Social Emotional Mental Health Support Assistant

Silverdale School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 9QH

34 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  November 2026

• Closing date

  6 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 August 2026

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: £26,403.00 - £28,598.00 Annually (FTE) £23,873 - £25,858 (Actual)

Social Emotional Mental Health Support Assistant job summary

We are seeking to appoint a committed, empathetic and student-centred colleague to support the emotional health and wellbeing of our students.

The successful candidate will work with some of our most vulnerable students supporting them in accessing the help they require to feel safe and well and to achieve within Silverdale.

Duties, within the inclusion team, will include working with mental health and wellbeing intervention such as our innovative PT20 programme, liaising with key stakeholders regarding student wellbeing and providing safeguarding support, as part of the safeguarding team.

This role requires candidates to have GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4 or above (or equivalent). The successful candidate will be expected to provide evidence of their GCSE certificates.

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 Silverdale School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1491 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Silverdale School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/silverdale-school-sheffield

Silverdale School is an extremely popular and high-achieving 11-18 comprehensive in the south west of Sheffield and is now the founding school of Chorus Education Trust. The school achieved the best GCSE results in 2018 of any state school in Sheffield. At Post 16 the progress students make places Silverdale in the top 10% of schools nationally. At its heart is one of the country’s largest Teaching Schools, the Sheffield Teaching School Alliance. Silverdale moved into a brand new building in January 2009 with a full complement of facilities. Silverdale School is part of Chorus Education Trust, and as such all appointees may be required to work at any Trust site in the future.

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