Healthcare Assistant (One-to-One)

Valence School, Westerham, Kent, TN16 1QN

41 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  31 August 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  21 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £14.54 Hourly 24 hours Term Time Only : £15,850 actual gross p.a.

Healthcare Assistant (One-to-One) job summary

We are seeking a compassionate, dedicated, and proactive Healthcare Assistant to join our Residential Team, supporting students with a range of health, personal care, and wellbeing needs. Working alongside residential staff and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will play a vital role in ensuring students receive the care and support they need to thrive within a safe, nurturing, and person-centred environment.

The successful candidate will support students with their daily healthcare requirements, promote independence, and respond to individual health and care needs while maintaining the highest standards of care and safeguarding. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about making a positive difference to the lives of young people in a residential setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and monitor student medication in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Maintain accurate medication records and ensure medication stocks are kept up to date.
• Support students with additional health needs within the residential setting.
• Provide personal care and support with daily living activities as required.
• Monitor and report on students' health and wellbeing.
• Work collaboratively with the residential team and other professionals to deliver high-quality care.
• Promote students' independence, dignity, and wellbeing.
• Ensure all care documentation is completed accurately and in a timely manner.

In this role you will:

• Be caring, patient, and committed to supporting young people
• Have experience in a healthcare, care, or residential setting (desirable)
• Have knowledge of medication administration or be willing to undertake training
• Possess excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Be able to work flexibly across early and late shifts

The role will include a substantial amount of moving and handling and personal care.

What we offer:

• Term time working - 39 working weeks plus 6.4 weeks paid holiday
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Opportunities for career progression
• Generous pension scheme with life cover
• Access to retail discounts, health and wellbeing support including staff well-being sessions and events
• Free on-site parking and refreshments

If you are passionate about providing outstanding care and support and would like to join a dedicated residential team, we would love to hear from you.

We are recruiting for this post on a rolling basis therefore you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. We reserve the right to close this vacancy, interview and appoint earlier if we receive sufficient applications for this role.

Please note Valence School will be closed for the summer break and all applicants will be contacted upon our return in September.

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. For shortlisted candidates references will be taken up before interview and online checks undertaken. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check (this post is exempt from 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

• Organisation type: Special school, ages 4 to 19
• Size: 129 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• 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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