Student Counsellor (Triage); Student Mental Health Advisor (Triage); Student Mental Health Intervention Officer (Triage)

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-five professionals striving to deliver the best experience possible for our students.

We are now recruiting for three new posts within the Student Counselling and Mental Health Advice Service, to provide a Single Point of Access referral pathway to support students in easily accessing mental health and counselling services at Imperial. You will work as part of a small integrated team triaging referrals in a timely manner, including assessing risk, suitability for the service, and signposting and referring as appropriate. You will also carry a client case load providing assessment and intervention within the Counselling, Mental Health Advice or Mental Health Intervention teams as appropriate.  

What you would be doing

• Respond to, coordinate, manage and monitor crisis situations involving students, assessing risks to themselves or others, signpost and refer to other support services within the university and external agencies
• Make an initial assessment as to suitability for brief counselling, mental health advice, mental health intervention and/or mental health study mentoring as appropriate
• Support academic and non-academic staff in their pastoral role with students and offer guidance and advice to staff working with students with mental health difficulties
• Offer assessment and intervention to individual students as a student counsellor, mental health advisor or mental health intervention officer

What we are looking for

• A qualified & experienced Counsellor or Psychotherapist, Psychologist, Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker with full accreditation
• Competence in working with clients in crisis, with advanced assessment skills
• Experienced in providing advice & support to those with acute & enduring mental health difficulties, and the academic and professional community around them
• A flexible and collaborative clinician with a student-centred approach

What we can offer you

• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution
• Sector-leading salary & remuneration package (including 38 days off a year)
• Development opportunities both from excellent in-house management & leadership training, as well as a CPD budget, supervision and reflective spaces.

Further information

Interviews will be held in person on 12th & 14th August 2025.

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.

Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities mentioned above.

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