Advisory Teacher

West Sussex County Council; Horsham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Horsham seeks an Advisory Teacher for mental health support in schools. The successful candidate will advise on strategies for children's wellbeing and manage area-based teams. Required qualifications include degree-level education with QTS and experience in a leadership role. This position offers a unique opportunity to enhance inclusive teaching practices and improve services within the community.

Responsibilities

• Advise schools on mental health and emotional wellbeing strategies.
• Provide day-to-day management of area-based teams.
• Lead and develop practices to enhance teaching and learning.

Skills

Knowledge of supporting pupils with emotional wellbeing challenges

Problem-solving decision-making

Collaboration and partnership skills

Challenging existing practices

Inclusive practice and teaching skills

Effective evaluation and analytical skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Strong IT skills

Ability to travel countywide

Education

Educated to degree level with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Job description

Overview

As an Advisory Teacher in Thought-Full, the Mental Health Support Teams in schools, you will be responsible for providing advice to schools and settings relating to children's and young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing. You will work with schools to strategically develop their whole school approach to mental health and emotional wellbeing, working with children, young people, and families in addition to working with school staff and colleagues in WSCC and SPFT. You will provide day to day management of assigned area-based teams, leading and managing areas of practice and policy, continual professional development, tracking impact and progress of whole school approach data and promoting equal opportunities. We are looking for an Advisory Teacher with senior leader school based experience to enhance the quality of inclusive teaching and learning, who will influence activities, improve services, and ensure Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing is promoted. You will need a qualified teacher status, strong personal values, and emotional resilience for this role with knowledge and understanding of current mental health and wellbeing guidance, issues and needs for all school settings. If this sounds like the role for you, apply below!

Experience and Skills

• Knowledge and experience of supporting pupils who present with emotional wellbeing challenges; for example, those relating to anxiety.
• Ability to make sound pragmatic problem-solving decisions which will have a wider service impact. The ability to confidently provide comprehensive professional advice to mixed audiences, analyse data and make judgements to resolve difficult problems of a technical, professional or people related nature.
• Ability to develop, maintain and embed collaborative working relationships and excellent partnership working skills with senior leaders, managers, practitioners, and other agencies to deliver and measure agreed objectives.
• Ability to challenge existing practices within school setting and identify innovative solutions to improve and enhance learning outcomes for children and young people.
• Excellent inclusive practice and teaching skills across a range of settings.
• Ability to forward plan, set timescales and meet challenging deadlines, targets and objectives, taking appropriate action where these are not being met.
• Effective evaluation and analytical skills to monitor and review effectiveness of provision, teaching and learning.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (oral and written) with the ability to successfully influence and negotiate effective outcomes with a range of audiences. This being demonstrated through the development and delivery of a range of strategies for practitioners to adopt to improve outcomes.
• Excellent, up to date and accurate IT skills to support the role and enhance teaching and learning and effectively monitor service delivery.
• Ability to travel countywide
• Educated to degree level with QTS
• Experience of an Advisory Teacher role in providing consultation, support and challenge to, senior colleagues and peers within schools and educational settings
• Experience in working collaboratively and successfully with colleagues across different service areas