Mental Health Co-ordinator

About us

UCL’s Student Counselling Services (SCS) are part of Student Support and Wellbeing Services (SSWS). SSWS provides holistic support for all students at UCL, helping them to stay well and perform at the best of their ability. In SCS we undertake psychological assessments of individual students in order to help them identify and solve their problems, to identify clinically significant disorders as appropriate, and to help students determine and pursue the most appropriate treatment plan. We provide high-quality, time-limited individual cognitive behavioural therapy, psychodynamic counselling, psychiatric support and personal development workshops both face-to-face and online via telephone and video. We liaise with and refer to other professionals within and outside SCS as appropriate.

About the role

The postholder will be required to deliver non-therapeutic support services aimed at enabling study, specifically for students with emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties at UCL. They will provide assistance to the daily duty practitioner by making follow up contact with students registering with SCS and presenting with risk, attend SSWS safeguarding meetings, and provide information and advice to students with wellbeing needs registering with SCS. In doing so they’ll need to liaise across the SSWS team and with Disability, Mental Health and Neurodiversity Support Services in particular.

If you have any queries about the role, please contact Sonia Greenidge - Head of Counselling Services - at: [email protected]

If you have any queries about the application process, or you have any reasonable adjustments requests please contact Passant Khalifa - Senior Recruiter - at: [email protected]

About you

The successful candidate will have a relevant professional qualification in the field of mental health, experience of working with students or young adults with a wide range of complex mental health difficulties, and expert knowledge of mental health difficulties. This will be combined with experience of working in an environment which involves managing a large and demanding workload, effective time management and prioritising to meet deadlines.

What we offer

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) pro-rata.
• 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.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/