Term Time Early Intervention Mental Health Support Workers (P/T)

Team: Early Intervention Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (Fife Wide)

Location: Includem, Unit L, Telford Road, Glenrothes, Fife, KY7 4NX

Hours: Term-time, part time, 30 hours per week, worked over 4 days per week during School Term Times

Contract: Permanent Contract in line with service funding

Salary: £20,634.00 per year

Purpose and Context of Role

To offer a provision of early intervention to support mental health and emotional wellbeing in secondary aged young people. This early intervention service is designed to support the emotional wellbeing of young people within secondary schools and their local communities. The service will focus on young people experiencing anxiety, stress, and difficulties with emotional regulation, offering timely and targeted support before issues escalate.

The Early Intervention Mental Health Support Worker will be responsible for the work with young people aged S1 to S6 who are enrolled in a Fife Secondary School, providing up to five mental health coaching and mentoring sessions.

Within this role, you will work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in schools and other partners to co-facilitate wellbeing groups and provide inputs within assemblies, personal and social education classes, registration and inset days. These inputs will include sessions such as Seasons for Growth, Kitbag, Decider Skills, and Anxiety Management.

You will deliver a mental health drop in, collaboratively with school partners ensuring this drop-in service is tailored to the needs of each school, offering accessible and responsive support for young people.

You will support the development of mental health pupil voice groups such as wellbeing ambassadors and contribute to the implementation of initiatives which challenge the stigma and discrimination of mental health within the school community, such as See Me, See Change.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for responding to individualised needs, providing coaching and mentoring and delivering group support through a range of settings within the school environment. The focus will be on universal level supports and the post holder will develop excellent relationships with partners to ensure a streamlining of support for young people both within school and within the community.

The Early Intervention Mental Health Support Worker will demonstrate leadership and ownership over effective service delivery to young people both within a school setting and outreach within the community. You will also demonstrate a collaborative approach and effective partnership working to deliver high quality support to young people as part of a multi-disciplinary team with schools.

Service Delivery

• To build relationships and provide positive mentoring support to young people using a goal setting approach.
• Identification and recording of support needs in partnership with the young person.
• To work in partnership with existing community resources, organisations and supports to sustain positive change for young people and identify appropriate move on strategies.
• Ability to assess and respond appropriately to situations where young people may be at risk of harm. This may involve escalation and referral to more appropriate services.
• On a planned basis, respond to the young people and generate solutions using professional judgement and decision making which is risk enabled. This may involve escalation and referral to/from more appropriate services.
• Provide the supported engagement of young people with universal and specialist supports, services and activities to improve mental health and emotional wellbeing.

People

• To understand the impact of mental wellbeing and engagement from the young person, so that a range of support can be given.
• To understand the individual’s wellbeing needs, identify any barriers and provide appropriate support.
• To demonstrate professional resilience when providing support with sensitive or challenging issues.
• To understand and manage emotions, recognise and challenge behaviours.
• Celebrate strengths, aims and engender hope maximizing health and wellbeing outcomes.
• To establish mutually trusting, open and non-judgemental relationship with young people.
• Work with education staff to identify young people who require additional support their mental health and wellbeing.
• To develop strong partnerships with the wider stakeholders to support the delivery of includem services.

Additional Information

You will need a full driving license and access to your own car for work purposes.

Qualifications & Experience

This role requires strong, well rounded organisational, interpersonal and communication skills. It will also require the ability to remain calm and rational when faced with challenging situations.

You must be willing to work towards SVQ Level 3/appropriate professional qualifications for SSSC registration.

Experience working with young people or young adults is highly desirable, as is a good understanding of mental health awareness.

• The closing date for applications is 20th March 2026.
• For applicants who are successfully shortlisted a group selection event is scheduled for Friday 27th March 2026.
• If you are successful following the group selection event, provisional individual dates are 7th/8th April 2026.

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