SEND Mental Health Officer

Weston College; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Weston College is seeking a motivated SEND Mental Health Officer to work with learners with SEND and mental health needs, helping them develop independence and achieve sustainable outcomes. The role requires delivering targeted interventions, planning individual support, and liaising with departments to ensure timely identification of learners requiring mental health support.

The position is full-time (37 hours per week) and may allow 38 weeks per year term-time work.

Qualifications

• Professional degree level qualification in SEND or mental health.
• Experience supporting learners with SEND and associated mental health difficulties.
• Knowledge of how SEND and mental health can present barriers to learning and affect learning.
• Knowledge of inclusive practice and reasonable adjustments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality interventions to support learners with SEND and mental health needs.
• Plan and review individual support programmes per learner's Initial Needs Assessment or Education Health Care Plan.
• Assess progress and monitor outcomes for learners.
• Collaborate with Heads of Department and ALS teams to identify learners needing mental health support.

Skills

SEND knowledge

Mental health awareness

Caseload management

Interventions planning

Stakeholder liaison

Education

Degree in SEND or mental health

Job description

The college is seeking to appoint a motivated and innovative SEND Mental Health Officer to work with learners with a range of learning barriers/SEND and associated mental health needs; to support them to develop their independence and achieve sustainable outcomes. The role will be crucial to enable the sharing of best practice and to encourage inclusive practice approaches and curriculum adaptions, including modifications to delivery and imaginative ways of teaching.

This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week.

Whilst this is an all-year round position, we are open to applications from people who wish to work term-time only, on a 38 weeks per year basis.

Interviews for this role will take place on-site, at one of our college campuses in Weston-super-Mare.

As a SEND Mental Health Officer, you may be based at any of our Weston-super-Mare campuses.

Day to day duties of the role

• Delivering appropriate high-quality interventions to support a caseload of learners with SEND who have associated mental health needs.
  
• Planning and reviewing individual programmes of support, ensuring all aspects of provision and support specified within a learner's Initial Needs Assessment and/or Education Health Care Plan are delivered.
  
• Assessing the progress of learners and ensuring this is effectively tracked and monitored.
  
• Closely liaising with Heads of Department and the ALS teams to implement a seamless process of Initial Needs Assessment that quickly identifies learners who may require specific mental health support.

Required skills and qualifications

• A professional degree level qualification in an area of SEND or mental health.
  
• Relevant successful experience of supporting learners with SEND and associated mental health difficulties.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of how SEND and mental health needs may present barriers to learning and how these may affect the way learners learn.
  
• Knowledge of current learning strategies, reasonable adjustments and principles of inclusive practice.

Weston College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We value equality, diversity and inclusion, and welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants who require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact or 01934 411441.

Please note: this vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received, so we encourage early applications.