Job Title: Mental Health Support Worker – Secondary SEMH
Location: South Shields
Salary: £89–£108 per day
Contract: Full-time, Long-Term
Start Date: September 2025
Are you calm, resilient, and ready to make a real difference to young people’s lives?
We’re working with a specialist secondary setting in South Shields that supports pupils with social, emotional, and mental health needs (SEMH). They’re looking for a compassionate Mental Health Support Worker to join their team from September.
What you’ll be doing:
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Supporting pupils aged 11–16 who face a range of emotional and behavioural challenges
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Building trusted relationships and helping students feel safe, heard, and valued
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Delivering personalised interventions to support self-regulation and wellbeing
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Working closely with teachers, SENCOs and therapists to create a consistent, trauma-informed approach
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Encouraging positive behaviour and celebrating small steps of progress
About you:
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Experience supporting young people with SEMH, trauma, or behavioural needs
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Confident using de-escalation strategies and building trust over time
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Patient, empathetic and able to stay calm under pressure
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Relevant background (education, youth work, mental health, psychology or care)
What Protocol Education offers:
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Weekly pay through PAYE (no umbrella deductions)
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FREE access to our online CPD Academy, including de-escalation and safeguarding
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Personalised support from a consultant who understands SEMH settings
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Opportunities to secure long-term roles or transition to permanent contracts
This is more than just a job-it’s a chance to be someone’s safe space.
Apply now or get in touch to learn more about the role.
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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