Job Description

Culcheth High School

Warrington
29,093 - 32,654 per year

Salary:

The position is NJC grade 6 points 15-22

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Start date:

01 October 2025

Apply by:

31 August 2025

Job overview

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Schools Link Mental Health Team Member





The position is NJC grade 6 points 15-22


29,093 - 32,654 pro-rata


Actual salary 25,666 to 28,807 for a 40 week working year


37 hours per week, term time plus 2 weeks, permanent contract


We wish to appoint a Schools Link Mental Health Team Member, who will be based in our popular and oversubscribed school in North Cheshire. The role, starting in the autumn term 2025, is full time, working term time plus two weeks during the school holidays.


This is a very exciting time to join our team. The position involves supporting Warrington schools' mental health provision, working alongside mental health professionals across a wide range of school settings. The support you will be providing, includes one to one and group interventions, advice and working with external partner agencies, in line with THRIVE and clinical and safeguarding competencies.


Successful applicants will have an extensive induction programme, including focused training and support from mental health professionals before case work begins. The Schools Link Mental Health Team receive continual professional development. Each team member will manage a defined case-load, providing focused assessment and evidence interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate, emotional and mental health difficulties.


This is a busy and demanding position working across a range of schools and other settings. You will need to be a highly motivated with strong interpersonal skills, able to build effective working relationships with students, parents/carers and colleagues alike. You will be sensitive, patient, and resilient, able to respond to individual needs whilst maintaining a professional approach. An understanding of the emotional and social pressures/issues that have an impact on young people is essential, coupled with the confidence and ability to work with young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.


The ideal candidate will be flexible, solutions focused and have a friendly and positive disposition. You must have great organisational and planning skills and be equally happy working in team environment or independently. As the position involves daily travel across a range of locations, a driving licence, access to a car and a willingness to drive is essential.


Further details can be found in our recruitment pack, which is available on our website www.culchethhigh.org.uk Closing date for applications is 31st August 2025 and interviews will take place the week commencing 8th September 2025.


We are committed to safeguarding our students and each other. The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service with Child Barring checks and the receipt of satisfactory references.


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Culcheth High School

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Culcheth High School

Warrington Road, Culcheth, Culcheth
Warrington
WA3 5HH
United Kingdom

+44 1925 767587

Our School

As a high performing school, we o?er a rich, broad and engaging education for all our young people. Culcheth High School is a successful mixed community school currently catering for around 1100 11-16 year olds. Our current examination performance places us consistently as one of Warrington's highest performing schools. Not only do students at Culcheth attain much higher success ratios than students nationally, they also make excellent progress from their starting points. The school's aim is to get the very best from each student; not only through superb teaching and learning but also by encouraging involvement in extra-curricular and community activities.



The school enjoys an enviable reputation within its locality. It is extremely popular and has been signifcantly oversubscribed in recent years with the school roll growing. It attracts students from more than 25 di?erent primary schools within four di?erent local education authorities. We are part of Warrington Local Authority which provides a supportive and professional advisory service.



Our most recent Ofsted report (May 2014) gave us a grade 2 rating ("good"). We are delighted that the improvements made in the school have been given public acknowledgement. The school was rated "good" in all major areas. Inspectors praised teaching and learning ("a good proportion of lessons are now outstanding"), personal development ("behaviour and attitudes to learning are good") and leadership and management. We were pleased with the report but not complacent. We want to improve further and our ultimate objective is to achieve Ofsted's highest award of 'Outstanding School'.

Our School's Purpose is:

To inspire students to achieve and guide them to be confident, articulate and skilled citizens to enable them to thrive in a diverse British and global community.

Our Vision of Culcheth High School is:

A truly exceptional forward thinking school with high expectations for all learners through a relentless approach to breaking down barriers to learning and evidenced by high standards of achievement across all ages, regardless of background.


A learning centred school which strives to nurture and develop the talents of all of its students A vibrant, tolerant and aspirational school community characterised by high levels of sta? and student happiness and mutual respect, underpinned by pride, ambition and a commitment to achievement and enrichment for all A school community where all sta? are committed to the 'Always Learning' ethos through personalised professional development underpinned by a collaborative coaching culture which promotes and nurtures all sta? to sustain excellence and develop further A school that truly works in the community, with the community and for the community A financially efficient school that can provide for itself, think for itself and utilise resources to maximise the best outcomes for all A school that provides a relevant, purposeful and inspiring curriculum for all students enabling them to be active citizens in a modern diverse British and global community.

Our School's Values are:

We want everyone to work in a caring school where everyone is valued and everyone values relationships. Our emotionally intelligent school community will celebrate individual di?erences and people will understand how their actions will impact upon, and be perceived by, those they a?ect. We expect all members of our school community to be the best they can be and help others to be the best that they can be by valuing:

Respect, Honesty and Excellence.

Our Staffing

We have a very capable and talented team of sta?. The Senior Leadership Team consists of the Headteacher, 1 Deputy Headteacher, 5 Assistant Headteachers and the Finance and Business Manager. We have circa 70 teaching and 50 support sta?. The school is also supported by a committed and enthusiastic Governing Body, the members of which have a diverse range of skills and expertise. We are strongly committed to the development of our sta?. We use external courses to support colleagues but also believe firmly in the benefits of internal expertise - sharing through coaching and "in-house" good practice sessions. We also work with a group of other schools to support teacher training in middle-management and excellent classroom practice.

Our Facilities

We are proud that high-class teaching and learning at Culcheth High School is supported by the best in modern facilities. We moved into a 29m new building in July 2010 with fantastic, state-of-the-art modern facilities. Each classroom is equipped with projectors and interactive equipment; there are now around 1200 computers for student use

Our Facilities and Employee Benefits Include:

Free parking Free unlimited refreshments On site multi gym Discount rewards scheme at major retailers and restaurants Occupational health service An open-plan restaurant and cafe Fabulous science labs and technology suites Large areas for creative and media A superb multi-purpose assembly hall Classrooms that operate dually as double learning spaces A Conference Centre Extensive ILC

Our Location

The school is based in the leafy village of Culcheth, in rural north Cheshire, mid-way between Manchester and Liverpool. It is a well appointed village, with a population of around 6,000. It is ideally located within easy access of a network of motorways and major roads. It is within close proximity to several business and technology parks. Housing in the area consists mainly of private property supplemented by some rented accommodation. The majority of our students live in Culcheth and the surrounding villages but we take students from other parts of Warrington and also other authorities such as Salford, Wigan and St Helens.



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