Our Mental Health Support Team within schools in St Helens

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Who we are

Our Mental Health Support Team service will provide direct mental health support to 38 primary and secondary schools in St Helens.

The service aims to promote the early detection and prevention of mental health problems across the whole school and strengthen links between schools and mental health services.

The team will provide direct, ongoing support to schools around mental health and wellbeing. This will include:

Providing direct interventions to pupils with mild to moderate mental health conditions, such as anxiety, low mood or behavioural difficulties.
Where young people require specialist support, making onward referrals for pupils to local services, such as child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
Providing training, education and advice to school staff to help them better support their pupils around mental and emotional wellbeing.
Championing mental wellbeing and resilience across the whole school community, providing guidance around issues such as bullying and coping with exam stress.

The service will sit alongside and complement any existing mental health support that schools have access to.

Who is our service for?

The service will eventually provide mental health support to 39 schools in St Helens. We are currently only accepting referrals from Wave 4 Schools and our identified placement schools in Wave 6 but will be rolling the service out to all 39 schools later in the year.

Primary Schools	High Schools
Allanson Street	Cowley International College
Ashurst	De La Salle
Blackbrook St Mary's	Outwood Academy
Bleak Hill	Rainford High
Broad Oak	St Cuthbert's
Carr Mill	St Augustine's
Chapel End
Corpus Christi
Eccleston Mere
Garswood
Grange Valley
Holy Cross
Holy Spirit
Legh Vale
Merton Bank
Parish CoE
Queen’s Park
Rainford Brook Lodge
Rainford CoE
Rectory CoE
Rivington
St Aidan's CoE
St Anne's
St Austin’s
St James' CoE
St John Vianney
St Julie’s
St Mary and St Thomas'
St Peter and St Paul's
St Teresa
St Theresa
St Thomas of Canterbury
St. Bartholomew's

MHST has now implemented a new consultation process therefore we no longer require a referral form to be completed. Please speak with the practitioner allocated to your school or contact the team on 01925 664120. You will be asked to confirm the demographic information for the young person you are referring, and confirm that parental consent has been given.

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Name of Course	Course description	Who is this for/ How to book on	Course duration
Introduction to MHST	An introduction to MHST, who we are, what we offer and the interventions we provide. Guidance around consultation and referral process	Staff.	Half a day course. Can be adapted to twilight session
What is Mental Health? An introduction	To gain knowledge around recognising the signs and symptoms of mental health issues in CYP	Staff	1-1.5 hour
Anxiety Awareness	Classroom presentation covering signs, symptoms, causes and where to get support.	Pupils (primary and secondary) and staff	1-1.5 hour
Transition support	Introduction to Sessions and accompanying materials Tips for managing your child’s transition Signposting for additional support	Pupils (primary and secondary), staff and parent/carer	1-1.5 hour
Exam Stress	To gain an understanding on how to recognise and cope with stress from exams	Pupils (primary and secondary), staff and parent/carer Online workbook available as resource	1-1.5 hour
Emotional regulation	To gain knowledge and understanding around recognising emotional dysregulation and tips on how to manage this.	Pupils (primary and secondary), staff and parent/carers	1-1.5 hour