Wellbeing Services Pathway Lead (Triage and Outreach)

Education and Academic Services

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

This new full-time post is available from April 2025 for a fixed term of 1 year (Maternity Cover).

Summary of the role

Wellbeing Services has been established to provide a range of health promotion events on campus, as well as to develop illness prevention and intervention services. Our vision is to offer accessible and flexible support for the whole range of wellbeing issues that can impact upon student learning. We are looking for enthusiastic staff who can contribute to our vision for Wellbeing Services through leading the Triage and Outreach team, offering comprehensive initial triage appointments to our diverse student community while advancing our targeted University-wide outreach work. We currently seek to offer 140 initial triage appointments per week. Initial Triage Appointments provide space for a student to share their difficulties and create an action plan with a practitioner to move forward.

About You

You will be skilled at identifying wellbeing needs, signposting accordingly, identifying and screening for risk and completing any necessary onward referrals, including liaison with other departments – both internal to Wellbeing Services, the wider University and External services. You will be an experienced practitioner within the wellbeing/welfare field who has a thoughtful and adaptable approach to your work, with a real interest in sensitively supporting students with potentially complex difficulties. You will have a passion for early-intervention and supporting the wider service Outreach work to encourage students to reach out for mental health and wellbeing support. A DBS Check will need to be completed.

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The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information

Please contact Joy Davies, j.l.davies@exeter.ac.uk.  

We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part-time hours or job-sharing arrangements.

This role is subject to a DBS Check.

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