Student and Family Education Worker –  West London

£19 per hour

Contract – Full Time

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provide individual and group mentoring to students experiencing difficulties in dealing with issues such as inter personal relationships, emotion management, anxiety, behaviour problems, grief, self harm, abuse, family conflict.
• The ultimate goal of this counselling is to promote changes in attitudes, skills, behaviour, knowledge and/or awareness to enhance students’ well being and increase connectedness to school to facilitate learning
• Mediation between students
• Liaison with parents
• Enabling students to identify their existing unhelpful patterns of behaviour
• Consult with parents, teachers, other agencies regarding strategies to assist students to meet their potential
• Helping students to decide on and implement appropriate courses of action; Referring students to other sources of help, if appropriate, including writing referrals and checking progress of referrals
• Writing reports of students’ progress and interventions used in counselling eg.
  for CAMHS, Social Services
• Liaising when necessary with other agencies
• Co-ordinating student referrals eg to YOS and the CAF
• Attending meetings in and outside school eg.
  Case Conferences, Professionals Meetings, Health, Youth Offending Service
• Conduct Home Visits where appropriate
• In response to specific student needs assist staff with conflict resolution, anger management and organising peer support; Support staff by providing strategies for them to use with SEMH needs students
• Promote student counselling, ensuring that staff and partners are aware of the positive benefits
• Administration duties as required
• Collect work for students who are not attending lessons
• Work with students in the Inclusion room or parents to collect if students have been excluded from lessons
• To work proactively with outside agencies/charities to provide additional opportunities
• support for students (eg Beat Bullying, Easy Project, Young Carers)
• Provide First Aid in the absence of the Welfare and attendance officer

To find out more information please contact Lily at Lilye@4recruitmentservices.com

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices.
We are an equal opportunity agency.