Mental Health & Wellbeing Lead

We are looking to appoint an exceptionally supportive and caring Emotional Health & Mental Wellbeing Lead to join our committed team at Royton and Crompton E-ACT Academy. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within our Academy to promote Positive Mental Health, working with parents and students, placing interventions, making crucial referrals whilst supporting staff and students.

The purpose of this role is to promote positive mental, social, emotional and physical health in staff and students. This will be through training, overseeing PDWB trackers and CPD for staff and children. You will Identify students and staff who may need particular support, guidance, information, teaching and escalation. By delivering interventions to support students and staff including through staff training such as accredited mental health training. Those students identified by the head of additional needs, the purpose is to teach bespoke programmes and measure their impact. You will also refer and commission internal and external support and diagnose need in staff and students. Working across the Academy you will also be responsible for coordinating and collaborating with colleagues; organising meetings and CPD; leading on MSEH. 

Key Responsibilities:

• To work with the headteacher, senior leaders and staff in the Academy in setting a culture that values all students, allows them to feel a sense of belonging, and makes it possible to talk about problems in a non-stigmatising way.
• To work with leaders in setting high expectations for all students with consistently applied support.
• To work with the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCO) and head of additional needs, to ensure that all adults working in the school understand their responsibilities to children whose persistent mental health difficulties mean they need special education provision.
• To use academy systems to prioritise students whose patterns of attainment, attendance or behaviour might indicate a cause for concern.
• To communicate effectively with parents, mentors, team leaders, student managers, SENCO and SLT to spot where bad or unusual behaviour may have a root cause that needs addressing.
• To monitor closely groups of students more vulnerable to mental health difficulties, for example looked after children, children with SEN, children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• To work with groups of students to ensure that ESMH issues do not occur such as equality and diversity groups.
•  Collate and gather student voice and feed this back into the academy and director of additional needs to improve provision.
•  To provide mentoring to students with mental health problems.
•  To work closely with SENCOs in order to liaise with Educational Psychologists and CAMHS

For a full description of the role, see the job description and job specification.

• ​​​​​​​Salary: SCP 15-23  £20,924.36 to £24,657.07 FTE £23,953.00 to 28,226.00
• Term Time only plus 1 week - 37 hours a week

Please read the supporting documentation carefully before completing our application and equal opportunities form.

Our academy:

In September 2019, E-Act Royton and Crompton Academy moved into a brand new, state of the art, learning complex to ensure we provide the very best outcomes for all our children. Our biggest priority is to ensure that through the best quality of education, outstanding teaching we provide the very best educational experiences and outcomes for all our students allowing everyone access to the curriculum and entitlements that they require in order to succeed in their chosen career pathways.

Please read the supporting documentation carefully before completing our application and equal opportunities form.

What the trust offers in return:

• Competitive local Government Pension Scheme
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Market leading Personal Development and Training plans to further your career
• Access to Mental Health First Aid Programme
• 24 hours access to Employee Assistance Programme

We are an E-ACT academy and proud to be part of a community that includes over 18,000 pupils and over 2,500 teaching and non-teaching professionals across the country.

E-ACT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.

E-ACT is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community