Mental Health Practitioner

The Student Mental Health Practitioner works with student services staff and other healthcare professionals to deliver a range of high-quality mental health and wellbeing services within a higher education setting. The role provides rapid triage, informal clinical assessments, and ongoing caseload support to students presenting with emotional and mental health needs, including potentially vulnerable adults.

About Student Services

We are Student Services and are responsible for nurturing wellness, supporting individual needs, helping students in crisis, improving retention, and enabling positive experiences through residential life and extra-curricular activities. Working in partnership across academic schools and professional services, our teams seek to provide a network of support throughout the student journey and aim to optimise student success.

The Student Services directorate is led by the Assistant Chief Operating Officer, Health Gain & Student Experience. Our department incorporates a number of professional and support teams including Student HUB, Student Conduct, Academic Tutoring, Residential Life, Student Disability and Dyslexia, Student Life, Student Money Advice and Rights Team, Student Engagement, Retention and Success and Student Wellbeing.

About You

An enthusiastic and creative individual with in-depth knowledge and experience of mental health especially in the higher education sector, you'll be able to offer assessments and interventions 1:1 as well as be confident in offering workshops and groupwork.

You'll work well in a team and be flexible in your approach to meet the needs of students and the service. You'll be able to assess and manage risk and have an excellent understanding of safeguarding responsibilities.

An accredited Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or an Art/Drama Therapist, you'll also be experienced in managing a full client caseload in a fast-moving university environment.

Benefits

UEL offers a genuinely competitive salary dependent on experience and a range of excellent benefits. The university is committed to driving diversity, inclusion, and a green future, and provides an outstanding work environment and inclusive culture.