Mental Health Support Team (VCSE Post 16 provision) - Hull

Mental health support in school and colleges is an initiative which is part of the national NHS transformation programme in response to a Green Paper for transforming children and young people's mental health.

The Provider will work with a wider network of support teams from secondary care mental health provider(s) to deliver early help and intervention in schools and educational settings across Hull. The focus of the work will be to support young people age 16+, their families and educators.

The service will ensure that young people access the right help at the right time and in the right setting and will support young people, families and educators, providing extra capacity for early intervention support within school, college and training settings.

The service will provide support for mild to moderate emotional wellbeing issues, based on low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and education/vocational training setting counselling. The interventions are delivered either through 1:1 or small group sessions, whole class and assemblies.

The service will also provide support to education settings in developing, implementing and maintaining a whole school and college approach to emotional wellbeing developed by the Department for Education and Office of Health Inequalities and Disparities (OHID).

The Mental Health Support Teams deliver a national framework of support with qualified staff delivering interventions.