Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.  

Bexley is a high performing Council with well-regarded Children's Services. We are striving to improve educational and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs and disability across the Borough. We have a well-established and innovative Early Intervention Team, that includes SEN Strategic Support Partners, Educational Psychologists, SEMH Support Partners, AEN/SEN Support Partner and Early Intervention Team Social Workers. There are strong links with the School Improvement and Partnership and Statutory Assessment teams, as well as with Children’s Social Care teams. The Early Intervention Team work very closely with schools at the SEN Support stage (SEND Code of Practice) but also undertake relevant work outside of school settings

The focus of the teams is on early intervention, seeking to provide support to children, young people and their families who require additional help to achieve successful outcomes in school, but whose needs are not severe enough for them to meet the criteria for higher threshold services. Providing support at an early stage will enable needs to be addressed and ensure that the numbers needing higher level services will reduce over time. We have recently been awarded 5 years of DfE funding to deliver additional early intervention programmes into our early years and school aged settings.

We have a vacancy within our team for a full time Social and Emotional Mental Health Partner. 

The main purpose of the job is:
· To provide early intervention support, advice and guidance to schools, parents and other professionals in terms of children who are experiencing social, emotional, or behaviour difficulties within school to prevent the need of high threshold services being provided. 
· The post holder will have a role in advising and training schools and teaching staff in terms of behaviour strategies for groups of children. 
· They will work directly with children and parents/carers as necessary, assessing their needs, and planning and delivering programmes of support and interventions to individuals and groups of children. This will be in order to re- establish effective engagement with education and improve attendance, progress and attainment. 
· To contribute to the delivery of The Incredible years Programme to parents, carers of pupils across preschool, primary and secondary schools.

This may involve some evening/school holiday delivery to be negotiated on an individual basis.  

For an informal discussion about the role please Laura Bakker, Early Intervention Team Manager on 02030455020 or laura.bakker@bexley.gov.uk.  

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document attached. 

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date. 
 

We are looking for a Qualified Teacher with significant experience of behaviour management strategies in classroom settings, with the skills and abilities to work across the compulsory school age.  

For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached. 

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).  

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.     

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Additional Information 

As a disability confident employer Bexley welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on  recruitment@bexley.gov.uk