Mount Grace School
Hertfordshire
Salary:
Leadership Pay Scale (Fringe) L14 – L18
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
13 October 2025
Job overview
Vice Principal
Employment type: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 13th October 2025
Interview date: 16th October 2025
Start date: January 2026
Salary: Leadership Pay Scale (Fringe) L14 – L18
To apply: Please head to the Future Academies website:
We are delighted to share that Mount Grace School is expected to join Future Academies from 1st November 2025, marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter in the school's journey. As we prepare for this important transition, we are now seeking to appoint a Vice Principal to join our senior leadership team from January 2026.
This is a pivotal leadership role at a time of strategic change, offering a rare and exciting opportunity to help shape the future direction of the school as it becomes part of the Future Academies Trust. The successful candidate will play a key role in driving school improvement, embedding high expectations, and ensuring that the values and vision of the Trust are realised at Mount Grace.
As Vice Principal, you will report directly to the Principal and will deputise as and when required. You will support the Principal with the overall management of the school, ensuring that all aspects of the schools' day-to-day operations are aligned with its vision and values. You will also be responsible for ensuring that that the highest academic and professional standards are always maintained.
About us:
Mount Grace School is a thriving 11–18 co-educational academy set within 17 acres of beautiful grounds in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. We are proud to be an inclusive, first-choice community school where students are supported to achieve ambitiously through high expectations, excellent teaching, and strong character development.
Future Academies is a flourishing multi-academy trust, founded with the aim of improving the life chances and raising the aspirations of young people. We offer a rich and stimulating education comprised of a knowledge-rich curriculum, diverse cultural and extracurricular opportunities, and a strong pastoral support system. All children and young people are welcomed in our inclusive community, and all are challenged to be the best they can be. This ethos is embodied in our Trust values -Knowledge, Aspiration, and Respect - and in our motto, libertas per cultum ("freedom through education").
Future Academies recognises its employees as the most important asset and critical to its success.
To demonstrate this all staff are offered the following benefits:
* A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues.
* Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression.
* Employer Contributions to Local Government or Teachers Pension Scheme.
* Mintago – access to numerous cost saving employee benefits including fantastic cost savings on childcare.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Access to a Virtual GP
Please refer to the recruitment pack attached for the full job description and person specification.
Visits to our school are warmly welcome Please contact to arrange a mutually convenient appointment.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship for this role and interviews will be held face to face.
Mount Grace School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check as well as other pre-appointment checks, including an online search check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2023).
Mount Grace School is committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.
About Mount Grace School
Mount Grace School
Church Road, Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 1EZ
United Kingdom
Mount Grace School is a co-educational, comprehensive 11-18 Academy set on 20 acres of beautiful grounds in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.
We are an inclusive, first choice community school that cares for and meets the needs of all its students, who achieve ambitiously as a result of great expectations and excellent teaching. We build strong character to support students to navigate the world around them so that they can lead happy, successful and healthy lives.
We offer a highly effective, knowledge-engaged, curriculum consistently driven by the explicit teaching of vocabulary and reading. Our teaching is informed by educational research into how children acquire and retain knowledge and it is enhanced by exceptional character development. As a result, children develop skills so that they can embrace the challenges and demands of future work and life.
Our motto 'Res Non Verba' (Latin for 'Deeds not Words') reminds us that we have to act on our ambitions. Our aim is clear: we want to be an outstanding school where students excel academically, create positive memories, make meaningful connections and develop a strong virtuous character so that they flourish and succeed in all areas of life. To realise our vision we insist on strict standards of behaviour and courtesy that enable all to achieve, feel safe, be proud to belong and contribute positively to the school and the wider world.
Being a relatively small secondary school, we are proud of our personalised programme of support for young people. We acknowledge and break down physical, emotional and perceived barriers to success and seek to support individuals with their personal goals and ambitions. Our pastoral and mental health support is well resourced with expertise that understands the impact that nurturing a positive self-esteem can have on a child's life chances. This, matched with the highest expectations for learning, reading and oracy as well as an ethos that promotes growth mindsets, means that all students can excel regardless of how low the starting point or how high the goal. But we don't do this alone. We have a highly supportive parent, carer and community voice behind us and robust network of professional partners who work with us to enrich the child's experience and ensure they thrive.
I am immensely proud of our successes and the significant progress we have made in recent years. There have been measurable improvements across all areas of our school as well as the physical improvements from ongoing investment to our learning environment.
Headteacher
Geeta Patel
Values and vision
Proud to Belong: At the heart of our ethos and values is the drive to create an inclusive environment where every student, staff member, parent, and community partner feels valued and proud to be part of our school. We cultivate positive self-esteem and high levels of wellbeing by insisting that both adults and children in the school take personal pride in delivering excellence.
An Ambitious Curriculum: This commitment is reflected in our rich and engaging curriculum, designed to challenge and inspire our students to achieve academic excellence. We provide a broad and balanced range of subjects, holding a parity of esteem between the traditionally academic subjects and the creative and practical ones.
Our Character Virtues: Beyond academic achievement, we place a strong emphasis on character development. Through our virtues-led approach, we ensure that character building is a deliberate and integral part of school life. Character virtues are explicitly taught and demonstrated within the curriculum, pastoral programme and through our enrichment offering.
Thinkers and Speakers: We believe in the transformative power of knowledge to open doors, enhance self-esteem and improvement life chances so that children truly achieve freedom through education. We encourage children to articulate their learning effectively and develop as confident thinkers and speakers who engage thoughtfully and critically with the vast array of information they will encounter in both life and work.
Enrichment and Opportunity: We are proud of our child-led enrichment offer and tailor bespoke programmes to meet the needs and interests of our children. This runs in parallel to us acting on our responsibility to ensure that children have the desire to experience beyond their comfort zones and sphere of familiarity. We organise trips to local, national and global destinations, organise workshops for music and drama and support children to access sports, STEM activities, competitions, cultural experiences and more.
Ofsted 2022
…Pupils have a variety of places they can go if they have a worry or concern, such as the 'pastoral hub' or 'oasis centre'. They know that staff will listen and try to help with any bullying issues. Most pupils feel happy and safe…
…Pupils learn an ambitious curriculum, where they build up their knowledge over time. They are enthused by the practical activities they get to do in subjects like design and technology, and the whole school musical production…
…Leaders have ensured that teachers have been involved in the design of the curriculum. As a result, in all subjects, teachers have carefully planned the key knowledge they want pupils to learn. Leaders have also ensured that the curriculum offered is sufficiently broad and balanced. This includes a suitable balance of vocational and academic options in the sixth form…
…Leaders have implemented an effective whole-school focus on reading. This includes an appropriate progression of high-quality texts in the English curriculum and regular opportunities for pupils to participate in guided reading during form time. Those at the earlier stages of reading receive specific intervention support…
…Pupils have access to a wide variety of clubs and opportunities, including participating in musical and sporting activities and going on trips. Pupils joining the school are made to feel comfortable, especially through the summer school that is on offer…
…Leaders have ensured the school has an appropriate programme for personal, social and health education. Pupils are taught about relationships and fundamental British values. Careers education is well developed in the sixth form. Sixth-form students receive appropriate advice and guidance…
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