Mental Health and Wellbeing Advisor

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum
London Weighting: £4,000 per annum
Employment type: Permanent
Hours per week: 37
Reporting into: Team Leader
Department: Student Experience
This role will be based full time at our Ealing campus.
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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.

This role sits within the broader Student Experience department, dedicated to ensuring an excellent student journey throughout the student lifecycle at Arden, from application and admission through to graduation.

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.

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  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.

• 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

• 30 days holiday + bank holidays on‑top, and even a Christmas closure!
• A generous Aviva pension plan, company contributions starting from 7%
• Simply Health 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

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.

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