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Mental Health Advisor
Student Services
2 posts – 2 x 0.69 FTE, Full time for 36 weeks per year
We are currently advertising for two new Mental Health Adviser to work within our Mental health Support Team. Come and be part of a professional and passionate team committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive educational experience for our students.
This is an exciting role based in the Mental Wellbeing Team within Student Wellbeing and Inclusivity at Loughborough University.
Mental Health Advisers support students presenting with ongoing mental health difficulties. The team seek to address equality issues relating to barriers associated with mental health and disability; provide ongoing specialist mentoring support via the DSA process, manage cases of complex presentation and risk, liaise with internal and external stakeholders, advocate for students and provide ad-hoc training as required. This is a busy, demanding and rewarding role.
Reporting to the Mental Health Support Team Practice Lead, this role is an exciting opportunity to shape support for students with mental health difficulties. The main areas of the role are:
We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minority Ethnic groups who are currently under-represented within Loughborough University at grade 6 within professional services.
The two posts are for 0.69 FTE, 36 weeks per year, hours to be agreed.
For informal enquiries, please contact James Stewart, Mental Health Support Team Practice Lead j.i.stewart@lboro.ac.uk
The closing date for receipt of applications is Midnight 8th October 2025.
Interviews will be held on 22nd, 23rd and 24th October.
Please note the interviews are in-person and not online.
This post is subject to a satisfactory to the organisation Disclosure and Barring Check
For more information refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.