Mental Health & Wellbeing

Student Support Team

The Sixth Form’s student support team is overseen by Mrs Sarah Thomas, Deputy Head of Sixth Form, and consists of experienced counsellors and youth workers who will liaise closely with the Sixth Form Leadership Team and academic tutors, as well as accessing help from a range of outside agencies. This ensures that students can receive all the specialist support that may need during the important Sixth Form years. 

Wellbeing and Mental Health Resources

Along with providing wellbeing and support provision, we encourage students to take responsibility for their own mental fitness. 

Being aware of our own wellbeing and mental health needs is an important skill to develop, allowing strategies and mechanisms to be put in place and used to deal with what life throuws at us. 

To support this, an extensive range of resources are available on our Wellbeing & Support Padlet - this includes:

• Access to 24/7helplines
• Information about mental health support
• Relationship advice
• Coping with exam stress
• Being a Young Carer
• Neurodiversity
• Sleep Health
• Greif and bereavement support
• Sexual health
• LGBTQ+ support
• and much much more. 

To access the Padlet, please click here: Wellbeing & Support Padlet

 

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week our Student Council put togther a video sharing some strageies for dealing with anxiety.

 

Where to Find Help in an Emergency

What do I do in a mental health crisis?

If you feel that you and someone you know is unable to cope and is a risk to themselves or other people seek advice from 111 and dial 2 to get support from mental health teams. If you have an emergency dial 999 to get immediate support.

If you have concerns about your child’s well-being and need advice during the college day, the sixth form has an email address which is checked daily : sixthform@combertonvc.org

 

Self-Referals to Younited

YOUnited is the single point of access to NHS  mental health services. Young people over 13 can submit a self-referral or give consent to parents/carers to complete the referral on their behalf. Once the referral is received by YOUnited a team of professionals will triage the information and allocate to the team best suited to the needs of the child/young person indicated in the referral. This could be one of the partners of YOUnited (CAMHS, Centre33 or Ormiston Families) or the Mental health Support Team in school. The respective team will then offer a first appointment to understand needs further and decide on the best support in a collaborative approach.  YOUnited Self Referral | CPFT NHS Trust . Please note that this is only for mental health services and if you are seeking a neurodevelopmental assessment for Autism or ADHD you will need to follow the guidance here:  YOUnited Neurodevelopmental Help for Families | CPFT NHS Trust