Mental Health Support Worker (12 Month FTC)

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Mental Health Support Worker (12 Month FTC)

Location:Based in Telford, Shropshire (but with travel to other boroughs for pick-ups, you may also be required to visit our sites in South Yorkshire for training and development as needed)

Hours:Full-Time (9am-5pm, Monday-Friday)

Salary:£22,000 per annum

Contract Term:Fixed Term Contract

Start Date:ASAP

Are you currently working in education and looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people? Are you missing the chance to work with smaller group sizes so that your work can have a greater impact? Would you like to take part in off-site enrichment activities? Do you want a rewarding career with opportunities for progression where you will experience genuine job satisfaction?

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and nurturing Mental Health Support Worker to work in our Telford project to support young people to thrive both inside and outside of the classroom.

You will be based at our brand new centre in Telford, offering support to our learners who may be experiencing difficulties with their mental health. You will be required to deliver group and one-to-one sessions where appropriate on various issues surrounding mental health, the rest of your time will be spent assisting in other subject lessons, supporting our learners on enrichment activities, contributing to SEN/D paperwork or barrier busting. You will be mostly delivering to individual learners, sometimes this may be in the learners home or another setting outside of the classroom. Like all staff at Really NEET, you will be responsible for transporting learners from home to their place of study and back home again, so it is essential that you have your own car that is in sound working order and be willing to add the necessary business insurance.

Essential

- Must own your own car, have business insurance in place and ensure that tax and MOT are maintained. You must be willing to carry out student pick-ups and drop-offs (mileage paid at 45p per mile)

- Must have great youth work skills and have a real ability to engage disengaged learners

Rewards

- 9 weeks’ holiday per academic year to be taken during school holidays

- 45p mileage allowance per mile for work related journeys

- Outstanding CPD opportunities with first class training provided

Main Responsibilities

- Support our learners presenting with low-level mental health issues to address multiple needs which are impacting their lives

- To deliver one-to-one and group sessions with individual learners as and when it is required

- To offer support to all our young people, including those with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities)

- Work closely with mental health provision in Telford in order to link individuals with more complex mental health issues to specialist services

- To support with planning and participating in Really NEET engagement activities

- To pick-up/drop-off students using your own car

- Ensure that any intervention is meaningful, respectful and promotes self-determination

- To assist in the delivery of quality on-site youth work to help all our young people to overcome multiple complex barriers to education

- To help create and maintain a safe environment for our young people where they feel confident to approach any member of staff if they have a worry or problem

- Signpost learners to appropriate specialist intervention/support provision

- To familiarise yourself with the company’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy

- To provide input for educational reports and SEN paperwork when requested by SENCO

What it’s like to work for us

The Really NEET Project is a Post 16 SEN/D provision that works with 16-24 year old’s who have struggled to cope in mainstream education. Our approach is very much person-centred and based around meeting the needs of the learners. Students are taught either one-to-one or in small groups (never more than 10 students, though typically around 5), so being able to build great relationships is at the heart of what we do.

We have been operating for over 10 years and are nationally renowned for the work that we do in not only re-engaging young people back into education but for the holistic support that we offer to help our learners to remove barriers to learning, life and work.

We currently have projects in Rotherham, Barnsley, London and The Midlands.

If you want to work somewhere that values both its staff and its students, then Really NEET would welcome your application.

For more information on our organisation, please visit our website.

Please note, we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and expect all those who work with us to share this commitment. Successful applicants will need to undertake a DBS Enhanced Clearance check (Disclosure and Barring Service).

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