Our Mental Health Support Team within schools in Warrington

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Who we are

Our Mental Health Support Team service will provide direct mental health support to 40 primary and secondary schools in Warrington.

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.

Watch our animation which explains the service below:

The Mental Health Support Team service is currently available for local schools in Warrington (listed below).

The plan is for this nationally-funded service to eventually be rolled-out to other schools and colleges in the borough. This is part of the Government’s plans to transform children and young people’s mental health services through the NHS Long Term Plan.

Primary Schools	Secondary Schools
Alderman Bolton Community Primary	Beamont Collegiate Academy
Beamont Primary	Birchwood High
Birchwood CE Primary	Cardinal Newman Catholic High
Brook Acre Community Primary	Culcheth High
Broomfields Junior School	Kassia Academy
Bruche Primary	Padgate Academy
Burtonwood Community Primary	Penketh High
Christ Church CE Primary	Sir Thomas Boteler CofE High
Cinnamon Brow CE Primary	UTC
Culcheth Primary
Dallam Primary
Green Lane Special School
Locking Stumps Primary
Meadowside Primary
Newchurch Community Primary
Oakwood Avenue Primary
Our Lady’s Catholic Primary
St Alban’s Catholic Primary
St Andrew’s CE Primary
St Augustine’s Catholic Primary
St Barnabas CE Primary
St Bridget’s Catholic Primary
St Elphin’s CofE Voluntary Aided Primary
St Margaret’s C0f E Voluntary Aided Primary
St Paul of the Cross Catholic Primary
St Stephen’s Catholic Primary
Sankey Valley St James CofE Primary
Statham Primary
Warrington St Ann’s CE Primary
Westbrook Old Hall Primary
Woolston Community Primary

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