Senior Mental Health Intervention Officer

About the role

This is an exciting time to join the Student Counselling and Mental Health Advice Service at Imperial College! We have been investing heavily in our Service to better support our students through university life. We have grown from a small team to a diverse and multifaceted group of over thirty professionals striving to deliver the best experience possible for our students.

The Senior Student Mental Health Intervention Officer is a new key role within the Student Counselling and Mental Health Advice Service, with responsibility for the day-to-day clinical practice of the Mental Health Intervention Officers. The Student Mental Health Intervention Team assesses, stabilises, refers and signposts, students where there is a concern. These are students who may be struggling emotionally or psychologically and may present a risk to their health and wellbeing, or those around them. You will play a vital role in ensuring we are providing a robust and responsive service to these students.

You will join a strong team of senior clinicians at the service, including three Senior Student Counsellors, a Senior Mental Health Advisor, and a Senior Study Mentor (Mental Health).

What you would be doing

• Line management supervision of Student Mental Health Intervention Officers and supporting their development.
• Managing and monitoring the clinical workflow of the service as well as evaluating and improving service delivery
• Containing and managing risk as necessary, including sharing duty across the working week with other senior practitioners
• Supporting academic and professional colleagues within the university in responding to students in distress
• Providing and developing workshops and training on topics related to mental health

What we are looking for

• An appropriately qualified, registered and experience Mental Health professional with line management experience
• A commitment to and belief in supporting the mental health of students so they can be successful at university
• A flexible and collaborative clinician with a commitment both to high-quality provision and staff well-being
• Ability to manage and contain risk and to support those working with clients in crisis

What we can offer you

• Be part of a senior team leading on change and continual growth of the service.
• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution.
• Sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 38 days off a year)
• Development opportunities both from excellent in-house management and leadership training, as well as a CPD budget, supervision and reflective spaces.

Further information

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

Due to the nature of the role the majority of annual leave will need to be taken outside of term-time.

You may be required to work one evening a week to support late opening at the service.

As this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, at the appropriate level, will be required for the successful candidate. Further information about the DBS disclosure process can be found at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/dbs / or by telephoning 03000 200 190. You may also wish to view the College’s DBS webpage for policy statements on the Recruitment and Employment of Ex-Offenders and the Secure Storage, Use, Retention & Disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure Information.

Available documents

Attached documents are available under links.

• download: Senior Mental Health Intervention Officer - Job description.pdf
• download: Employee Benefits Booklet.pdf