57 days remaining to apply

  • Closing date

    31 August 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    4 July 2025

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Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£14.32 Hourly £12,682 actual gross p.a.

Sports Coach job summary

Do you have a passion for sport and want to gain experience in PE and school or disability sport?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity to teach sports at Valence. You will plan and deliver appropriate adapted and modified PE lessons to our disabled students. You must have a genuine passion for sports coaching and PE, and demonstrate a continuing involvement in sport. You will be enthusiastic, have excellent communication skills and be able to inspire disabled young people to be actively interested in sport and swimming.

Valence School is a KCC Foundation Special School with residential facilities 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.

Experience of working with SEND students is desirable, however what is more important is an aspiration to support disabled students to achieve. We offer a collaborative and friendly staff environment where you will have the chance to make a real and positive impact on the lives of Valence students.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone seeking experience related to both PE and Physical Therapy and the school would support further training in these areas.

Application closing date: 31 August 2025

Interview date: w/c 8 July 2025

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).

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
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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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