Mental Health Adviser

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Mental Health Adviser to join our multidisciplinary team. In this role, you will provide expert advice, guidance, and support to students experiencing diagnosed or suspected mental health difficulties. Working closely with the Senior Mental Health Adviser, Head of Service, and colleagues across the Advice and Counselling Service, you will carry out mental health assessments and deliver short-term, evidence-based interventions to support students’ wellbeing and academic engagement.

This is a key clinical role that contributes directly to the university’s duty of care and our commitment to early intervention and inclusive support.

About You

You will hold a relevant professional qualification (e.g. Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy) and bring substantial clinical experience in providing short-term mental health support within a similar institutional setting. You will be confident in assessing risk, working autonomously within professional boundaries, and delivering mental health interventions tailored to the needs of a diverse student population.

Experience working with young adults and awareness of the mental health challenges specific to higher education contexts will be advantageous.

About the Department

The Advice and Counselling Service is a confidential and inclusive student support service offering a wide range of specialist support, including: counselling and psychological therapy, mental health advice, psychiatry clinics, welfare and financial advice, immigration support, and a dedicated sexual assault and harassment advice team. We work collaboratively across the university to promote student wellbeing, academic progression, and safeguarding.

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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