Director Student Wellbeing

Director of Student Wellbeing - 0.4FTE, Clinical Academic PayScale 

The post holder should have a clinical qualification and strong medical education background in order to be able to support students across the full educational cycle including transition into full time clinical training.  

Purpose and remit of post; 

• Provides strategic leadership to the Student Wellbeing Team 
• Post holder must have a clinical qualification and strong medical education background to support students across the full educational cycle including transition into full time clinical training 
• Responsible for leading on all areas across the Hull York Medical School relating to the support and wellbeing of students. This includes; 
• leadership of processes to support complex student case management 
• development of current and best practise approaches to support interventions 
• expertise in the provision of longitudinal support for students who may experience impact due to disabilities, health, social and personal difficulties 
• provision of guidance and advice in relation to meeting professionally regulated fitness to study and practise requirements, including appropriate support and referral interventions to ensure resulting policies and processes are holistic and student-centred.  
• Ensures close contact and working relationships with host University student welfare offices and student unions, other student support services and associated NHS bodies including Occupational Health advisors.   
• External facing aspect of role, MSC, medical school peers, relevant GMC contacts etc 
• Develops, supports and evaluates effective systems to ensure that:   
• Student experiencing health and mental health problems are monitored and appropriately supported and advised, sharing appropriate information with university support teams and the programme team 
• Where personal, health and/or conduct problems are serious, or pose a threat to the student’s ability to continue on their programme or practice as a clinician, the Director will ensure that the monitoring system has robust referral processes in place to the occupational health department, the Medical School’s Student Fitness to Practise Committee, the GMC and other appropriate bodies 
• Ensures appropriate expertise and guidance is provided to academic progress teams in terms of student wellbeing team input when student’s academic progress is hampered by health, mental health, personal or pastoral needs.  

This is a Clinical Academic post – although please note this will be paid on the University of Hull MEDICAL CLINICAL/ SL/READER pay scale. This only will be applied rather than the higher NHS Consultant or senior academic GP pay scales. 

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Professor Lucy Ambrose, Associate Dean for Education, E: lucy.ambrose@hyms.ac.uk.

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