Wellbeing and Emotional Support Teams in Schools

The Wellbeing and Emotional Support Teams (WEST) in schools service is designed to help children and young people ages 5-18 years access mental health and wellbeing support early on in educational settings.

It's all about ensuring children and young people can get access to the right help as early as possible.

Our mission...

An early intervention service integrated in education settings to promote children and young people’s emotional wellbeing, keeping the child’s voice at the heart.

There are lots of different clinicians and support staff who work in the team who have different expertise, but all work well together. In the team there are:

Education mental health practitioners
Senior practitioners
Clinical leads
Operational leads
Service manager
Support staff

Types of support offered

The team offer short term support delivered by education mental health practitioners (EMHPs) and senior practitioners, using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) methods to help with low mood, wellbeing, anxiety and behavioural difficulties.

CBT is a type of talking therapy that helps people learn handy and effective ways to manage their issues.

These interventions will be delivered either face to face or virtually through 1:1 sessions. Group sessions are also available for children, young people, and their families, or for school staff or parents where a specific topic might be suitable for them only.

EMHPs in schools may hold larger assemblies where they may talk about things like resilience and wellbeing so it can benefit all pupils/students.

Teams will work in partnership in schools, as an additional resource to their existing mental health support, using a whole-system approach to promote resilience and wellbeing, enable earlier intervention, provide appropriate signposting and deliver evidence-based care and interventions. This will help the school to reflect on its current wellbeing mechanisms, highlighting areas which may require action to improve help for all staff, pupils and families.

Referral to other support services

Where more specialist help is required we can refer the young person to another service who can provide the right kind of support they need, and we will continue to work closely with the service throughout their treatment.

What schools does the team work with?

Which Schools we visit

The team work across 95 primary and secondary schools in Herefordshire and Worcestershire listed below:

Wyre Forest

Cookley Sebright Primary School
Franche Community Primary School
Baxter College
Holy Trinity School
Foley Park Primary Academy & Nursery
Heronswood Primary School
Offmore Primary School
St Ambrose Catholic Primary School
St Catherine's CE Primary School
St George's CE Primary School
St John's CE Primary School
St Mary's CE Primary School
St Oswald's CE Primary School
Sutton Park Primary RSA Academy
Wolverley Sebright Primary Academy
King Charles I School & Sixth Form Centre
Wolverley CE Secondary School

Redditch

Ipsley CE RSA Academy
Ridgeway Academy
St Bede's Catholic Middle School Academy
Walkwood CE Middle School
Arrow Vale RSA Academy
Birchensale Middle School
Church Hill Middle School RSA Academy
Kingfisher School
St Augustine's Catholic High School
Trinity High School & Sixth Form Centre
Tudor Grange Academy, Redditch
Woodfield Academy

Herefordshire

Queen Elizabeth High School
Aylestone School
Earl Mortimer College & Sixth Form Centre
John Masefield High School
Herefordshire Pupil Referral Unit
Whitecross High School and Specialist Sports College
Kingstone High School
Lady Hawkins' School
Fairfield High School
Weobley High School
Wigmore High School
John Kyrle High School and Sixth Form Centre
The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School
St Mary's RC High School
The Hereford Academy
Steiner Academy Hereford
Barrs Court School
The Brookfield School
Kington Primary School
Weobley Primary School HR4 8ST
Lord Scudmore
St Peter's Primary School
St Francis Xavier's Primary School
Marlbrook Primary School
Leominster Primary School
Luston Primary School
Riverside Primary School
Kingstone & Thruxton Primary School
St Martin's Primary School
Broadlands Primary School
Withington Primary School
Blackmarston School
Stoke Prior Primary School
St Thomas Cantilupe CofE Primary School
Brampton Abbotts CofE Primary School
Lea CofE Primary School
Bridstow CofE Primary School
Goodrich CofE Primary School

South Worcestershire

Hanley Castle High School & Sixth Form Centre
Pershore High
Tenbury High Ormiston Academy
The Chantry School
Dyson Perrins CE Academy
Prince Henry's High School
The Chase
The De Montfort School
Nunnery Wood Primary School
Stanley Road Primary School
Carnforth School
Cherry Orchard Primary School
Dines Green Community Academy
Cranham Primary School
St Barnabas CE Primary School, Worcester
Cutnall Green CE Primary School
Witton Middle School
Chawson Community First School
Westacre Middle School
Hollymount School
Wychbold First & Nursery School
Perry Wood Primary & Nursery School
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Worcester
Tudor Grange Primary Academy Perdiswell
Westlands First School
Ombersley Endowed First School
Oasis Academy Warndon
St George's Catholic Primary School, Worcester