School Liaison. The school will allocate an appropriately trained, link worker to the named practitioner. This would usually be the school SENCO, Mental Health Lead or other senior leader or if not, someone who reports to them. Most importantly, they must have an understanding of the mental health services available for children/ young people in Ealing and have oversight of which services are already involved with children/young people. The link worker will be the initial point of contact for school staff interested in referring a child/young person to the MHST and they must be able to identify appropriate cases for the MHST using the guidance provided. The link worker will promote the MHST service within the school and will seek out appropriate referrals to discuss with the practitioner. The link worker will meet with the named practitioner once a week to discuss possible referrals anonymously, discuss need and plan support. These meetings may be virtual. The MHST practitioner will also have the opportunity to meet the SENCO on a regular basis. The practitioner will have timely and direct contact with the DSL/Deputy DSL to discuss Safeguarding risk concerns as they arise and to make an agreed joint plan of action, see Section 4 below. Referrals from link workers and school staff will be accepted on completed referral forms and provision of basic information required for the NHS clinical systems. Link workers will seek out parental consent for any direct work to take place (in line with NHS procedures). School staff are asked to give adequate notice for workshops, training or other whole school interventions, to enable practitioners to develop materials for the intervention. Once a referral is deemed appropriate, the link worker will obtain informed consent using the forms provided to the school and then complete the MHST referral form which will be forwarded to a central email address (xxxxxx.xxxx@xxx.xxx). The young person will not be seen or contacted until the referral form and consent forms have been fully completed, received and processed by the team. The school will ensure that clinical and evaluation measures requested will be completed and returned to practitioners when necessary. If schools, do not respond repeatedly to attempted contact by the MHST practitioner or fail to provide appropriate referrals, a senior member of the team will arrange a meeting to problem solve difficulties. If difficulties persist, the team will withdraw from offering support in the sc...
School Liaison. A Police Officer assigned to School Liaison duty shall be compensated at the rate 5% higher than the employee’s base hourly rate of pay.
School Liaison. Special assignments for the position of School Liaison shall be made for a period of two (2) years, but may be terminated at any time by mutual agreement between the parties, or by the Chief of Police. Upon expiration of the two (2) year term, the Chief shall post the assignments for ten (10) calendar days. Any interested Patrol Officers shall indicate in writing their desire to be considered for the position. In the event there are no applicants, or none the Chief finds suitable for the special assignment, the Chief shall have the right to assign a patrol officer of his/her choice. The Chief may also assign any officer previously assigned to the special assignment.
