Mental Health and Wellbeing Advisor - Manchester

Mental Health and Wellbeing Advisor – Manchester

Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 per annum

Employment type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Reporting into: Team Leader

Department: Student Experience

Location: Manchester campus

Note: This role sits within Wellbeing Services, a key area of the Student Experience department. Wellbeing Services includes Disability and Accessibility and Mental Health and Wellbeing support for Arden Students.

About Arden University

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

The Opportunity

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Adviser will provide safe, ethical and high-quality wellbeing support to students presenting with a wide range of wellbeing difficulties at Arden. The role involves managing a caseload of students presenting with complex wellbeing and mental health difficulties including high levels of risk and safeguarding concerns as well as liaising with NHS and external services and providing follow-up support.

The role also involves developing and delivering wellbeing workshops and group sessions and developing our online self-serve wellbeing portal.

As a key role within Arden’s Wellbeing Service, the Mental Health and Wellbeing Adviser will play an active part in the development of the service, contributing to new initiatives and ways of working to meet changing needs and demands of students. The adviser will actively promote an open culture around wellbeing within the Arden community by developing and running student-focused wellbeing events, campaigns and activities.

You will work closely with the Mental Health and Wellbeing Team Leader and wider wellbeing team as well as colleagues across professional and academic services.

About You

We are looking for someone who has the following experience:

• A high level of competence in assessing students’ mental health needs, crisis intervention and managing severe emotional difficulties
• Relevant experience in a similar role working within Further or Higher Education or experience as a mental health practitioner in the NHS or similar environment
• Experience supporting individuals with complex mental health difficulties, including managing mental health related risk, safeguarding and serious incident disclosures
• Experience of safeguarding activity with the ability to identify safeguarding concerns and experience of safety planning, safeguarding escalation and appropriate signposting. Experience of managing highly sensitive confidential information effectively
• Ability to work efficiently within a fast-paced environment, whilst ensuring that documentation/records are thorough and accurate
• Strong organisational skills to manage own diary and caseload, make and follow-up on referrals and practical arrangements

Why Arden

At Arden, you will become a part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to removing unnecessary barriers to learning and making education more accessible. Our people work hard to ensure our students journeys are the best they can possibly be, as such we want to reward our people with fantastic benefits. Employees benefit from:

• 30 days holiday + bank holidays on-top, and even a Christmas closure!
• A generous Aviva pension plan, company contributions starting from 7%
• SimplyHealth plan option
• Private Medical Insurance coverage (applies to certain job roles)
• Access to Perkbox benefits
• Study any Arden course for free, with a discount for all family and friends
• Plus, other excellent benefits
• Our ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education

Our Values

Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a growing business, we want to hear from you.

Closing Date: Wednesday 10 September

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the specified closing date should we receive sufficient applications or in order to respond to business needs. In order to avoid missing an opportunity to apply please submit your application as early as possible.

If you are a current Arden student or have an upcoming course with us, you are not eligible to apply for Student Experience roles due to a conflict of interest related to system access.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: Arden University is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. This means that if you have a disability, as defined by the Disability Equality Act 2010, you may be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the role. If you wish to be considered under this scheme, you can indicate via the application form below. By doing so, you are also consenting for this information to be shared with the hiring team. For more details on what qualifies as a disability under the Disability Equality Act 2010, please refer to the guidance here.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon people\’s age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances, and actively welcome applications from all groups.

Sponsorship statement: Some roles may not meet the points requirement for a sponsored Skilled Worker visa under the points-based immigration system. However, we welcome applications from candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK but may be eligible for a visa through an alternative route.

Seniority level: Entry level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Health Care Provider

Industries: Higher Education

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