Mental Health Advisor/Team Leader

Location: All NTU Campuses

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and appropriately qualified and experienced Mental Health Advisor/Team Leader to work within Student Support Services at Nottingham Trent University (NTU).

Student Support Services make an important contribution to the NTU student experience, providing a range of specialist and professional services for students across three University sites.

This role will manage a team of mental health advisers delivering DSA mentoring, coordinating the caseloads and the development of the team, the assessment of student support needs and the delivery of support, to meet both quality and audit standards. The team leader will act as a point of contact for the service for students, academics and secondary care teams.

You will also be required to provide mentoring to a caseload of students, so we require you to have substantial experience of providing support to people with mental health difficulties. The focus of this role is to remove barriers to student retention, progression and successful study. You will have relevant experience in a Further Education, Higher Education or other institutional setting. You will work within the Disabled Students Allowances Framework for the Specialist Mentor: Mental Health role.

The successful candidate will need to meet the criteria for the role of Specialist Mentor - Mental Health Difficulties (MH), please see below link for further details: nmh_mandatory_qualifications_and_professional_body_membership_requirements.pdf

You will be a team player with a pragmatic and flexible approach, excellent interpersonal, administrative and organisational skills and an ability to prioritise your own workload and manage your team resource to meet the needs of the service.

You will be a strong communicator as the role requires liaison with staff in academic schools, Student Support Services, other university services, as well as with external agencies.

The postholder will be hybrid working but will be required to travel to and work across all three University sites when needed.

For more details, please take a look at the role profile. We'll still consider applications even if you don't meet every single one of the requirements, so don't be put off if you don't match them perfectly. To ensure the diverse needs of our team are met we actively encourage secondments and offer flexible part-time working patterns - we're focused on finding the right person for the role.

For any informal queries about the role or the Student Services team, please contact Ruth Cottam (Disability & Inclusion Services Manger) at ruth.cottam@ntu.ac.uk.

Closing date: 05/03/2025

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