SEHMIT officers (FOI)

​Request

This request is made with regard to all individuals either employed or engaged:

• with the States Employment Board;

• with the Government of Jersey;

• with the Education Department;

• through a recruitment or similar professional agency;

• as an independent consultant;

• as a self-employed individual, operating through either a private limited company or not; and either on a full-time, part-time, seasonal, or contract basis, and who are based within the Social, Emotional, and Mental Health Inclusion Team (SEMHIT) and in a post commensurate with the role that [name redacted] is employed to undertake .

For ease, all of the above will be considered “employed” in the “SEHMIT team” and in the role of “SEMHIT officer”.

Please answer the following questions in full:

A

How many individuals are employed as a SEHMIT officer within the SEMHIT team?

B

What is the average length of service of a SEHMIT officer within the SEMHIT team?

C

How many SEHMIT officers have been employed for less than two years, more than two years but less than five years, and more than five years?

D

What is your turnover rate for SEHMIT officers for 2019, 2018, and 2017?

E

Please list all previous occupations / roles held by SEHMIT officers before they became SEHMIT officers.

F

How many SEHMIT officers hold a degree, or equivalent? Please list all degrees held by all SEHMIT officers?

G

How many SEHMIT officers hold a Masters? Please list all Masters held by all SEHMIT officers?

H

Please confirm how many SEHMIT officers have a PROACT-SCIPr-UK qualification.

I

Please confirm how many SEHMIT officers have a SEN qualification, what in, and at what level.

J

Please provide how many SEHMIT officers have undertaken training in foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (not foetal alcohol syndrome) and when this training took place.

K

How many SEHMIT officers have other professional qualifications related to the work they undertake, and please itemise these qualifications?

L

Please confirm the annual CPD requirement in hours for a SEHMIT officer.

M

Please confirm if the annual CPD requirement for SEHMIT officers was met in 2019, 2018, and 2017, and, if not, please provide, in percentage terms, the shortfall of CPD hours.

N

Please provide your complaints policy and procedure.

O

Please confirm how many complaints have been made against SEHMIT officers - upheld or not - in 2019, 2018, and 2017.

P

Please confirm how SEHMIT officers’ performance and competence is monitored, assessed, and reviewed for continual improvement, internally and independently.

Q

Please provide your new pupil take-on checklist for pupils joining the Nurture Group.

Response

A

7

B

 4.5 years

C

All SEMHIT Officers have been employed by the Government of Jersey for more than five years

D

2017 – 0%

2018 – 0%

2019 – 14.3%

E

The Department have determined that to provide previous occupations / roles held by SEHMIT officers would likely breach the privacy of the individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

F

The Department have determined that to provide details of SEMHIT Officers holding a degree would likely breach the privacy of the individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

G

The Department have determined that to provide details of SEMHIT Officers holding a Masters degree would likely breach the privacy of the individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011has been applied.

H

The PROACT-SCIPr-UK® training was replaced in 2015 by MAYBO. You can find details of the MAYBO programme at the following link:

MAYBO

All SEMHIT Officers are accredited MAYBO trainers and complete annual refresher training.

I

The Department have determined that to provide details of SEMHIT Officers individual SEN qualifications would likely breach the privacy of the individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

J

The Department have determined that to provide details of SEMHIT Officers individual CPD would likely breach the privacy of the individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

K

The Department have determined that to provide details of SEMHIT Officers individual professional qualifications would likely breach the privacy of the individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

L

There are no set number of hours for CPD for SEMHIT Officers. Each member of staff has their own annual development plan. CPD is continual and ongoing.

M

There is no annual CPD requirement for SEHMIT Officers.

N

Our Customer Feedback Policy can be found here:

Customer Feedback Policy

O

2017 – 0

2018 – 0

2019 – <5

The Department have determined that to provide the exact number of complaints could identify an individual and would likely breach the privacy of the individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

P

Annual performance reviews are undertaken to set goals between line manager and each staff member.

Q

A SEMHIT Officer will complete a Boxall Profile with each pupil before they join the Nurture Group, a blank profile can be accessed at the following link:

https://www.nurtureuk.org/introducing-nurture/boxall-profile

Articles Applied

Article 25 Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.