Mental Health Support Assistant
Listed on 2026-10-12
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Education / Teaching
School Counseling & Student Support, Teacher Assistant/ Paraprofessional, Special Needs / Learning Disabilities
Do you want a career where your work genuinely matters?
Protocol Education is recruiting Mental Health Support Assistants to work across Primary, Secondary and SEND schools supporting pupils with emotional wellbeing and mental health needs.
Every day you'll help children and young people feel understood, supported and empowered to achieve their potential.
What You'll Be DoingWorking alongside teachers, pastoral teams and SEND professionals, you may:
- Support students experiencing anxiety and emotional barriers
- Build positive and trusting relationships
- Encourage engagement with education
- Promote wellbeing and emotional resilience
- Assist with one-to-one intervention sessions
- Support pupils during challenging periods
- Create safe and supportive learning environments
This role offers practical experience for those interested in:
- Clinical Psychology
- Educational Psychology
- Child Psychology
- Counselling
- Mental Health Services
- Social Work
- Teaching
- Psychology Graduates
- Criminology Graduates
- Counselling Graduates
- Health & Social Care Graduates
- Youth Workers
- Support Workers
- Individuals passionate about supporting young people
- Competitive pay rates
- SEND and Mental Health training
- Flexible work opportunities
- Long-term placements available
- Dedicated consultant support
- Career development opportunities
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance 'Keeping Children Safe in Education', this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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