Mental Health Development Officer

Job description:

Working Pattern: Full time (35 hours)

We have an exciting opportunity within our Student Mental Health, Counselling, Therapies and Wellbeing Service for an experienced and registered/accredited Mental Health Practitioner. You should be a natural collaborator and have the vital skills and ability to collaborate with a number of key partners. You will be confident holding your authority, with experience in assessing mental health difficulties, including the assessment and management of risk. Ideally, you will have experience of managing staff and have a keen curiosity about wider wellbeing activities.

Student Mental Health Counselling, Therapies and Wellbeing Service is a confidential service for students with ongoing or persistent mental health difficulties. Alongside the Mental Health Development officer already in post, who currently has overall line management responsibility for this team, this post holder will sit alongside the current Mental Health Development officer and other senior clinical roles within the extended management team. It is anticipated that this will include an element of being a key point of contact and supporting with the day-to-day delivery, operation and development of our faculty-based wellbeing advisors. You will play a key role in developing and strengthening our wellbeing offer, ensuring it collaborates with faculties well and is supporting, improving, and complementing our current clinical offer. This will ensure supporting with holding and maintaining clear boundaries between clinical and non-clinical activities as well as ensuring there is a healthy balance between our asset and deficit interventions. In addition to this, you will support and contribute to our clinical offer.

You will utilise your clinical and leadership skills to continue to integrate the wellbeing team into Student Mental Health Counselling, Therapies and Wellbeing Service. Come and join our friendly and dynamic team!

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

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