County Lead - Specialist Teaching & Learning Services for Physical Disabilities
Valence School
Westerham, Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale £48,455-£54,065
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 11 March 2018
Job overview
The team of Specialist Teachers for physical disability across Kent is commissioned by Kent County Council to provide services to mainstream school and pre-school settings to enable full inclusion and excellent outcomes for children and young people with physical disabilities.
The role provides a rare and exciting opportunity to lead service development and secure effective outcomes for children and young people who have special educational needs related to physical and medical conditions. You will lead a team of eight highly skilled, dedicated Specialist Teachers who work across Kent.
The team is employed by Valence School but team members are based at various special school across Kent, and cover individual districts, such as Maidstone or Shepway. The County Lead is based at Valence School, but the role often requires travel, mainly within Kent, but also occasionally further afield.
Interviews are expected to take place on Monday 26 March 2018.
Valence School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of every student and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. References will be taken up before interview and the succesful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
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About 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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