Pastoral Support Assistant

The Grange School, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7NH

27 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September/October 2026

• Closing date

  1 September 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  5 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: 34.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year, term time only plus 5 INSET days 8.00am – 3.30pm Monday – Thursday, 8.00am – 3.00pm Friday Bucks Pay Range 3: £29,114 (£23,023 pro rata) - £31,230 (£24,696 pro rata) approximately.
• Additional allowances:

  34.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year, term time only plus 5 INSET days 8.00am – 3.30pm Monday – Thursday, 8.00am – 3.00pm Friday Bucks Pay Range 3: £29,114 (£23,023 pro rata) - £31,230 (£24,696 pro rata) approximately.

Pastoral Support Assistant job summary

Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you relish the chance to support colleagues to make rapid sustained school improvement? If so, The Grange School has the perfect opportunity for you!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join The Grange School Pastoral Team.

We are seeking to appoint a Pastoral Support Assistant to assist with the work we do across the school in looking after our children, enabling them to learn in a happy and safe environment. This role is crucial in helping us to increase capacity and support the Pastoral Team in running a smooth and efficient service to ensure all students receive the care they need to thrive.

The role will require the successful candidate to work with all school stakeholders including, students, parents, staff and outside agencies. For this role, you would need to have good communication skills, an empathetic approach to dealing with situations, well organised and be able to prioritise workload. The ability to work on their own initiative, as well as part of a team is essential.

The successful candidate will be confident with the use of Microsoft Office, able to remain professional when handling confidential material, be an excellent communicator and ideally, have experience of working in a school or busy environment.

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.

Visits to the school are welcomed. Further details are available on 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.

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

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

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1418 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• 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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