Specialist Mentor - Learning Support (Mental Health Difficulties and/or Autistic Spectrum Conditions)

The Role:

To meet the increasing demand for our first class support we are expanding our team of specialist support consultants. The Amano approach gives:

• Student focussed support.
• Academic support towards goals and aspirations
• Hassle-free arrangements
• Student choice and empowerment
• Flexibility in delivery
• Adaptable support for changing needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide effective support to students in a higher education setting
• Work with individuals who may face barriers to learning due to a variety of mental health and/or autistic spectrum conditions
• Work with your student to identify strategies to help address barriers and to move towards independent learning
• Provide support that is student specific and could include activities such as time management, planning, coping with anxiety and stress situations and prioritising workload
• Work to enhance your student’s autonomy and to monitor the effectiveness of strategies
• Be responsible for organising sessions with your assigned students
• Offer support on campus, in-home, or remotely as agreed with your student
• Be required to complete Amano administration promptly and accurately
• Follow Amano safeguarding, health and safety, lone working, and professional and personal boundaries policies.

Essential Skills and Experience for Specialist Mentor (ASD)

• You will be educated to degree level AND hold a teaching qualification, AND you must have comprehensive training in supporting adults with autism which must include:
• All 5 National Autistic Society (NAS) core autism online training modules (Understanding autism; autism and communication; autism, stress and anxiety; autism: supporting families) OR
• Have attended and completed a NAS tutor-led course: ‘Understanding Autism’ or ‘Introduction to autism and the SPELL framework in Higher Education’ OR
• Holding a Post-Graduate Certificate in Autism/PG Certificate in Asperger’s AND a teaching qualification (minimum level 4).

Essential Skills and Experience for Learning Support (Mental Health)

• Have experience of working with students with disabilities and/or people with mental health or ASC related difficulties
• Be able to assess a student’s needs and with them establish an appropriate Individual Support Plan
• Understand the needs, objectives, and constraints of others.
• Have an understanding of the particular demands of study in higher education
• Be able to clearly assess when a referral or ‘signpost’ to another service is required
• Have the ability to plan, prioritise and organise your own workload
• Have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Have good competency in using mobile IT
• Be proactive in maintaining your CPD.

Mandatory Qualifications for Learning Support (Mental Health)

• You will be educated to degree level and must have membership of (at least) one of the following organisations at the required level:
• Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) - Full member.
• The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) - Accredited membership.
• The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) - Registered Member (MBACP) / Accredited Member (MBACP - Accred)
• British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) - Under a member institution - Practitioners become registrants of the BPC through their membership of one of their member institutions.
• British Psychological Society (BPS) - Chartered Member (CPsychol)/IAPT register/ Graduate Member (MBPsS) AND a PG qualification in Psychology or Mental Health.
• Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) – Accredited (Other UK Professional body) Counsellor/Psychotherapist Member of COSCA
• Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners (FDAP) - National Counsellor Accreditation Certificate (NCAC)
• General Medical Council (GMC) - Psychiatry – Full member or above.
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) - Education and training programmes approved as a route to registration - Arts Therapist/ Occupational Therapist/ Practitioner Psychologist/ Social Worker in England
• Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) - Accredited member
• National Counselling Society (NCS) – Accredited Registrants (MNCS Accred).
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - Mental Health Nurse/ Community Mental Health Nurse / Psychiatric Nurse
• UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) - Full clinical individual member

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application please contact us at AmanoRecruitment@amanotech.com.