Mental Health and Well Being Coach

Job Title: Mental Health and Well Being Coach (Compassionate School Coach)

Contract: Permanent Contract

Salary: FTE Salary: Scale C point 22-28 £21,809.96 - £26,171.9. Actual Salary: £18,838.97 - £22,606.76

Location: Discovery Academy, Nuneaton, Warks

Closing Date: 9am Friday 26th January 2023

Interview Date: TBC

Start Date: ASAP

Hours of Work: Full Time – 38 hours

Come and be part of an exciting and creative academy in Nuneaton for children and young people with autism and/or social, emotional and mental health needs.

The Role

We are currently recruiting for an inspirational and creative Compassionate Schools Coach, this is a really exciting opportunity to be part of something very special.

Reporting to the Assistant Principal, you will identify and introduce strategies for individuals to enable them to self-regulate their emotions enabling them to take part in the learning, care and support offered within the school.

You will help prepare resources that can be used in 1-2-1 and small group sessions by yourself and the class team so that the children and young people have the best access to learning. You will be comfortable working flexibly, adjusting your approach and style in response to individual students’ needs and aspirations. As part of following each individual’s education plan and behaviour support plan, you will also need an awareness and ability to contribute to relevant information on a daily basis as required such as students’ logs. You will be comfortable documenting the progress made by students on your caseload towards desired outcomes by completing session notes and closing reports. All information must be recorded accurately appropriately.

You will also work closely with internal and external stakeholders to successfully contribute to the delivery of the vision, ethos, aims and objectives of the academy; in turn, enabling successful learning and achievement by young people and sustained improvement in their spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical well-being in preparation for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life. All our staff are exceptional classroom practitioners and have demonstrable experience of working with Children and Young People with either social and emotional needs or Autism, associated challenging behaviour or other complex needs, whilst demonstrating proven experience of implementing the national curriculum. They are able to implement strategies for raising achievement across the curriculum and are committed to their further professional development.

As a subject/area leader you will be fully involved in the strategic leadership and daily operation of the school in your discipline. We are an effective team, very committed to our learners, our staff and each other. All staff meet every Monday and Tuesday after school, Teachers (whole school and phase specific) and Middle Leaders rotate on a Wednesday meeting and SLT meet during the day for Finance & Operations (1 hr), Q of E and PD (1hr) and after school Thursday 3.45 – 5.00 for Safeguarding & Children & Young People.

Benefits

In return, we can offer you a competitive salary, plus a MAT Life Day and local government pension scheme. We have an enhanced Sick Pay policy. We have an excellent Employee Assistance Programme to support your health and wellbeing as well as free flu jabs, full induction, training and career opportunities. This is on top of termly You Are Awesome awards, an annual Big Thank you day and whole trust CPD Day. 

MacIntyre Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions will require an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and registration with the DBS Update Service together with all other relevant recruitment checks including obtaining references. This post includes engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide: DBS filtering guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Referees will be asked to assess suitability of candidates to work with vulnerable adults, children or young people and will be verbally verified.  Individual Safeguarding Policies for our Academies can be found on our website under ‘Essential Information’ and candidates will be asked about this as part of the recruitment process.

In line with the update to KSCIE 2022 MacIntyre Academies will carry out an online search of the candidate once the shortlisting process has been completed as part of their due diligence. This may involve a google search of the candidate’s name, looking at the top three search results over the past three years. If any incidents or issues are identified that are publicly available online this will be explored with the candidate at interview stage.

*Salaries are based on Full-Time-Equivalent and are pro-rata for part time roles. Salaries are dependent on experience with option of additional hours through the extended school provision.