Wellbeing Assistant
Empower future minds: join us in nurturing emotional literacy and resilience in students as our Wellbeing Assistant.
Start Date: As soon as possible
Salary: £8,209.11 - £12.65p/h– pay award review pending
Contract: 15 Hours per week, 38 weeks per year
Closing Date: Monday 31st March, 2025 at 12:00pm
Are you passionate about promoting emotional wellbeing and supporting young people? We are looking for a Wellbeing Assistant to help students develop emotional literacy, coping strategies, and social skills in an inclusive educational environment.
Wellbeing Assistant
To provide wellbeing support and guidance to students to increase their emotional literacy and coping strategies to enable an educational experience, which prepares students for adulthood and is in accordance with our organisational values:
Equality Empowerment Respect Sustainability
Wellbeing Assistant Responsibilities:
- Deliver tier 1 Wellbeing sessions to the students under the support of the counsellor.
- Support the implementation of therapeutic interventions through effective modelling of practices within a classroom setting.
- Support students who have significant communication difficulties using a total communication approach.
- Assist in the facilitation of lunch time social activities to improve the wellbeing of the students.
- Gather evidence and record data for assessment purposes and to measure impact of intervention strategies under the guidance of the relevant therapists.
- Support the effective embedding of literacy, numeracy, communication, IT, British Values and Prevent in all aspects of learning.
- Develop and adapt new learning resources to enhance the learning experience and enable greater independence.
- Co-create the students passports with the students, ensuring student voice is embedded throughout.
- Refer students to the counsellor where additional support is required.
- Participate in supervision with the counsellor to ensure safe and effect practice.
General Responsibilities for all Staff:
- Ensure that all beneficiaries are treated with dignity and respect.
- Empower students and residents to maintain their personal independence and confidentiality.
- Contribute positively to a high-quality teaching, learning and caring environment.
- Comply with health & safety and safeguarding regulations.
- Any other reasonable duties commensurate with role as required
Education & Qualifications
| Attribute | Criteria | Evidence |
| Mental Health / Wellbeing qualification Level 3 or above. | Essential | Certs |
| English at Level 2 or above | Essential | Certs |
| Maths at Level 2 or above | Essential | Certs |
| Level 2 in Autism | Essential | Certs |
Experience, Knowledge & Abilities
| Attribute | Criteria | Evidence |
| Experience of supporting young people and adults with behavioural difficulties either in an education or health and social care setting | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Experience supporting people with a learning disability and SEMH | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Experience within a SEN education provision | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Experience of supporting individuals using a positive behaviour support model | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team | Desirable | App Form & Int |
| Experience of implementing therapy-based interventions under the guidance of a qualified therapist | Desirable | App Form & Int |
| Experience of supporting young people and adults with communication difficulties using a total communication approach | Desirable | App Form & Int |
Interpersonal Skills & Qualities
| Attribute | Criteria | Evidence |
| Skilled communicator and effective both orally and in writing | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Evidence of developing and maintaining effective relationships | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Be able to model best practice and support changes in practice | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Able to work on your own and as part of a team | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Has a genuine desire to improve the lives of both our students and residents and is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Self-motivated and proactive approach | Essential | App Form & Int |
| Flexible approach to work and hours of work | Essential | App Form & Int |
Note: This job description and person specification is not an exhaustive description – it is a guide and will be subject to review to meet the service / business needs.
