SEMH Practitioner

Willow Tree Academy, Rotherham, S65 2JW

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  29.9.2025 - as soon as possible

• Closing date

  25 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,608.00 Annually (Actual) E7

SEMH Practitioner job summary

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the development of our award-winning SEMH provision across Willow Tree Academy. Based at the LEAF Centre, you will work as part of a dedicated team committed to ensuring that the most vulnerable children in our care receive the targeted, therapeutic support they need to thrive emotionally and academically.

Working closely with the LEAF teacher and SEMH team, you will contribute to the planning and delivery of highly personalised intervention programmes – most notably our 12-week school readiness and reintegration offer. These programmes are designed to transform outcomes for pupils who are at risk of exclusion or who struggle to access mainstream education. You’ll work with pupils on a 1:1 basis and in small groups, using a range of assessment tools and therapeutic strategies, including Restorative Practice and emotional coaching, to support their individual needs.

You will help implement and monitor interventions, support the development of behaviour and support plans, and provide practical, emotional, and social support to help pupils develop confidence, resilience, and independence. Your role will also include assisting with off-site activities and working with the team to provide a nurturing, consistent environment that helps children succeed.

As part of the SEMH team, you will collaborate with class teachers, SENDCos, and other staff to ensure that provision is coordinated and meets the needs of each pupil. You’ll be involved in liaising with parents/carers and outside agencies, contributing to a joined-up, “team around the child” approach to SEMH support.

It is a highly valued and impactful role working across the Trust, ideal for someone with a strong understanding of SEMH, a passion for inclusion, and a desire to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children.

In return, you will be part of a values-driven, supportive team dedicated to making long-term positive change for children with social, emotional, and mental health needs.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Willow Tree Academy

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Willow Tree Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/willow-tree-academy

Our school mission statement states our commitment to ‘engaging hearts and minds in
the joy of learning’ and I am fortunate to have such a talented team who go ‘the extra mile’.
My staff all offer great commitment to your children and to the community of Herringthorpe
too. Teamwork, creativity, taking responsibility, empathy and a high sense of personal selfesteem
are just some of the qualities that we aim to develop in your children. To be able to
do this we need to work in partnership with you.
We too are proud of our outstanding provision and because of this we support other schools in
challenging circumstances. Our collaboration with Greasbrough Primary School has been an amazing
success, with the school emerging rapidly from Special Measures in less than eighteen months.
Strengthening our partnership was the next step and we have now formed Willow Tree Academy which
also no includes Rockingham Junior and Infant School and Roughwood Primary School.
Each year the school goes from strength to strength – we believe every day is special and no time can be
wasted in the pursuit of excellence. However, you are the first and foremost educators of your children
and we value your support and time with Home Learning and most important, reading at home. We look
forward to working together in partnership to help your child be the best that they can be!

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