Mental Health Support Worker / Learning Mentor

Basildon £89.48 - 100.00 per day Permanent Teaching 311021490 Posted 3 weeks ago

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Mental Health Support Worker / Learning Mentor (SEN)

Do you want to make a real difference?
Do you enjoy supporting children or vulnerable young people?
Do you have experience in social care, SEN, or personal experience supporting SEND?

If so, this could be the role for you.

Protocol Education is recruiting a Learning Support Assistant / Teaching Assistant to work within a Specialist School Setting, supporting children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.

You will be joining a supportive and experienced team, working with pupils who require patience, consistency and positive role models. While experience with SEMH is beneficial, it is not essential—a strong attitude, resilience and a genuine desire to support children are key.

The ideal candidate will:

Have a positive, calm and resilient approach
Be able to build strong relationships quickly with individual pupils
Show empathy, patience and consistency when supporting challenging behaviour
Be confident working with children with SEMH and additional needs

Role details:

Long-term, full-time position
Monday to Friday | 8:30am – 3:30pm
Based in Basildon, Essex
Applicants from Southend, Benfleet, Wickford, Billericay and Chelmsford are welcome to apply

If you have a genuine passion for supporting children with special educational needs and feel this role could be right for you, apply today.

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.

Full assistance provided. For details of our privacy policy, please see visit the Protocol Education website.

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