Hours: 36.5 (Term time only)
Contract Type: Fixed Term (24 months)
Moseley School and Sixth Form
College Road
Springfield
Birmingham
B13 9UU
Start Date: 1 February 2025
The South Area Network of Birmingham schools is a large group of like-minded secondary schools, two alternative-provision Free Schools as well as post-16 and specialist providers located in south Birmingham and Solihull, serving more than 14,000 students.
The schools are individual and independent, but have worked together over a number of years, valuing the benefits that come from working as a group, and developing a number of shared successful projects. This role has been created to deliver a new and ambitious project to set up an early-help resource for our schools so young people can access specialist support as quickly as possible within their school or from the Network.
We wish to appoint a dynamic and highly motivated Mental Health Professional with one of the following professional registrations:
* Registered Mental Health Nurse with at least 2 years post qualification experience within child and adolescent mental health
* Registered Children’s Nurse with at least 2 years post qualification experience within child and adolescent mental health
* Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse with at least 2 years post qualification experience within child and adolescent mental health
* NHS recognised Allied Health Professional with at least 2 years post qualification experience within child and adolescent mental health including; Registered Occupational Therapist, Qualified Music Therapist, Qualified Art Therapist, Qualified Drama Therapist.
* Qualified Speech and Language Therapist
The mental health professional will lead on mental health and wellbeing strategy across the South Area Network of Schools in Birmingham including direct work with young people and families. This is an exciting role to work across a diverse group of schools, supported by the network’s inclusion team, to develop provision and have a direct impact on the lives of young people.
The successful candidate will provide strategic and clinical expertise and advice to school mental health practitioners, supporting assessment and interventions to staff, pupils and their families.
This role will be crucial in delivering the Network’s ambition to provide the highest quality early help to young people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges through training, supervision and actively supporting the Network’s inclusion leaders in ensuring Network schools are equipped to respond and support pupils struggling with poor mental health and wellbeing.
The successful candidate will be employed directly by one of the Network schools: Moseley School and Sixth Form.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Closing Date: 16 January 2025, 12:00 midday
How to Apply:
Please visit our school website recruitment page for further information regarding the role and details about our school https://moseley.bham.sch.uk/
We welcome visitors to the school. Please contact us if you would like to arrange a visit.
Please contact the Recruitment Team if you would like further information regarding this role or the school in general please email us on recruitment@moseley.bham.sch.uk
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