School Liaison. The school will allocate an appropriately trained, link worker to the named practitioner. If possible this should be the school Mental Health Lead or if not, someone who reports to them. This link worker will be the initial point of contact for school staff interested in referring a child to the MHST. 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 (for 30 mins-1 hour) twice a month. One of these meetings will be between the link worker and the named practitioner to discuss possible referrals anonymously. The other meeting will be with the named practitioners and all link workers from their cluster to discuss need and plan support needed across the cluster. These meetings may be virtual. The MHST practitioner will also meet the SENCO on a regular basis. Once a referral is deemed appropriate, the link worker will obtain informed consent from the parent 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 family will not be seen or contacted until the referral form and consent forms have been fully completed, received and processed by the team. Any safeguarding referrals that are needed following information obtained by the MHST practitioner will be done by the school Designated Safeguarding Lead. 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 school until any issues can be resolved. Facilities required: The school will ensure that the practitioner has access to a quiet, private and appropriate therapeutic space within the school to see parents and run groups/workshops. The school will ensure that the practitioner has access to staff room facilities (etc) and can print materials for sessions, groups (etc) for the school within the school.
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.
School Liaison. A Police Officer assigned to School Liaison duty shall be compensated at the rate 5% higher than the employee’s actual base hourly rate of pay. No more than 1 officer shall be assigned to School Liaison duty.
