Mental Health Practitioner
Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy
Lancaster
- Expired
- Salary:
- NJC APT&C Pay Scale Grade 6 pts 11-19 (FTE £24,054 - £27,852)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- as soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 9 December 2022
Job overview
The Bay Learning Trust are seeking to appoint a Mental Health Practitioner to join our supportive, caring staff team, to provide high quality counselling and well-being support services to students and staff experiencing a wide range of emotional problems. The successful applicant will be working across all schools in the Trust. We know that many young people are finding things hard at the moment and services outside of school are equally stretched. Our vision is to be able to provide further support in-house and also to provide some early preventative help. If you would love to be part of a great team we would really like to hear from you.
This post is 35 hrs per week, term time only plus 2 weeks. Please see the job description for full details or visit
www.ripleystthomas.com/vacancies
Closing date: 9am on Friday December 2022
About The Bay Learning Trust
The Trust was set up by Ripley St Thomas in 2016. In 2018 Carnforth High School joined the Trust family, and they were subsequently joined by Morecambe Bay Academy and Central Lancaster High School in 2019.
It has been very exciting to see the development of the Trust; we are now able to make a significant contribution to the education of young people in our local area. The Trust’s priority is to improve the quality of education in all our schools and so enhance the life chances of our young people. Equally importantly, we want to develop well-rounded and considerate students who will contribute to their local communities and make a positive difference wherever they are. An excellent education is about more than examination results!
Our Vision and Values
Vision:
Our vision is to build a family of like-minded primary and secondary schools in the geographical area of Morecambe Bay who work and learn together to secure an excellent education for all our young people.
Values:
- Reciprocity: every school contributes to our learning
- Generosity: we are all concerned about all our schools and support each other willingly
- Honesty: we acknowledge both our strengths and weaknesses
- Humility: we recognise that we all have much to learn
Our Principles and Aims
Principles:
- Our young people always come first
- Our young people should have opportunities to develop in body, mind and spirit
- Our young people can all be successful
Aims:
- Improve and sustain high levels of school performance
- Develop a self-sustaining community that learns from each other and from the best available external practice
- Allow schools to focus on teaching and learning through a central team that supports them with finance, buildings and staffing
- To ensure that our schools remain financially sustainable
- Develop our premises to create the best possible learning environment
For more information about the Bay Learning Trust please visit https://www.baylearningtrust.com/
In line with our safeguarding policies, we are unable to accept CVs. To apply for this post you must complete the application form. Along with your application form, please also provide a letter (of no more than 2 sides, using Tahoma 11 font) outlining your experience relative to the job description and explaining what you will bring to the role.
Ripley St Thomas CE Academy and the Bay Learning Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check. Further details will be sent to shortlisted candidates.
It is an offence to apply for this role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
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About Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy
- Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy
- Ashton Road, Lancaster
- Lancashire
- LA1 4RS
- United Kingdom
Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy is situated in the historic City Lancaster within easy distance wonderful scenery Morecambe Bay, Lake District and Yorkshire Dales.
Ripley was founded in 1864, the gift of Thomas and Julia Ripley, who established the school to provide an education for children from impoverished families. The school was built as a boarding school for 150 boys and 150 girls and has grown to be the largest school in Lancashire with 1700 pupils, 300 of whom are in the sixth form. Ripley became an academy in 2011.
The academy seeks to combine innovation with its strong traditions. Our buildings provide an excellent symbol of this with our Grade 2* listed chapel alongside a modern glass dining hall and a state of the art new library facility. The working farm, a feature of the building from its earliest days, continues to thrive and all our young people study Agriculture and Horticulture at KS3. The lambing season is one of the highlights of the year!
Our Christian foundation underpins all we do; our desire to develop young people in body, mind and spirit is evidenced by the strength of the academy chaplaincy work, the strong ethos of service and the breadth of our curriculum and extra-curricular activities. Our desire is that every young person should find a niche at Ripley where he/she can succeed, develop and make a positive contribution to the academy community and beyond.
Ripley is a successful and ambitious academy. We have been graded outstanding by Ofsted in all areas. We are a SCITT (School centred initial teacher training) provider. Pupils enter the academy with high previous attainment and leave with results well above the national average. Results are outstanding across nearly all subject areas at each Key Stage. Our A-Level result consistently place us in the top 25% of providers nationally for value-added.
An exciting range of co-curricular provision at the academy offers young people great opportunities to develop and learn new skills. Music and Sport are particular strengths at Ripley with hundreds of young people taking part in practices and rehearsals during the week. A system of leadership challenges through each of the year groups enables pupils to develop the wider skills so essential for success in today’s society. The Duke of Edinburgh award is one of these challenges with almost 400 pupils enrolled; we offer the Bronze, Silver and Gold awards. The academy has a long tradition of service with pupils raising significant amounts of money for local, national and international charities and getting involved in charitable ventures.
There are 105 teaching staff and 70 support staff at the academy; all benefit from personalised professional development available to staff at all stages of their career. The staff community at Ripley is very supportive and friendly and make Ripley a great place to work.
The culture of this school is one of hard work, of service and of commitment to providing the highest quality of educational experience possible for our young people. This is not a school for those who seek a quiet life. We need talented, committed teachers and high quality leadership to enable Ripley to continue to improve the quality of educational experience for our young people.
Ripley St Thomas CE Academy 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.
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