Senior SEMH Practitioner
Willow Tree Academy, Rotherham, S65 2JW22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
13 June 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
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- to be discussed
Senior SEMH Practitioner job summary
We are looking for a key person to further develop our SEND/SEMH Strategy across Willow Tree Academy. Our LEAF@ programme is developing well in line with our vision and ethos for all children. This programme now needs a coordinated approach to further drive our offer to the most vulnerable children in our care.
If you have a passion for SEND/SEMH and the expertise and resilience to take on this important role please let us know.
Main Duties & Key Accountabilities
Core Knowledge
Having a strategic overview of the Willow Tree strategy and an understanding of the different provisions in our schools.
Support the further development of the LEAFs@ provisions to meet children’s needs in our schools and beyond.
Knowing the cohorts in the LEAFs@ and supporting schools to evaluate the effectiveness of their provision.
Use key criteria to measure impact of the strategy, such as attendance and progress.
Promote the settings as a saleable commodity where and when appropriate, liaising with other local authorities and schools to do this.
Main Duties
You will be based at the LEAF Centre and together with the LEAF teacher will;
Lead, plan, deliver and monitor impact of personalised intervention programmes including the school readiness/return to mainstream programme.
Ensure Restorative Practice and a range of SEMH strategies are in place and used effectively.
Provide 1:1 and small group mentoring / coaching for children with a focus on Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) interventions.
Identify children’s underlying needs/issues using a range of assessment tools, then provide learning opportunities and mentoring/coaching to support students in addressing these needs/issues.
Promote pupil independence in learning and the development of social and emotional skills, reinforcing students' self-esteem through praise and encouragement, setting challenging and demanding expectations and promoting independence.
Monitor with the teacher, individual pupil progress, achievements and development needs, reporting to the responsible WTA SLT and Trust Board as appropriate.
Act as Key Worker to identified children, taking a lead role in their support and progress through regular intervention and through liaison with other staff, parents/carers and relevant agencies.
Assist in the development and implementation of Individual Education / Behaviour Plans and Personal Care Programmes
Assist with the supervision of children outside of formal lesson times, including before and after school and during lunch time.
Assist with group activities within and away from the LEAF Centre such as educational visits.
Arrange / organise educational and recreational activities off-site as requested.
Use specialist skills to de-escalate difficulties involving children and physically intervene if required, within the WTA guidelines and in accordance with Positive Handling training.
Track and support children who are being reintegrated back into mainstream school, in liaison with relevant staff and agencies.
Line management responsibility for the SEMH team.
Ensure that everyone works as a genuine team around pupils, with a consistency of approach and shared aims and strategies.
Promote resilience and support social and emotional learning.
Use strategies, in liaison with relevant staff, to support children to achieve learning goals.
Establish constructive relationships with children providing feedback to them in relation to progress and achievement.
Undertake supervision and manage the behaviour of children within the LEAF Centre as appropriate.
Assist with the implementation of programmes designed by other professionals such as educational psychologists and speech and language therapists.
Arrange / organise outside agencies to carry out work in the LEAF, as requested.
Track and support students who are being reintegrated back into mainstream school, in liaison with relevant staff and agencies.
Assist relevant staff in liaising with other professionals and reporting information from/to parents/carers, contributing to meetings to discuss pupil progress
Assist at the appropriate level, and within the protocols of Willow Tree Academy with the provision of general care and welfare of students which may include:
Assisting with students’ injuries and, where appropriately qualified, administering first aid.
Assist with the identification and monitoring of students’ general health and welfare.
Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, safeguarding, health and safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to appropriate SLT.
Support and contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of Willow Tree Academy
Work across WTA sites when necessary.
Participate in personal and professional development activities to meet the changing demands of the job and encourage and support other staff in their development and training.
Attend and participate in relevant meetings, CPD sessions, etc., as required.
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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