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Residential Manager Careworkers - Term Time - Special Needs Position

Valence School, Westerham

  • Ref:KCC886-7021-104S
  • Posted:27/04/2017
  • Pay:Kent Scheme 8
  • Start Date:Immediate
  • App Close Date:14/05/2017 at 23:45
  • Interviews:w/c 5 June 2017

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Full Time – Compressed hours worked within School Term Time – Permanent

Kent Scheme Range 8: £24,231 to £27,769 p.a. (£12.56 to £14.39 per hour) plus local government pension

As the Children's Residential Care Manager you will lead and manage your designated Home Living Areas in in accordance with the ethos of Valence School, to ensure the highest standards of young person centred support is delivered and maintained.

Valence School is a Kent County Council Foundation residential and day Special School for children and young people from age 4 to 19 with physical disabilities, complex medical needs and associated learning and communication difficulties.

The role of Children’s Residential Care Manager will involve:

  • Managing and monitoring operational resources with both staffing, including supervising, and physical resources, including budgeting.
  • Supporting young people in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure a consistent, holistic and effective working approach is maintained.
  • Planning and organising residential time to ensure social, personal and eating needs are met, completing risk assessments and monitoring all aspects of Health and Safety.
  • Ensuring excellent communication with students, staff and parents/carers.

Successful candidates will be qualified to at least a Level 5 Diploma in Management and Leadership and have relevant experience in a residential educational or care setting with children and young people.

Experience working with young people who have complex physical and medical needs is desirable. An aspiration to enable students to learn and achieve meaningful independence is essential.

We offer a supportive, friendly working environment in a country school setting and the chance to make a real and positive impact on the lives of Valence students.

Valence School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of every student. The successful applicants will require an enhanced DBS check and references will be taken up before interview.

Information about the 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 250 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. 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.

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

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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.