Mental Health Adviser

About the Role

We are looking to recruit 2x Mental Health Advisers who have significant training and clinical experience to provide advice, guidance, and support to students with diagnosed and suspected mental health difficulties. To offer, in tandem with the Senior Mental Health Adviser and Head of the Service and other staff within Advice and Counselling, mental health assessments and interventions that support students’ mental health.

One of the posts will be offered on a 1-year fixed term basis with the potential for further funding for the role on a permanent basis.

About You

Applicants must have an appropriate clinical qualification such a mental health nursing or occupational therapy, and have significant experience of providing short-term mental health support to individuals within an institutional setting and who are used to working with clients from diverse backgrounds and social groups, and preferably with experience of working with young adults.

About the Department

The Advice and Counselling Service is a multidisciplinary student support service offering counselling and psychological support, mental health advice, psychiatry clinics, welfare advice, financial advice and immigration advice and a sexual assault and harassment Advice team.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as members of the LGBTQA+ community, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic groups, as these groups are underrepresented in these roles at Queen Mary.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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