Senior Mental Health Lead Role Description

School: [school name]

Role holder: [role holder]

Where [school name] chooses to identify a senior mental health lead, this role provides strategic oversight of the whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.

Role purpose

The senior mental health lead supports [school name] to make the best use of existing resources and effort to help improve the wellbeing and mental health of pupils, students and staff.

Strategic oversight

The role includes strategic oversight of the whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing. The senior mental health lead considers how existing resources and activity contribute to this approach and supports their effective use across the school.

Role parameters

This role description applies only where a maintained or academy school has chosen to identify a senior mental health lead. It does not by itself establish that the role has been adopted at [school name].