Specialist Mentors (Mental Health) – Sessional contracts

The University of Kent Wellbeing team is looking to recruit to our pool of sessional Specialist Wellbeing Mentors, providing hourly paid support to students. 

Pay band: £29.98 per hour including holiday uplift.

Specialist mentors provide non-medical 1:1 support for students with mental health difficulties/autistic spectrum disorders and/or ADHD.  This includes supporting students to develop; coping with anxiety, time management skills and organising their workloads.   

Our Specialist Mentors need to have in depth knowledge and experience of supporting difficulties around mental health and other related issues and an understanding of the demands of study in HE; and be able to recognise when there is a need to refer to others.

Applicants for the role are required to be educated to degree level or equivalent, have counselling skills and current membership of a professional organisation such as: BACP, UMHAN

The hours for this role are not pre-set and can be agreed with the line manager prior to commencing the role and reviewed each term but we do ask that you work a minimum 6 hours a week during term time.

Expected commencement date: as soon as possible

Location: primarily Canterbury campus

To apply for this post please email CV to: k.a.pitchforth@kent.ac.uk

For further information or job description please email: k.a.pitchforth@kent.ac.uk

Closing date: 17^th December 2024

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