Specialist Mental Health Mentor Part-time

Specialist Mental Health Mentor

As a Specialist Mental Health Mentor, you'll provide support to students with mental health conditions. Specialist Mentors work to help students achieve their full potential at university while also mitigating the impact their mental health condition might have on them.

You'll provide tailored, one-to-one support to help students address the barriers to participating in their education. This support is primarily provided for students with long term (12 months or more) mental-health conditions or autism spectrum disorders.

If you have any queries about the role, please contact Urvashi Odedra at: u.odedra@ucl.ac.uk

This is a part time role for 0.6 FTE. A full job description is attached to this advert.

To do this job you'll need strong awareness and understanding of legislation relating specifically to mental health. You'll have experience of working within higher education and/or an understanding of the support available to students within higher education, together with previous experience of working with adults and/or young people.

You should have demonstrable experience of working flexibly whilst maintaining professional boundaries, and must be adept at managing a large and demanding workload in a busy environment.

Please read our job description carefully, paying particular attention to the Essential and Desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan • Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; people with disabilities; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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