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Principal - Full-time

Valence School, Westerham

  • Ref:KCC886-7021-177T
  • Posted:10/12/2023
  • Pay:Leadership Group 6: £81,561-£102,376
  • Start Date:September 2024
  • App Close Date:07/01/2024 at 23:45
  • Interviews:w/c 22 January 2024

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PRINCIPAL

Leadership Group 6: £81,561-£102,376 plus non-residential allowance £13,102 gross p.a.

Full Time - Permanent

To start September 2024

• 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.

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.

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.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.

Please download the recruitment brochure and advert for the role of Principal.

For further information please contact the HR team on 01959 567841 or email vacancies@valence.kent.sch.uk 

You can also visit our website www.valenceschool.com > work for us

Application closing date: 7 January 2023

Interview: week commencing 22 January 2023 

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).

Information about the school

Valence School is a KCC Foundation residential and day Special School for children and young people aged 4-19 with physical disabilities, complex medical needs and associated learning and communication difficulties. 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 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.

Valence School is a supportive environment and a rewarding place to work, and whether working directly with our students or in a school support role, every member of staff participates in enabling our students to learn and to aspire to achieve meaningful independence.

We are a Foundation Special School and are part of the Kent SEN Trust (KsENT), a cooperative trust of ten schools working together to improve outcomes for all the children and young people attending the schools.

The School works proactively with parents and external professionals to provide holistic support for every child and young person and 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.

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)

Job Contact Information

Fax: 01959 565046

Documents

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.