Job Title: SEMH Outreach Worker
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
Salary Range: £45,456.18 to £51,528.70
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: Yes
Advert Closing Date:07/03/2025
By joining the Government of Jersey and wider Jersey Public Services, you'll be proud of what you can achieve – both for yourself and the people of Jersey. You'll enjoy a broader scope that allows you to express yourself, in a smaller setting that means you see the positive results of your impact every day. You'll have a diversity of opportunities that stretch and challenge you, with all the personal and professional support you need. Most of all, in our open, welcoming environment, your voice matters, enabling you to build a rewarding career.
Job Overview
To provide support to individual Young People with SEMH needs in the classroom/other settings/outdoor learning to engage in positive learning experiences
Job Purpose
To support the inclusion service as part of the Education Department Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) provision supporting pupils identified from Reception to KS 4 who require support in transition between settings and working alongside schools to support SEMH pupils.
To support the Education Department’s aspiration for children and young people with Special Educational Needs to attend their local, mainstream school or a specialist setting, having their SEMH needs met effectively and making good academic progress.
Job Specific Outcomes 1 of 2
- Build up links with key staff in schools and with individual families to support with smooth transitions learning activities.
- Work with schools, the Inclusion and Early Intervention Service and other agencies to identify and support those children who are at risk of non-school attendance due to SEMH.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work as member of a team and develop and maintain good relations with all members of the school community.
- Work collaboratively with all agencies to ensure that a ‘Team Around the Child’ approach is developed ensuring the best outcomes for all young people.
- To ensure effective monitoring and evaluation of outcomes relating to transitions and positive engagement in learning.
- To support with appropriate teaching programmes, the recording of achievement and progress providing accurate feedback.
Job Specific Outcomes 2 of 2
- To accompany teaching staff on visits, trips and supervise young people too and from school where necessary.
- Be aware of and comply with all policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security.
- Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.
- Complete Maybo Train the trainer and deliver training in schools across the island for Positive approaches to Behaviour, Safer De-escalation and Safer Handling Training.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively at all levels with pupils , families, staff and other agencies.
Person specification
Daily contact with various stakeholders around the organisation to support young people with transition and learning. Stakeholders may include: Parents, pupils, Head teachers, teaching and other school staff. Within the Education Department this is likely to include the Head of Service for SEMH, La Passerelle staff and other Inclusion Colleagues such as Education Welfare, Psychology and Wellbeing, Parenting Support
Across the Government of Jersey and public service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wider range of opportunities – to work with recognised experts across teams, learn new skills and develop their careers. We actively look to recruit people from different backgrounds, with diverse perspectives. This creates a richer, more varied environment, where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new opportunities, so you can develop an exciting and rewarding career.
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