SEMH Practitioner
Stoke Damerel Community College, Plymouth, Devon, PL3 4BD22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
12 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week x 39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC Grade C pay scale scp 5 - 7 £24,790 - £25,584 FTE per annum. Actual salary £21,378 - £22,063
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are now recruiting for an SEMH Practitioner to support students across campus with their social, emotional and mental health, including students with recognised needs as well as those with emerging needs. The successful candidate will build strong positive relationships with students enabling them to unpick their barriers to learning and coordinate a response through the graduated approach to facilitate learning and overall positive engagement with school.
If you have a positive and proactive attitude with exceptional communication skills to build and maintain good rapport with students we would welcome your application.
Main duties and responsibilities
- To use specialist skills, training and experience to support students with SEMH needs
- Lead activities with individuals or small groups of students to support their social, emotional and mental health within a safe and nurturing environment
- Ensure a stimulating and well-structured learning environment suitable for pupils with SEMH difficulties
- Promote and reinforce self-esteem and encourage achievement
- Encourage students to be ‘responsible, resilient and respectful’ whilst recognising their individual SEMH needs
- Plan and deliver targeted interventions for students needing to access additional SEMH support, maintaining adequate records and reviewing impact
- Identify targets for students that have an identified SEMH need and facilitate external agency support, e/g Early Help, CAMHS
- Use an appropriate range of observation, assessment and monitoring to identify strategies to support the SEMH students, feeding back to the leaders within the inclusion team
- To support students for assessment purposes when appropriate
- Where appropriate, to work with students in the classroom or in a withdrawal situation. ● Establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
- Support students consistently while recognising and responding to their individual SEMH needs within the school grounds and in a variety of other settings as required for example alternative provisions, work experience, community & enrichment activities
- Use a trauma informed or PACE approach to de-escalate student behaviour and support engagement with learning
- Identify patterns of behaviour and contribute to feedback to staff on successful strategies through consultation with student and staff
- Day to day administration tasks include registering students, updating the tracker and maintaining accurate records
- Communicating with parents to support positive engagement
These responsibilities may be varied from time to time to meet the changing needs of the college.
What the school offers its staff
The GLT recognises that our employees are our most important asset, and we are aware that the quality and commitment of our employees is critical to our success. We offer all our employees the following staff benefits:
- A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues
- Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression
- Employer contributions to Local Government (LGPS) or Teachers Pension Scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Gym membership scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free eye test
- Car benefit scheme
- My Health discounts
Commitment to safeguarding
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Stoke Damerel Community College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1301 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- HR@sdcc-smhc.net
- Phone number
- 01752 556065
Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical and Healthcare College are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character.
Our campus is based in the heart of the city of Plymouth with stunning view of the Plymouth Sound and easy walking distance of the most accessible city waterfront. We encourage all young people to work hard and make the most of the opportunities they are given. Our amazing team of teachers and support staff themselves demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, both within and beyond our curriculum.
Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical & Healthcare College are next door to each other. No additional travel is required.
We are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character. The Trust is a vibrant and forward-thinking community of teachers, support staff and learners committed to educating the ‘whole child’ to improve life chances, whilst securing the best possible outcomes for students.
As one of the highest performing multi-academy trusts in the country, we currently comprise of thirty schools: seven in South London, five in Berkshire, one in Surrey, fourteen in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, and three in Plymouth. We are continuing to grow and have further schools joining us on a regular basis.
We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion and very much look forward to receiving applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, religion, belief, or race.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people therefore this appointment will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Arranging a visit to Stoke Damerel Community College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@sdcc-smhc.net.
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