Lunchtime Support Assistant

Valence School, Westerham, Kent, TN16 1QN

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  29 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  14 June 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: £8,584.00 Annually (Actual) 15 hours per week

Lunchtime Support Assistant job summary

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

We are seeking a Lunchtime Support Assistant to join our dedicated team. In this role, you will support students with physical disabilities and complex needs during the lunch period—helping with feeding, drinking, and encouraging participation in lunchtime learning activities.

No previous experience is required—full training will be provided. What we’re really looking for is someone with a genuine desire to support and care for our students in a compassionate and respectful way.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assisting students with feeding and drinking

• Supporting and encouraging engagement in lunchtime activities

• Promoting a positive, safe, and inclusive environment

What We Offer:

• Full training and ongoing support

• A welcoming and supportive team

• The chance to make a meaningful impact every day

Join us in creating a caring and enriching environment for our students!

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Valence School

• School type: Special school, ages 4 to 19
• School size: 123 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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