Children Mental Health Support Assistant
Position: Children Mental Health Support Assistant
Location: Plymouth & Cornwall area
Start Date: Jan 2025 to July 2025 (perm after this if successful)
Salary: £90 - £105 per day
About the role
The role of a Children Mental Health Support Assistant is to help young people with a diagnosis of Social, Emotional and Mental Health access education. The successful candidates will be supporting the students both academically as well as emotionally, ensuring they are cared for and encouraged to develop and progress.
Someone dedicated and resilient is required, with experience working with challenging behaviours. A sense of humour is desirable.
About the school
Our client schools are dedicated SEMH provisions for young people that have been unable to cope in a mainstream setting. The schools believe firmly in supporting and developing staff as much as possible and have a very positive team ethos and supportive Senior Leadership Team. They like to develop their staff from within, so whilst certain experience and qualifications are beneficial, they are not essential. Applications are welcomed from anyone with a passion to improve the lives of young people that may not have had the best start and who struggle with their mental health and behaviour.
Requirements
To be considered for the role of Children Mental Health Support Assistant you will:
* Have a warm and friendly nature to build positive relationships with pupils
* Calm and resilient approach to supporting children
* Sense of humour
* Desire to gain a permanent role in a school
* Have relevant experience of working with children, young people or vulnerable adults
Vision for Education is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. We take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff we register will undertake thorough interviewing and referencing checks and hold, or be prepared to undergo, an Enhanced DBS check that must be registered on the Update Service.
What Vision for Education offer
As a valued employee of Vision for Education, you will receive:
* Excellent daily rates paid weekly by our in-house Payroll team using the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system.
* Guaranteed pay scheme (subject to availability and qualifying criteria).
* Pension contributions (subject to a qualifying period).
* Full compliance with AWR (Agency Workers Regulations), to ensure you get the pay and working conditions you are entitled to.
* FREE training to help with your professional development such as Team Teach training, online webinars, and safeguarding and child protection updates.
* Generous refer-a-friend or colleague bonus scheme.
* Access to a dedicated consultant, who will provide ongoing support.
Vision for Education do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
To Apply:
Ready to take on this challenging and gratifying role as soon as possible? If you meet the requirements and are dedicated to making a difference in a child's education and life, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your application comprising a CV to (url removed)
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