Student Wellbeing AdvisorUniversity
About the Role
The Student Wellbeing Adviser acts as a first point of contact for students experiencing mental health difficulties, providing guidance, wellbeing support and ensuring students are connected to the most appropriate internal or external services. The role involves triaging mental health and counselling referrals, delivering one-to-one wellbeing sessions, supporting students to develop coping strategies, responding to concerns and assisting with crisis intervention. The post also contributes to wellbeing campaigns, staff training, service development projects, partnership working across the university and maintaining accurate records and reporting processes. Overall, it is a varied role combining direct student support, mental health triage, project work, stakeholder collaboration and administration.
About You
The successful candidate will be educated to degree level or have equivalent experience, with a background in areas such as psychology, wellbeing or mental health support, and will ideally have completed, or be willing to complete, Mental Health First Aid training. They will have experience working in a wellbeing, mental health or student support setting, providing guidance to individuals experiencing mental health difficulties, working within multidisciplinary teams and managing competing priorities in a busy environment. The role requires excellent communication, organisational, problem-solving and teamwork skills, alongside confidence using IT systems and digital platforms. Candidates should also possess knowledge of student mental health and wellbeing issues, higher education support services, NHS mental health referral pathways and key legislation relevant to student support, including the Equality Act, Mental Health Act and GDPR.
About the Department
The Advice and Counselling Service is a multidisciplinary student support service offering counselling, mental health support, psychiatry clinics, welfare advice, financial advice and immigration advice and a sexual assault and harassment adviser (SAHA). Alongside the Disability and Dyslexia Service and the Student Life team, it makes up one third of the student wellbeing division within the Student Experience directorate. This role sits within the mental health team.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.