33,447 - £41,133pa inclusive of London weighting)
Guidance Leader job summary
Our School
Uxbridge High School is a vibrant and ambitious school delivering a gold standard education that enriches students academically, socially, and emotionally. Proud to Make Success Happen, we work with students, families, and staff to ensure every student reaches their potential. We take pride in our diverse and ambitious students, our dedicated staff, and strong community partnerships
Our PROUD values, Positive, Respectful, Open-minded, Unique and Determined, guide all aspects of school life.
Uxbridge High School Academy Trust is committed to creating an environment where staff feel supported, challenged, and valued. This is reflected in our gold standard approach to teaching, curriculum, and professional development. Our People Strategy. outlines how we invest in and value staff as an essential part of the school community.
The Department
The Guidance Leader Department at Uxbridge High School plays a vital role in supporting students’ personal, academic, and future development. The team provides a safe and supportive environment, offering guidance on wellbeing, behaviour, and emotional needs to help students feel secure and confident throughout their school journey.
They also support students in monitoring academic progress and setting achievable goals, ensuring everyone is encouraged to reach their full potential. In addition, the department offers advice and future planning support, helping students make informed decisions about subject choices and further education.
Overall, the department is essential in promoting both student wellbeing and success, preparing young people not only for their time at school but for their future beyond it.
The Role
The school is seeking to recruit a Guidance Leader to work with the Head of Learning (Year) and leadership team to co-ordinate the best possible educational experience for cohorts of students, namely a House (including students from Year 7 to Year 11). You will support and liaise with a group of tutors; you will work closely with external bodies such as social services and the education welfare service; you will arrange and attend parents’ evenings and other parental meetings; you will support the organisation and delivery of assemblies and house group events; and will be the first point of call for all pastoral issues relating to students in your house.
You will ideally be educated to a degree level, with up-to-date safeguarding training, and will have experience working in an educational environment and responsibility for the welfare and development of groups of children. You will have good organisational, interpersonal, and communication skills (both oral and written and be confident in public speaking in front of large numbers of students).
Please note that the school reserves the right to close this vacancy prior to the stated deadline should a sufficient number of applications be received. Early application is therefore strongly advised.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.
Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.
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 Uxbridge High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1345 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Uxbridge High School website
Uxbridge High School is an ambitious and dynamic converter academy with over 1,200 students aged 11 -18.
We have much to celebrate at Uxbridge High School including a committed and focused staff, outstanding facilities, strong relationships with the community and school partners, supportive Governors and a thriving Sixth Form.
We are delighted to be recognised by Alps in the top 20% of UK schools, celebrating outstanding Sixth Form student progress at A-level. We value the successes of every child, whatever their starting point. All of this takes place within a truly comprehensive and multicultural school that reflects life in modern Britain.
Our school values have been developed by students and staff, and form the basis of our ethos and culture.
All members of our school community subscribe and work towards always being: Positive, Respectful, Open-Minded, Unique, Determined: PROUD to Make Success Happen.
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