Specialist Teacher for Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)
Valence School, Westerham, Kent, TN16 1QN72 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
6 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Part time: 0.8 FTE
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR Fringe (depending on experience)
Additional allowances
SEN allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
SPECIALIST TEACHER FOR SEMH (& C&I)
Sevenoaks Specialist Teaching and Learning Service
0.8 FTE : MPR/UPR Fringe (depending on experience) + SEN Allowance
Possible secondment opportunity for STLS Staff until the end of Term 6, July 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated team of peripatetic Specialist Teachers, based at Valence School in Sevenoaks. Our specialist teachers work with mainstream schools and settings, across the district, to support and enhance the teaching, learning and provision for children and young people with SEND. We are seeking a highly motivated specialist teacher, with the passion to provide high quality advice, support and training to staff, parents, carers, children and young people as part of this team.
This post has a specific focus on Social, Emotional and Mental Health (alongside associated Communication and Interaction differences) within the Primary and Secondary age phrases.
We are looking for a team member who:
- Demonstrates a commitment to SEND and inclusion, and has the vision and determination to make a difference
- Demonstrates outstanding primary and secondary SEN provision, implementation of high-quality interventions and effective inclusive practices, specifically with regards to SEMH (/C&I)
- Can provide support and challenge to schools and staff teams, establishing clear actions and evaluating progress towards these
- Can work independently and collaboratively to meet the varying needs of children and young people
- Places high value on ethical behaviour and professional conduct
We can offer:
- A diverse role, with every day being different, providing challenge and growth
- An opportunity to join a caring, professional and talented team, committed to developing and promoting inclusion and inclusive practice
- Contribution to meaningful work that makes a difference to children and young people’s well-being, education and futures
- Opportunities to take on new challenges and to collaborate on innovative projects
- Continuous professional development and training (in line with service development needs)
If you are ready to embrace an evolving and dynamic service whilst helping to shape the direction of this role we would love to hear from you.
Sevenoaks Specialist Teaching and Learning Service is managed by Valence School on behalf of Kent County Council. The ability to travel to meet the requirements of the role is essential.
For further information, please contact Susie Cassie, Sevenoaks STLS Lead: 07740 183988 or scassie@valence.kent.sch.uk
If you have any questions please contact the HR team :vacancies@valence.kent.sch.uk
Closing date: 6 October 2024
Interview date: 18 October 2024
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. 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).
What the school offers its staff
The Specialist Teaching and Learning Service, commissioned by KCC and managed by Valence School, provides a service for children and young people (0-19yrs) with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), offering support, advice and training to EY settings, primary and secondary mainstream schools and parents.
Our specialist teachers are experienced teachers with qualifications in one or more areas of SEND. They work alongside other professionals in providing effective and co-ordinated support, with the aim as a team, to develop and extend inclusive practices so that children and young people’s needs are met within their setting and good educational progress is strived for.
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).
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.
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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 (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Valence School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- vacancies@valence.kent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01959 567841
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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