Student Wellbeing Adviser

School/Department:
Student & Academic Services

Work Arrangement:
Full Time (Hybrid)

Contract Type:
Fixed-term

Salary per annum (£): 32,

Closing Date: 08/09/2026

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more. Find out more about our benefits (opens in a new window) and join us to become part of something special.

Join our team as a Wellbeing Adviser to positively impact students' lives through promoting healthy university engagement.

Working within Faculties and reporting into a central team you will provide a key link between faculties and central Student Health, Wellbeing and Support Service.

As a Wellbeing Adviser, you will:

• Proactively identify students or groups of students who may be struggling with university life and studies.
• Offer timely support to ensure students with wellbeing needs gain access to the most appropriate support pathways.
• Refer students to wider student support services where appropriate, enabling students to achieve their academic potential.
• Provide one to one student appointments assessing and supporting wellbeing
• Plan and deliver wellbeing groups, initiatives and activities.
• Offer input to staff on wellbeing matters and contribute to embedding wellbeing into teaching.
• Support mental health promotion activities to proactively support student wellbeing.

To be successful in this role, you will have relevant and significant experience in wellbeing or mental health work. With excellent interpersonal skills, empathy and pragmatism you will maintain boundaries and act with discretion and diplomacy. A good knowledge of student welfare and wellbeing issues and how these may affect students is key. You will have experience in dealing with risk and understanding when to raise risk concerns and the ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively with colleagues across faculties and central teams.

The role represents the opportunity for a motivated wellbeing practitioner to have a significant positive impact on the wellbeing of our students.

• Provide support for student wellbeing, promoting healthy and positive engagement with university life and supporting student retention and attainment. Offering initial appointments and signposting with follow up appointments as needed.
• Use a range of techniques to support students with wellbeing needs to self-manage and encourage positive lifestyle change
• Plan, develop and deliver psycho educational groups and wellbeing programmes for students, designed to promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
• Design and deliver wellbeing initiatives and activities and support mental health promotion events to proactively support student wellbeing.
• Work in collaboration with the mental health and counselling team to triage new referrals
• Proactively identify students or groups of students who may be struggling with University life and studies, using data for example exam results, attendance records, extenuating circumstances forms, offering timely support to ensure students with wellbeing needs gain access to the most appropriate support pathway.
• Signpost students to wider student support services where appropriate, thus enabling students to achieve their academic potential.
• Provide advice and support to staff on wellbeing matters and contribute to embedding wellbeing into teaching.
• Identify and elevate cases where some complexity and/or severity is present for example suicidal thoughts, including signposting to appropriate university services and the mental health guidance and liaison desk where needed.
• Work alongside Faculties and report into the central Mental Health Development Officers
• Provide a key link between faculties and central Student Health, Wellbeing and Support Services.
• Keep records of all…