Senior Mental Health Adviser

Job summary

The Student Counselling Service (SCS), is excited to share that we are expanding our Mental Health Advisory Service (MHAS) provision.We are therefore looking to appoint one full time Senior Mental Health Advisor to join our expanding Mental Health Advisory Team.

This post is full time and is fullybased in person and on site. This posts hours are 9am - 5pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday and 10:30am - 6:30pm on Tuesdays.

Main duties of the job

The MHAS team supports students with severe and enduring, complex mental health difficulties. As part of the team, you will work using the recovery model (hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy and support) with students and are responsible for case formulations, care planning, risk assessments, and the subsequent risk reduction and stablisation interventions. You would be working with awareness of the different needs of the student population such as neurodivergent students, international students etc. Senior Mental Health advisors deliver 1-1 and group sessions with students, liaise with internal and external partners and lead on project work when needed.

As a Senior Mental Health advisor, you will also line manage Mental Health Advisors, support around complex cases, assist in service risk management, liaise with internal and external partners and have a key role in supporting the development of the service. You will also be responsible for attending and contributing to a multi-disciplinary complex case meetings as well as responsibility for case reviews, service capacity management and allocations.

The MHAS Team meet regularly to coordinate complex case work, for team meetings and development and clinical supervision.

About us

MHAS is a team of Senior Mental Health Advisors & Mental Health Advisors, within SCS. We are positioned within the Education and Student Success Division and work in partnership with the Student Wellbeing Service, Residential Life, Disability Service and Student Health Service. MHAS works particularly with students with severe and enduring, complex mental health difficulties. The Mental Health Advisors are a group of highly skilled practitioners who work 1-1 and in groups with students and key functions of the role include triage and assessment, formulations, care planning, brief skills-based interventions, liaison, risk management and risk reduction work with students.

The Student Counselling Service is working hard to create a welcoming, exciting and joyful place to work, meeting the demographic of the student population and offering more diverse and inclusive therapeutic support. As a team we are genuinely passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; it forms a key thread through all the work we do. We want everyone that joins to be a part of this and to contribute to the friendly and fun community we are creating.