Senior SEMH Practitioner
Willow Tree Academy, Rotherham, S65 2JWDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
3 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
21 May 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
- £24,076.87 - £25,986.10 Annually (Actual) dependent on experience
Senior SEMH Practitioner job summary
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to take on a key leadership role in shaping the future of our award-winning SEMH provision across Willow Tree Academy. Based at the LEAF Centre, you will play a central role in driving forward our SEND and SEMH strategy, ensuring that the most vulnerable children in our care receive the targeted, therapeutic support they need to thrive both emotionally and academically.
You will work closely with the LEAF teacher and wider SEMH team to lead, plan, and deliver highly personalised intervention programmes - most notably our 12-week school readiness and reintegration offer. These programmes aim to transform outcomes for children who are at risk of exclusion or who struggle to access mainstream education. You'll support pupils both on a 1:1 basis and in small groups, using a range of assessment tools and therapeutic approaches, including Restorative Practice and emotional coaching, to meet their individual needs.
A crucial aspect of the role is strategic. You will be expected to hold a broad overview of our provision across all Willow Tree schools, evaluate impact using key indicators such as attendance and progress, and help to shape a consistently high-quality, responsive SEMH offer across the Trust. You will also support schools in understanding their own SEMH cohorts and identifying opportunities for further development and early intervention.
Your leadership will extend to the line management of the SEMH team, ensuring a cohesive and collaborative “team around the child” approach. You’ll be responsible for coordinating multi-agency involvement, liaising with parents and carers, and ensuring that support plans are both holistic and robust. From designing learning opportunities based on assessments, to implementing behaviour support plans, to arranging off-site therapeutic and educational visits - you’ll be at the heart of a provision that truly makes a difference.
Additionally, you will be a key figure in promoting the LEAF Centre’s reach beyond Willow Tree Academy, helping to build relationships with other local schools and authorities where appropriate, and positioning our offer as a valuable resource within the wider educational landscape.
This is a varied and rewarding role requiring passion, resilience, creativity, and strategic insight. In return, you’ll be joining a values-driven, ambitious team committed to making lasting change in the lives of children who need it most.
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 are not accepted.
About Willow Tree Academy
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- Willow Tree Academy website
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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