Principal
Valence School, Westerham, Kent, TN16 1QNThis job expired on 7 January 2024
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
7 January 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
29 November 2023
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: FULL TIME
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Group 6: £81,561-£102,376 gross p.a.
Additional allowances
plus non-residential allowance £13,102 gross p.a.
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Are you committed to the highest achievement for all and champion inclusion and diversity?
- Are you a strong strategic leader with great empathy and moral direction, leading by example?
- Do you have an open-minded, creative and solution-focused attitude? If so, we have a unique key influential post that will provide you with a fantastic opportunity to develop our school and achieve our vision.
We are looking for an inspirational and ambitious leader who has the vision, drive, resilience, experience and personality to oversee the continuing development of the school and build on the strong foundations, laid by our existing Principal who is retiring, to take our school to the next phase.
The successful candidate will join and lead an experienced group of senior leaders and applications are welcome from colleagues with experience of a specialist or mainstream provision ready to take on a new challenge.
If you can bring the best of your leadership and experience to drive consistent excellent education, wellbeing and safeguarding of students with physical disabilities and complex medical needs you may well be the future Principal we are looking for.
What the school offers its staff
Valence School is a KCC Foundation residential and day Special School for children and young people with physical disabilities, complex medical needs and associated learning and communication difficulties. We are part of the Kent Special Educational Needs Trust (KsENT) and have over 200 staff providing specialist teaching, social care, therapies and nursing care to an exceptionally high standard.
Further details about the role
For more information on the role of Principal, please download the recruitment brochure. The application form must be completed via our website, please follow the link.
Alternatively, for details please visit www.valenceschool.com > work for us.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
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
- Email address
- vacancies@valence.kent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01959562156
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.
Arranging a visit to Valence School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancies@valence.kent.sch.uk.
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