Care Support Assistant (Residential)

Valence School, Westerham, Kent, TN16 1QN

48 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  31 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £13.50 Hourly £14,716 gross p.a.

Care Support Assistant (Residential) job summary

Part-time : Term Time Only : Permanent

£13.50 per hour for 39 working weeks plus 6.4 weeks paid holiday

Monday to Thursday : 3.30pm to 9.30pm : 24 hours per week : £14,716 gross p.a.

Are you compassionate, patient and looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference?

We are seeking a Care Support Assistant to join our dedicated team, supporting students with physical disabilities and complex needs. Your role will focus on assisting with personal care, eating and drinking, and promoting independence.

No prior experience is necessary—full training is provided. What matters most is your genuine desire to support and care for our students.

What You’ll Do:

• Assist students with eating, drinking, and personal care

• Promote independence and support learning

• Provide care in a safe, respectful and nurturing environment

• Help students achieve their full potential in our residential provision

What We’re Looking For:

• A caring and committed individual

• Willingness to learn and be part of a supportive team

• A passion for making a positive impact on young people’s lives

What We Offer:

• A friendly, supportive working environment in a countryside setting

• Generous pension scheme and life cover

• Staff well-being sessions and support

• Retail discounts and subsidised meals

• Free on-site parking

• Full training and development opportunities

You can make a difference. Join us and help shape brighter futures every day.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy, interview and appoint earlier if we receive sufficient applications for this role.

Valence School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of every student and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Valence School is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all.

References will be taken up before interview and online checks undertaken for shortlisted candidates. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check (this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act).

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

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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 Valence School

• School type: Special school, ages 4 to 19
• School size: 132 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Valence School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/valence-school

We are proud to share with you the excellent work we do with children and young people who have physical disabilities and complex medical needs. Our school is unique within the maintained sector in the whole of southern England. We cater for students aged 4 to 19 and have both day and boarding places. We have a large site with high quality teaching, social care and health care facilities. A staff team of over 200 people provides specialist teaching, social care, therapies and nursing care to an exceptionally high standard.

Our overall aim is to enable every child and young person to achieve meaningful independence. Students flourish in a supportive but challenging environment, making good educational progress and achieving a range of accreditation as they get older. There is excellent support to enable students to achieve functional communication, mobility and skills for daily living.

We are a Foundation Special School and are part of the Kent SEN Trust, a cooperative trust of ten schools working together to improve outcomes for all the children and young people attending the schools. In 2008 Valence became a specialist Sports College and this status plays a significant role in raising students’ achievements and their participation in high quality physical education and sport.

The School works proactively with parents and external professionals to provide holistic support for every child and young person. It is also developing high quality outreach support services to local schools and more widely for children and young people in Kent who have physical disabilities who are attending mainstream schools.

The School always places children and young people at the centre of all decisions it takes and it has a relentless focus on achieving the best possible outcomes for every student.

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