Aspiring Mental Health Practitioner

Aspiring Mental Health Practitioner (SEMH Teaching Assistant)

Crawley - West Sussex - Graduate - SEMH Teaching Assistant - Outreach - Intervention - Mental Health - SEN - Education and Training - Psychology - Criminology - Sociology

Are you passionate about restorative approaches? Are you passionate about demonstrating the value of education to vulnerable children? Are you an Aspiring Mental Health Practitioner?

With this Aspiring Mental Health Practitioner (SEMH Teaching Assistant) role based in Crawley, you will work in a secondary school setting, supporting children with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs and traumas. Some of the children / young people will have suffered adverse childhood experiences, and you will identify their risks and needs, escalating where necessary.

You will be instrumental in building relationships, providing consistency, and equipping children and young people with tools to ensure they feel safe, secure, empowered, and believe that they can succeed in life, reducing the risk of them entering the criminal justice system.

Based on holistic and therapeutic practice, with a focus on restorative practice, this role in Crawley will give you essential restorative experience within anti-social and challenging settings - career progression routes include Mental Health Practitioner, Youth Criminal Justice Worker, Probation Officer,...