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Mental Health & Wellbeing Coordinator

Reference: NOV20202030
Expiry date: 2020-11-30 09:00:00.000
Location: Notitnghamshire
Salary: £22,183 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Healthcare and CPD
Duration:Until 31 August 2021
Attachments: JobPack-MentalHealthandWellbeingCoordinator.pdf
AdvertText2020-MentalHealthandWellbeingCoordinator.pdf

Job Description – Mental Health and Wellbeing CoordinatorReports to:  School Leader

Role Details

 The Pastoral Team at Toot Hill prides itself on building excellent working relationships with students, teams of staff and parents to ensure every student has the support and guidance to keep them safe and achieve their best within our Work Hard Be Kind ethos. The Pastoral Team currently provides a pivotal range of support between our high expectations of personal development, behaviour, safeguarding, mental health support and positive engagement in school. This post will offer non-teaching mental health capacity to the wider Pastoral team, including the Heads of Year and Sendco.

Role Purpose

  • To strategically co-ordinate the provision for students’ mental health and wellbeing needs and the School’s approach to the promotion of positive metal health; working closely with the well-established Pastoral Team to ensure that students with mental health needs are identified and that timely interventions implemented, monitored and reviewed.
  •  To liaise directly with students, parents and external agencies to ensure the most appropriate mental health support is in place, is a critical part of this role.

The responsibilities of the role include

Supporting Students

 

  • To coordinate the School’s provision for students’ mental health needs, including addressing immediate needs and identifying where students require additional support.
  • To work closely with the Year 7-13 Heads of Year to identify strategies to support the metal health needs of students.
  • To provide appropriate interventions/ mentoring that enable pupils with identified mental health problems to achieve personal goals.
  • To build strong relationships and communications systems with internal school support systems relating to mental health (School Nurse, Designated Safeguarding Lead, SENCO, Student Advisors, Student services, Sixth Form Pastoral lead) to ensure timely intervention and communications to support student emotional wellbeing.
  • To build working links with a wide range of children and young people’s mental health services so that the School can access the most appropriate support for individuals in a timely manner.
  • To be the nominated Anxiety Related Non Attendance (ARNA) Lead and work collaboratively with Student services and Sendco to provide support for in improve ARNA attendance.

 

  • To support the Designated Safeguarding Leads in responding to mental health-related safeguarding concerns.
  • To co-ordinate referrals to external agencies for students requiring additional support relating to mental health.
  • To oversee the mental health interventions from external services that take place in school.
  • To complete all relevant administration and record keeping relating to mental health needs that are associated with the triage/’Team Around the Child’ process used by the Wellbeing Team in regular student in need meetings.
  • To manage the health care plans, safety plans and risk assessments for identified students with ongoing mental health conditions.
  • To assess the outcome of interventions on students’ mental health and emotional wellbeing.
  • To evaluate the School’s mental health provision and present outcomes to Strategy Group and suggestions for future development.

 

Supporting staff

  • To lead on the school securing the Nationally recognised ‘Wellbeing Award’ including contributing to the development and quality assurance of resources for the Personal Development Curriculum
  • To give members of staff the knowledge and skills they need to support students with emerging mental health issues in support of the School’s preventative approach to mental health provision. Enabling all staff to:
  • Recognise signs and symptoms of mental health needs in students, and
  • Know what to do should they have a concern.
  • To support staff in contact with students with mental health needs to:
  • Help raise awareness of related issues, and
  • Give all staff the confidence to work with these students.
  • To share information about students with mental health needs with other members of staff where appropriate, so that there can be support throughout the school Wellbeing Team e.g Heads of Year, Student Services, School mentor, School Nurse, SENDCo, Designated Safeguarding Leads.
  • Contribute at a leadership level to strategic planning around improving awareness and our provision for pupils with identified mental health problems. Provide appropriate information and support to the Head teacher, senior leadership team and trustees.
  • Promote a positive working ethos by developing support staff in their role and applying staffing policies and procedures equitably.
  • Developing mutually beneficial links between the school and the wider community which support pupils to access the wider world.

Full Job Description is included in the attached Job Pack