Education and Wellbeing Practitioner

Are you a brilliant tutor, teacher, children’s or education/ learning worker with experience in special education needs and social, emotional, and mental health needs? Do you want to be the person who really makes a difference for amazing young people who need someone who really cares?

This is what our children and parents could soon be saying about you …

‘I feel like some of the darkness has turned to light’.

‘It’s like an egg has been opened up and all the good is coming out…. Life feels like it is on the right track’.

We need you and more importantly, our children and young people need you! Join our lovely charity team as an education and wellbeing practitioner working with children and young people with SEND and mental health needs.

At Love Squared, our children’s mental health charity, we believe education and wellbeing are fundamentally linked, so our education and wellbeing practitioners focus on positively transforming not only educational outcomes, but also young people’s social, emotional and mental health. Through our one to one education and wellbeing placements, you will approach this role looking at issues holistically and will have the opportunity to make a huge difference to the young people we support.

A little bit about Love Squared …

Our vision is a society where imagination, love, and kindness are the everyday words that people associate with child and family services. It is a vision where young people can walk into their futures with joy.
We want to bring love to children and families’ services. We don’t think it’s enough to care a bit,
you have to care a lot if you want to transform outcomes
.

We want to change the national landscape of how children experience the mental health system,
putting kindness at the forefront of every interaction
. Building awareness, starting a movement, hearing the children’s voices and those of their loved ones: we want to transform the experience of those impacted by mental health.

We are on a mission to ensure that no child has to lose out on a world of potential because of mental health.
We don’t have magic wands, but we do believe that every child and family has the right to get services designed and delivered for their individual needs, and with love and imagination. Everyone has a right to have their story remembered and treated with curiosity and sensitivity.

We directly deliver imaginative, and carefully case managed services for children and young people with social, emotional, and mental health needs ( working in the intersectional needs of mental health and SEND). We do this through our work as a specialist non-school part time alternative provision for children with education, health and care plans (where this particular advertised role sits!) and through our Glow services where we provide a number of therapeutic projects such as our children’s listening helpline, Drop the Pressure, online mentoring projects such as Transitions, Game On and Remix, 1:1 counselling and mentoring in schools, and therapeutic mentoring workshops in schools as well as holiday groups in nature, and with cooking and a range of other activities.

We believe that you can’t change outcomes without looking at issues holistically and thoughtfully. For us it’s about long-term change.

As one of our education and wellbeing practitioners on our non school part time alternative provision, you will be part of our amazing team always seeking to make three key differences for our children and young people:

Improved mental health /Reduced social isolation /Increased ability to thrive in education

Love Squared is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We foster a child-focused culture where the welfare of children is paramount. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment and uphold safeguarding best practice as part of their roles.

We are looking for wonderful self-employed/ free lance practitioners based in Bristol able to work on home, community, and school based placements in the Bristol area. You will be providing imaginative and thoughtful tutoring and/or mentoring across a range of subjects, often with a…