Trust Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead - West Midlands Academy Trust

We are delighted to welcome you as a prospective candidate to become WMAT’s first trust mental health and wellbeing lead. As we embark on an exciting journey to establish a new multi-academy trust, your expertise and vision will play a pivotal role in shaping our culture and supporting our mission. We hope that this information pack provides you sufficient insight and information to decide if you have the right qualities, skills and experience to apply for the position.

We wish to appoint a dynamic and highly motivated Mental Health Professional with one of the following professional registrations:

• registered mental health nurse with at least 2 years post qualification experience within child and adolescent mental health
• registered children’s nurse with at least 2 years post qualification experience within child and adolescent mental health
• registered learning disabilities nurse with at least 2 years post qualification experience within child and adolescent mental health
• NHS recognised allied health professional with at least 2 years post qualification experience within child and adolescent mental health including; registered occupational therapist, qualified music therapist, qualified art therapist, qualified drama therapist
• qualified speech and language therapist

In this role, you will lead on mental health and wellbeing strategy across the trust including direct work with
young people and families.

The successful candidate will provide strategic and clinical expertise and advice to school mental health
practitioners, supporting assessment and interventions to staff , pupils and their families.

This role will be crucial in delivering the trust’s ambition to provide the highest quality early help to young
people and our workforce experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges, achieving the benefits of
our collaboration model and mission for ‘achieving more together’.

WMAT is being founded by three high performing secondary schools in Birmingham – Hall Green, Kings
Norton Girls’ and Swanshurst – who expect to transfer into WMAT on 1 January 2025.
The three schools have nearly 500 staff and around 4,000 students.

We each have our own in-school provision for mental health and wellbeing support and this role will grow and develop our provision further, and provide a service which achieves more for each school and their communities. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to lead the establishment of new trust policies, procedures and professional growth.

You will be joining at the beginning of our journey, as we establish, embed and then grow the trust. For the right individual, we believe that this is an extremely exciting lead role. At WMAT, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and empowering environment for both our staff and students. We believe that a strong, jointly created provision for mental health early-help and trust wellbeing resource is essential for delivering the vision and aims of our trust.

At every step, you will be supported by a leadership team full of ambition and optimism, including a Chief Executive and Chief Finance and Operations Officer who are each on secondment from the founding schools. Appropriate externally sourced supervision will be in place from the outset.

WMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to
share this commitment.but this can be earlier if appropriate.

Thank you for considering this opportunity to be a part of something truly transformative.
We look forward to your application and the possibility of welcoming you to our team.

Yours sincerely,

Karen Slater, Headteacher, Hall Green School
Nicola Raggett, Headteacher, Kings Norton Girls' School
Mike Dunn, Headteacher, Swanshurst School

How to apply

For further details and an application form please visit our website or contact recruitment@wmatrust.co.uk.

Applicants requesting an online application form must also submit a signed copy of their application, either at the point of being called for interview or as soon as possible after the closing date.

Please submit all completed applications to recruitment@wmatrust.co.uk.