Pastoral Support Assistant - The Grange School

Overview

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.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 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

Closing date: Tuesday, 1st September 2026

Start date: September/October 2026

The school reserves the right to close this post at an earlier date should a successful appointment be made.

About us

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 provide an excellent induction programme and a wide range of development opportunities for all staff.

Website: The Grange School

About the role

About you

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.

Other information

Visits to the school are welcomed. Further details are available from the school website. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or religion. 

Applications will be considered upon receipt, and interviews can take place at any time.

Apply via Vacancies - The Grange School

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

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.