School Wellbeing Coaches

Wellbeing Coach X3
Reference: 830/WBC
Location: Across schools in the London Borough of Southwark as required and at The Nest’s hub in Peckham
Contract: 12 months Fixed Term
Salary: £28,000 (pro rate for part time posts)
Hours:

• 37.5 hours per week for full time posts
• 21 hours per week for part time posts

Our client is a community charity with a green heart that has been at the forefront of social and environmental regeneration in London for over 20 years. Each year they deliver hundreds of innovative environmental and social action projects across the capital. Their projects change places and lives for the better in some of London’s most deprived and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This includes working with communities to make their neighbourhoods greener and more resilient to climate change, supporting long-term unemployed individuals to find work, helping young people get back into education and training, and advising residents how to save money on their energy and water needs

The Nest is this organisations mental wellbeing support service for young people aged 11 - 25 and living in the London Borough of Southwark. Since launching as a remote service in May of 2020, right in the middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the service has gone from strength to strength and they are looking for passionate, experienced, skilled and driven individuals to join the team as they get ready to increase their mental health provision for schools as part of Southwark Council’s New Youth Deal.

The Wellbeing Coaches will be qualified therapists and have knowledge and experience of delivering evidence based interventions in 1:2:1 and group settings, as well as an understanding of the barriers and challenges that children, young people and their families can face when seeking mental wellbeing support. You will have to have the ability to engage and work with a range of young people with multiple support needs.

Most important of all will be your approach: this is an exciting, fast paced and ever growing service at the forefront of early intervention mental health support for young people in Southwark, so they are looking for people with the ambition and commitment to match their own.

They are looking for x2 Secondary School Practitioners (x1 FT, x1 PT) and x1 Primary School Wellbeing Coach (FT), You will have the chance to indicate on your application form which position(s) you are interested in applying for.

Closing date for applications: 9am 26th July 2021
Interview date: 29th July 2021 (interviews will be conducted remotely)

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Please click the apply button. You will be prompted to complete a simple CHM Recruit form and then redirected to the employer’s website where you can complete your application for this position.

Appointment to this role is subject to an enhanced Criminal Records check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

This is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.

No agencies please.