SEN Specialist Practitioner (SEMH)

Job introduction

Exciting opportunity to join BHISS SEMH team and the Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce (APST)

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting mainstream schools tio manage children and young people with SEMH

Fixed term for: 12 months-Sept 25 to Aug 26

Interview date: Thursday 18th September

(Only for Fixed Term Contracts) This role is available as a secondment to internal applicants in line with our secondment policy. Before applying, please ensure you have read the Secondment policy to ensure you are eligible to apply. In accordance with the policy, please ensure you have the written approval of your line manager before applying. Evidence of this must be included with your application.

For an informal discussion, please contact Mark Holdaway - Senior Specialist Teacher (BHISS SEMH) 07713 711177 or Kate Barker-APST Strategic Lead 07511 162275

About the role

An exciting, fixed term, full-time specialist practitioner position has become available. One of the posts will likely sit entirely within the multi-disciplinary Alternative Provision Taskforce and the other split between this taskforce and the BHISS Social, Emotional and Mental Health Team (SEMH), which currently operates as the city’s behaviour outreach service for 0–16-year-olds.

BHISS-SEMH offers support, advice, trainings as well as direct in-school interventions for children whose behaviours are likely to mean they are at risk of suspension. Our key aims are to reduce fixed term suspensions; maintain children’s mainstream placement as well as develop colleagues’ capacity to manage challenge. We also offer a variety of bespoke trainings and forums for staff, both 1-1 and small groups, to discuss challenge as well as devise clear programmes of support for referred children. The ability to ably represent the team at multi-disciplinary meetings across the city is vital.

BHISS is located at the Portslade Hub. The role is challenging and will see you working peripatetically across the city.

The Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce is a Government funded pilot scheme that looks to provide more intensive support, through a multi-disciplinary team, for referred children within 3 of the city’s schools. The postholder could well blend an element of both roles within their working week.

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Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

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Company information

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Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.