Senior Mental Health Adviser

Job summary

We are looking to appoint 1x Full time, Fixed term, Senior Mental Health Advisor to join our Mental Health Advisory Service (MHAS)Team. The fixed term position is available from January 2027 December 2027.MHAS is a team of Senior Mental Health Advisors & Mental Health Advisors, within the student counselling service.

We are positioned within the Education and Student Success Division and work in partnership with the Student Wellbeing Service, Residential Life, Disability Service and Student Health Service. MHAS works particularly with students with severe and enduring, complex mental health difficulties.

The Mental Health Advisors are a group of highly skilled practitioners who work 1-1 and in groups with students and key functions of the role include triage and assessment, formulations, care planning, brief skills-based interventions, liaison, risk management and risk reduction work with students.

The Student Counselling Service is working hard to create a welcoming, exciting and joyful place to work, meeting the demographic of the student population and offering more diverse and inclusive therapeutic support. As a team we are genuinely passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; it forms a key thread through all the work we do.

We want everyone that joins to be a part of this and to contribute to the friendly and fun community we are creating.

Main duties of the job

The MHAS team supports students with severe and enduring, complex mental health difficulties. As part of the team, you will work using the recovery model (hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy and support) with students and are responsible for case formulations, care planning, risk assessments, and the subsequent risk reduction and stabilisation interventions.

You would be working with awareness of the different needs of the student population such as neurodivergent students, international students etc. Senior Mental Health advisors deliver 1-1 sessions with students, cover MHAS duty function on a rota basis, liaise with internal and external partners, and lead on project work when needed.

As a Senior Mental Health advisor, you will support MHAS staff around complex cases, assist in service risk management, and have a key role in supporting the development of the service. You will also be responsible for attending and contributing to a multi-disciplinary complex case meetings as well as responsibility for case reviews, service capacity management and allocations.

The MHAS Team are part of the wider student counselling service and attend full team meetings, CPD training and peer supervision spaces. Additional individual and group supervision is provided by external supervisors on a monthly basis.

About us

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Person Specification

Qualifications · Essential

Qualification in profession relevant to the post (mental health nurse, mental health occupational therapist, mental health social worker, clinical psychologist or counsellor with experience within mental health) Registration and good professional standing within a relevant professional body which includes a responsibility to maintain professional accreditation through updating skills and knowledge, and which upholds a code of ethics and a complaints procedure Experience of delivering interventions to stabilise mental health and increase functioning Clinical formulation skills and experience Experience in risk formulation and management For the full criteria please view the job description.

Desirable

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).