Mental Health Practitioner (CC12130)

Job title Mental Health Practitioner

Department Student Support and Safeguarding

Salary Starting from £37,999, rising to £45,163

Grade Grade 7

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Thursday 10 October 2024

Closing date Thursday 24 October 2024

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference CC12130

Special Conditions A DBS check is required for this position, A variable shift pattern, working 5 days out of 7

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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We are looking to recruit a Mental Health Practitioner to come and work with our Mental Health Service in the Student Support and Safeguarding team.

Working in partnership with other teams and colleagues within the department (particularly our Therapeutic and Wellbeing Services) you'll be contributing to a developing departmental vision of supporting students to enable students to thrive, as individuals, throughout their journey to, through and beyond the University of Bath.

You will be an experienced and creative Mental Health Professional (with professional registration in Social Work, Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy) who can provide structured interventions and support planning for the students who need additional support during their time at University.

We are looking to recruit someone who can:

The Department of Student Support & Safeguarding is a lively and committed team of interconnected services who are working to support and enhance the student experience and are developing sector-leading practices to support both student and staff development. The Mental Health, Therapeutic and Wellbeing Services work in close connection with colleagues in our Disability, Money Advice and Student Retention & Success services to create a holistic response to student needs, and to share our learning experiences across a multi- disciplinary team of dedicated professionals.

This is a full-time role, working 36.5 hours per week including contributing to a collaborative Duty Service (including providing occasional on-campus weekend cover) to manage incoming/urgent situations, and help shape future development of our offer in this area.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Liz Kearton, Deputy Director (Student Mental Health) at [email protected].

A Disclosure Baring Service (DBS) check will be required for this post.

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.