Community Charity Shop Manager

Valence School, Westerham, Kent, TN16 1QN

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  27 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  7 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,000.00 Annually (Actual)

Community Charity Shop Manager job summary

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and driven Community Shop Manager to join the team at Valence School.

Working hours are 37.5 per week, including weekends, worked on a rota basis across the shop opening hours (Monday to Saturday 9.00am to 4.30pm; Sunday 10.00am to 4.00pm). This includes 8 weeks holiday leave (including bank holiday entitlement).

Together with the “Friends of Valence,” we launched the shop two years ago with the aim of not just raising vital funds for our school but also give our students meaningful work experience in the heart of the local community. This is a fantastic opportunity to build on its success and make a lasting impact.

As Shop Manager, you’ll be the driving force behind the shop’s success by overseeing day-to-day operations, inspiring your team of staff and volunteers to create a welcoming, safe and dynamic retail environment.

You will have retail experience and be commercially minded, creative and brimming with ideas to attract customers, source stock and keep the shop buzzing with activity.

This role is varied, unique and highly rewarding. You will motivate and guide a team of dedicated volunteers, delegate with confidence and bring fresh energy to this community hub.

Although based in our Westerham High Street shop, overlooking the picturesque Westerham Green, you’ll be employed by Valence School and closely connected to our wider team.

‘Valence on the Green’ is more than just a shop, we:

• Offer work experience, learning and social opportunities for our students
• Sell quality new and nearly-new donated items
• Showcase products made by students as part of their curriculum
• Provide rental space for local artists and crafters
• Host community workshops and events
• Serve tea, coffee and refreshments, making it a welcoming space for all.

The "Friends of Valence School" is the school's own charity to raise funds to enhance our students' opportunities and educational lives.

Benefits include a generous local government pension scheme and life cover, retail discounts, wellbeing sessions, training opportunities....

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. We value diversity and promote 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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