Mental Health And Wellbeing Mentor
Worcester Sixth Form College
Worcestershire
- £11,695 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Actual starting salary for 25 hours will be £11,695, based on the Sixth Form Colleges’ Support Staff Salary Spine points 8 – 11
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 30/08/2022
- Apply by:
- 13 June 2022
Job overview
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health & wellbeing mentor, to join our pastoral team and provide support to students. You will provide interventions to individual students for whom this would be beneficial to their wellbeing, attendance at the College and success in their studies. You will also provide regular focused group work. You will liaise with the Senior Lead for Wellbeing, the College counselling service and the pastoral team to ensure student access to appropriate internal and external sources of support. You will contribute to cross college campaigns and events to inform students of key messages relating to mental health and wellbeing, and the planning of relevant tutorial activities.
The successful applicant will be educated to Level 3 and will have some mental health/wellbeing training and experience. You will demonstrate effective interpersonal, organisational and administrative skills and have experience of offering mental health & wellbeing interventions. You will have experience of working with individuals from different cultures, disabilities, sexual orientations and ages, preferably within a further/higher education setting.
You will be well supported in this role by the College’s Designated Safeguarding Lead.
Please note, the role is part-time, term-time only for 25-30 hours per week (hours to be negotiated during interview). However, as this is a new role, full-time hours would also be considered, and again could be discussed during interview and/or reviewed during the first year.
Interviews for this post are currently scheduled to take place week commencing 20th June 2022 and candidates will be notified by email and phone.
Safeguarding Statement
Worcester Sixth Form College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check.
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About Worcester Sixth Form College
- Worcester Sixth Form College
- Spetchley Road, Worcester
- Worcestershire
- WR5 2LU
- United Kingdom
Worcester Sixth Form College is proud to be part of Heart of Mercia Multi-Academy Trust and supports the Trust’s vision of providing a range of excellent learning opportunities within the region, in a positive, friendly and tolerant culture that will equip them to fulfil their potential and meet their individual goals. In order to achieve this vision, Heart of Mercia is committed to sustaining high achieving sixth form colleges as the best environment for the personal, academic and career development for 16 to 19 year olds.
At Worcester Sixth Form College, we are specialists in the education of 16-19 year olds and our staff are experts in meeting the needs of this age group. Every year we admit 800 or so students from the whole county of Worcestershire and from surrounding areas. This enables us to offer an exceptionally wide range of courses and flexible programmes in which any course can be combined with virtually any other course. Our students are highly successful, not just academically, but in many other kinds of endeavour, including sports, performing arts, music, Duke of Edinburgh, charity fund raising and a wide variety of other extra-curricular areas.
· Academies in Sports, Performing Arts, Maths and Science
· A long track record of supporting students with learning needs in achieving their full potential
For further details please refer to our website.
Equality
We are proud to be an inclusive organisation where individual differences are accepted and valued and where everyone is able to fulfil their potential in a welcoming, safe and non threatening environment. Worcester Sixth Form College is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for students, employers, community groups, staff, governors, members of the public and for others who come into contact with the College.
The College is an equal opportunities employer and staff, students, volunteers and workers are expected to respect the principles of open access and opportunity for all regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Applications from members of the ethnic minorities would be particularly welcome as they are currently under represented in our workforce.
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