Mental Health & Bespoke Support
All our students are individuals with their own unique life stories, strengths and challenges.
Our whole school approach is based on an aim of supporting students who may be experiencing trauma, mental health issues, unidentified need and who may have developed coping strategies that have become a barrier to them accessing and enjoying school. We are accredited as an Attachment and Trauma Aware School.
We provide students with daily access to their keyworker who is their champion, someone who believes in them, relates to them positively and uses the PACE framework of playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy (Dan Hughes) whilst also providing appropriate limits and reflection. In addition to their keyworker students have access to other emotionally available adults throughout the school day.
We know that sometimes even with that whole school approach sometimes our students might need a little more support and we tailor that support to their need.
The kind of individual support we offer is:
- SEND intervention sessions
- Preventing NEET targeted intervention sessions
- Emotionally Based School Avoidance support Targeted mental health wellbeing sessions
- Access to an external counsellor
- Safeguarding support Keyworker support
- 1:1 high support session outside of the usual school day
We offer “just in time” support in BASE for when students are not able to manage in a lesson and our wellbeing room when students need more emotional support or have something going on in their lives that makes accessing a classroom more difficult.
Our companion dog Mabel comes into school weekly to visit students.
Trauma informed ways of working have formed a large part of staff training and in key roles we have staff qualified in a range of additional skills and knowledge. This includes
Lead DSL
L5 Diploma. Qualified Trauma and Mental Health Informed Practitioner with TISUK Practitioner Status. Certified Diploma of the Art and Science of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
Behaviour Manager
Senior Mental Health Lead accredited with Leeds Beckett University.
SENCO
BA in Teaching Learning and Mentoring (Hons), Post Graduate Diploma in Specific Learning Difficulties (AMBDA Status), Certified Diploma of the Art and Science of Neuro Linguistic Programming. Level 3 in Speech and Language Support, Safeguarding Level 5SEND HLTA: BTEC Childhood Studies. Mentoring and Counselling Level3Attendance Officer: Trained in safeguarding to DSL level We liaise with other services including Educational Psychology, CAMHS, Fylde and Wyre Integrated CAMHS & CPS (ADHD Services), Neurodevelopmental Pathway Team ADHD North West, School Nursing Team, The Butterfly Project and more.If as a parent or carer you are concerned about your child’s mental health or feel they need more support please do raise that with your child’s keyworker. We work together with you closely and you know your child best of all.