Do you have experience in providing support for people experiencing distress? Do you feel capable of supporting people a wide range of people at difficult times in their lives?
Leeds Trinity's new Student Mental Health & Wellbeing Service brings together existing provision and is providing a wide range of excellent and innovative support to help students manage psychological, emotional and psychiatric issues whilst at University. We are seeking to recruit an experienced mental health professional to join our very busy and well-respected team. The successful candidate will be professionally trained and experienced in working with a range of mental health needs. An appreciation of the complexity and needs of students in a Higher Education setting would be advantageous.
You will work alongside our Counsellors and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist to support self-referred students seeking support, providing professional, confidential assessment and wellbeing support to those experiencing distress. Using your professional training and drawing on your experience and knowledge in mental health and wellbeing, you will manage a varied and complex caseload of students, providing initial assessments through to delivery of appropriate interventions.
The key responsibilities will encompass supporting Students to manage their immediate distress, establishing whether support from our internal team or referral to an external service would be more appropriate (and supporting the sensitive transition to external support). We would also expect the role to include delivery of educational groups within the service and promotion of the service and mental wellbeing across the University.
You will demonstrate excellent interpersonal, communication and administrative skills and be willing to be flexible to manage your own workload in response to the needs of the service. It is important that the postholder is a positive and committed team player with a willingness to play an active part in all aspects of the service delivery.
We are looking for applicants who can work a minimum of 18 and maximum of 21 hours per week to be agreed with the Student Mental Health & Wellbeing Manager (working days are negotiable). Applicants are advised to detail in their supporting information their availability for work in terms of hours and days of the week.
Employees of the University have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous contributory pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, on-site sport and fitness centre membership, car park permit scheme and Employee Assistance Programme. We also operate a free shuttle bus to Horsforth station and have an externally owned day nursery facility on campus, along with plenty of shopping, leisure and travel discounts available. Our Juice health and wellbeing platform provides the opportunity to engage in a variety of activities and includes high quality health articles relating to current national and University specific initiatives.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for the role.
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday 22nd November 2019
Interviews for this post are expected to take place on Tuesday 10th December 2019
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Toby Chelms (Student Mental Health & Wellbeing Manager) on t.chelms@leedstrinity.ac.uk
If you have any queries about the application process, please email jobs@leedstrinity.ac.uk or call 0113 283 7130.
Leeds Trinity University welcomes applications from all parts of the community and particularly from black and minority ethnic candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented in this area. All appointments will be based on merit.