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Job overview
The London Academy of Excellence would like to appoint a new Mental Health Lead, a pivotal role in our school. LAET’s leaders are deeply committed to student wellbeing and pastoral care, recognising the impact this has on the excellent outcomes of our students.
The successful candidate will work as part of a very well-resourced and experienced pastoral team. The Mental Health Lead will work closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead (Deputy Headteacher) and safeguarding team which includes a Safeguarding Officer (SGO), and SEN Learning Support Assistant as Deputy DSLs. They will also work alongside our Heads of Year and Deputy Heads of Year and work closely with our counselling team to support the pastoral needs of students.
This role is suited to applicants with a background in counselling and safeguarding who are looking to support our aspirational and impressive students to meet their academic potential, ideally with experience in youth mental health services.
In fulfilling this role, the successful candidates will model the values of the school in being academically ambitious and committed to the wellbeing of young people in our unique environment as an academically selective 16-19 school.
About us
LAE Tottenham is a selective 16-19 free school, which offers a rigorous academic curriculum alongside a broad co-curricular programme and exceptional pastoral support enabling students to access high tariff universities. In 2020-21, nearly 75% of students won places at Russell Group universities, from a cohort in which 51% of students had been eligible for free school meals at secondary school.
The role is advertised on a full-time 40 hours per week basis and is term-time plus three weeks. It is offered on a permanent basis.
LAE Tottenham
- Academically selective 6th form, opened in September 2017. Results in the top 3% nationally for attainment and progress.
- Principal Education Sponsor Highgate School and Lead Business Sponsor Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
- Partnered by eight other leading independent schools - Alleyn’s, Chigwell, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’, Harrow, John Lyon, North London Collegiate, Mill Hill and St Dunstan’s College, each offering departmental support, CPD, expertise and shared student experiences.
- Providing first-class support into top class higher education and employment, focused on academically ambitious young people
- Housed in a stunning new state of the art school building linked to the Tottenham Hotspur stadium
- Sunday Times ‘State 6th Form College of the Year 2020-21
- Rated outstanding by OFSTED
LAE Tottenham offers a range of benefits to all directly-employed members of staff, including free breakfast and lunch and access to Benenden Health private healthcare.
We particularly welcome applications from candidates representative of the range of backgrounds of our diverse student body.
LAE Tottenham is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Please note that this role is ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore, if shortlisted, you will be required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
The closing date is 3rd January 2025. Interviews are scheduled to take place 10th January 2025.
(LAET will invite strong candidates to interview as applications come in throughout the designated advertisement period).
