Teaching Assistant Special Needs - Education/Residential Student Support
Valence School, Westerham, Kent, TN16 1QN38 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
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, part time: Full Time, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, worked on set shifts between 7am and 10pm Part Time, 24.5 hours, 3 days (2 lates, 1 early)
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £11.79 (Full time 40 hours, £21,415 actual gross p.a.) (Part time 24.5 hours, £13,116 actual gross p.a.)
What skills and experience we're looking for
STUDENT SUPPORT ASSISTANT (EDUCATION/RESIDENTIAL)
Part Time and Full Time opportunities - School Term Time only - Permanent
£11.79 per hour for 39 working weeks and 6.4 weeks paid holiday
FULL TIME - 40 hours per week - £21,415 actual p.a - Monday to Friday - Hours worked on set shifts between 7am and 10pm
Pattern 1: Monday (12.30-10pm), Tuesday (12.30-10pm), Wednesday (7am-2.30pm), Thursday (7am-2.30pm), Friday (7am-3.30pm/1pm-9.30pm)
Pattern 2: Monday (8am-3.30pm/7am-2.30pm), Tuesday (7am-2.30pm), Wednesday (12.30-10pm), Thursday (12.30-10pm), Friday (7am-3.30pm)
PART TIME:
3 days - 24.5 hours - £13,116 actual p.a (2 late, 1 early)
Monday (12.30-10pm), Wednesday 12.30-10pm) and Friday (8.30am-3.30pm)
or
Monday (8.30am-15.30pm), Tuesday (12.30-10pm) and Wednesday (12.30-10pm)
Please advise preferred shift pattern on the application form.
Benefits include a generous pension scheme & life cover, retail discounts, well-being sessions, subsidised meals, free on site parking, staff accommodation available for those working a 10pm late shift followed by a 7am early shift
You can make a difference! You will be responsible for enabling our students to learn, promote their independence and help them to achieve.
Valence School is a KCC Foundation day and residential Special School for children and young people aged from 4 to 19, with physical disabilities, complex medical needs and associated learning difficulties. We are part of the Kent Special Educational Needs Trust (KsENT).
As a Student Support Assistant you will:
Support students within the learning and residential environments in order to promote their intellectual, physical, social and emotional development;
Promote a caring environment and provide a high standard of care including washing, toileting, bathing and mealtime assistance;
Ensure that communication with students, staff and other departments is effective and contributes to our high standards of care and personal development for students;
Maintain excellent standards of safety and good practice in relation to safeguarding, health and safety issues, implementing students’ care plans and appropriately using the recording and reporting processes
The role will include a substantial amount of moving and handling and personal care. Although experience of complex physical and medical needs is not essential, as we provide comprehensive training, an aspiration to enable students to learn and achieve meaningful independence is. The successful candidate will be supported to complete the Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare, if not already achieved. We also offer a friendly, supportive working environment in a country school setting on the outskirts of Westerham.
C.V.'s alone will not be accepted. Applications must be made on the school's application form.
For details please visit www.valenceschool.com > work for us to complete an application form (we are unable to accept CV's) or contact the HR team on 01959 567841.
It is important for the online application form to be completed in full, including complete employment history from leaving full-time education (age 16 or 18) and any gaps must be accounted for. If this is not fully completed your application will not be progressed.
Please also submit a suitable statement describing how you meet the criteria of the person specification and outline your reasons for application.
Please note, we can only consider applicants who have the right to work in the U.K. We are not able to offer visa sponsorship, and we are not a sponsorship organisation. For details, please read information for applicants.
You are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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
- 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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