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The School Wellbeing Service (SWS) is a school based early intervention mental health (MH) support service. It is jointly funded by Health, Local Authority and Schools.

Aim

The aim of the service is to work within educational settings to strengthen and improve the emotional and mental health support arrangements for children and young people. This is done using a universal, targeted and specialist offer.

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Outcomes 

  1. School staff will have increased knowledge and confidence in supporting children and young people with emotional and mental health needs.
  2. Children and young people are identified early and supported effectively within school to prevent needs increasing and the requirement for specialist intervention where appropriate
  3. Increasing number of children and young people feel more able to cope with emotional and mental health needs within a school setting

Contacts

Cluster

School Wellbeing Worker

North

Paul McGrath

North East (1)

Louise Huggins

North East (2) 

Nicky Freeborn

East 

Becky Brownlow

West 

Amy Tinson 

South 

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Southbank 

Kathy Jones

 

Any questions or for further information please contact:

Laura McMurray, School Wellbeing Service Team Leader laura.mcmurray@york.gov.uk 

Role of the School Wellbeing Worker (SWW)

The School Wellbeing Workers (SWW) are managed by the Local Authority (LA), clinically supervised by Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and linked to a cluster of schools. Their focus is to work with children and young people (cyp) and school staff around emerging and developing mental health need. The SWW will provide:

Emotional and mental health needs that the service can provide support with:

Schools can request a consultation with their assigned School Wellbeing Worker (SWW) to discuss a student who is presenting with an emerging presenting mental health need such as : 

Schools can also discuss students with neuro-diverse, attachment  and trauma based presentation for advice and guidance 

 

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