Head of Mental Health and Counselling

About the Role

This post will lead our existing Mental Health, Student Wellbeing and Counselling teams to ensure that Queen Mary students can receive the best possible emotional support whilst they are studying with us. As part of this role the post holder will review whether the current configuration of mental health support in our Student Experience Directorate works as effectively as it could do.

The successful candidate will support the Director of Wellbeing Services with the work required by the University Mental Health Charter and other strategic work relating to student wellbeing.

This post is a fixed term appointment for 18 months, with an expected start date of 4th January 2027.

About You

You will have experience of leading and developing student mental health, counselling or comparable wellbeing/support services in higher education or a similarly complex setting. The successful candidate will have a recognised professional qualification and current registration/accreditation in a relevant mental health, counselling, psychotherapy, psychology allied field, or equivalent profession.

You will have a demonstrable record of delivering change within a multi-disciplinary team, ideally within a Higher Education setting. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to be a credible source of guidance and support to academic and professional service colleagues were necessary.

About the Department

Student Wellbeing forms part of the Student Experience directorate alongside Careers and Enterprise, Library Services, and Registry Services. It comprises three teams: the Advice and Counselling Service, (where this post is based); the Disability and Dyslexia Service; and the Student Life 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.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

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, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

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.

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