Mental Health Advice Manager

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: UAL - Various sites, London UK
Salary: £50,961 to £61,398 per annum
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time

Job description

The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join UAL’s growing Counselling and Health Advice Service. We are investing in the management capacity of the team to help us respond to students’ complex needs and to enhance services. 

You will work in partnership with the team’s other Mental Health Advice Manager to co-ordinate health advice services across the University. You will hold a caseload and provide advice and consultancy to colleagues, including responding to complex and urgent situations. Alongside this, you will manage a team of Mental Health Advisers and coordinate service service delivery at half of the University’s colleges.

You will work with the Service management team and other colleagues, leading initiatives to enhance our wellbeing offers.

You will also be part of the duty management team. During term-time, this includes working remotely on Saturday mornings once a month.  

About you

You will have successful experiencing of managing people and services and working collaboratively to achieve objectives within a multidisciplinary team. You will be an experienced and qualified mental health practitioner with experience in community mental health setting(s), who understands the specific needs of university students. You will be able to assess students and have a good working knowledge of brief work approaches and interventions to alleviate mental health symptoms and promote wellbeing.

You will have a flexible and responsive approach and excellent communication skills. You will be able to hold and manage risk within appropriate boundaries.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Closing date: 9 May 2024, 11:55 pm