Social Emotional Mental Health (SEMH)

Social Emotional Mental Health (SEMH)


SEMH Team

 

We are part of a service for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) across the Bradford district.

As a team of Specialist Teachers and Practitioners we work within the Social, Communication, Interaction, & Learning Team (SCIL Team) alongside the other specialist areas of Communication and Interaction (including Autism), Cognition &   Learning and Early Years.  For full details of our offer, please visit  About SCIL Team 

Our offer focuses on equipping mainstream schools/settings to identify and effectively support children and young people with Special Education Needs and Disabilities through high quality teaching, reasonable adjustments and additional provision. The offer includes SEND Specialist SupportSupport for Individual Children and Training.    

 

Below is a collection of useful sites:

Mental Health : https://www.mindinbradford.org.uk/ - links to Brathay Trust for counselling.

https://www.bdct.nhs.uk/services/mental-health-support-team/

YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People | YoungMinds

Children’s community support team: https://www.skills4bradford.co.uk/Page/33292

Bereavement: https://www.winstonswish.org/

Nurture UK: https://www.nurtureuk.org

 

Our Training:

We offer scheduled training, bespoke training and consultancy work on request. 

To book please go to Skills4Bradford via this link: Training & Events | Skills 4 Bradford

Bespoke training requests please go to Skills4Bradford via this link: Courses & Training | Skills 4 Bradford

 

 Bradford Nurture Network (run by David Chadwick)

  • Bradford’s Nurture Network is for schools and settings wishing to develop their Nurturing practice. The aim is to provide a platform for staff to share how they embed principles into practice to support vulnerable children who may have experienced early life trauma and may find it difficult to settle to learn.
  • The Network will be conducted virtually over MS Teams, once per half term in a late afternoon session between 3.30pm and 4.30pm. The networks are free of charge and are aimed at settings who are interested in any aspect of Nurture, including the 6 Principles, or who are thinking of setting up a classic Nurture Group.

 

SEMH Year 6 Transition Offer

If a young person is already open to a Specialist Teacher in year 6 and receiving individual work to support their needs in their final year in the primary phase, we offer the following to the receiving Bradford mainstream secondary school to take place in the Autumn Term:

  • A visit to look at provision
  • A review meeting

If the secondary school requires further support for the individual they would follow the usual process of having a conversation in the first instance with their SCILT link teacher.

 

Help sheets and resources:

Help sheet: de-escalation

Staged De-escalation support.

An example of a de-escalation support form.

 

Help sheet: Emotional Development

Stages of Emotional Development table - landscape

Stages of Emotional Development table: portrait

 

 

Sensory profile: primary

Sensory profile: secondary

Plan for STARR

An ABCD sheet

 

 

 

 


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