Mental Health and Wellbeing Officer

Mental Health & Wellbeing Officer

Protocol Education is working in partnership with a well-regarded secondary school seeking to appoint a dedicated and experienced Mental Health & Wellbeing Officer.

This is an important role within the school’s pastoral structure, focused on supporting students’ emotional wellbeing and promoting positive mental health across the wider school community. The successful candidate will play a key part in ensuring that students feel safe, supported, and able to engage fully in their education.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide targeted 1:1 support for students experiencing emotional, social, or behavioural challenges

• Deliver small group interventions focused on resilience, self-regulation, and wellbeing

• Work closely with the safeguarding, pastoral, and SEND teams to ensure coordinated support

• Contribute to the development of whole-school wellbeing initiatives

• Liaise with external agencies and mental health services where appropriate

• Maintain accurate records in line with safeguarding and data protection policies

Person Specification

The school is seeking a candidate who:

• Has experience supporting young people with mental health or SEMH needs

• Demonstrates a trauma-informed and person-centred approach

• Possesses strong safeguarding knowledge and understanding of statutory guidance

• Is confident delivering both individual and group interventions

• Communicates effectively with students, staff, parents, and external professionals

• Maintains professionalism, resilience, and sound judgement in challenging situations

Experience within a secondary school, alternative provision, youth service, or similar setting is highly desirable.

The School Offers

• A supportive and collaborative pastoral team

• Clear leadership and structured systems

• Ongoing professional development opportunities

• A commitment to staff wellbeing and inclusive practice

Why Work with Protocol Education?

• Weekly PAYE pay

• Free access to our online CPD Academy

• Dedicated consultant support

• Opportunities across mainstream and specialist settings

• Streamlined registration process

• Referral reward scheme

If you are committed to supporting young people’s mental health and would like to contribute to a school community that prioritises wellbeing, we would welcome your application.

Please send your CV to jenna.aldrich@protocol-education.com

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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