Wellbeing Practitioner - Mental Health (22.5 hours)

Job Description

Student Wellbeing is a multi‑disciplinary team of mental health practitioners, counsellors, specialist mentors, school‑based practitioner, and wellbeing officers. Our purpose is to reduce barriers to learning by promoting positive wellbeing and by facilitating access to appropriate support where needed for our students. Our work is underpinned by the principles of the University Mental Health Charter and we have a key role in developing a whole university approach to mental health.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with students and others involved in their support to address the impact on functioning of mental ill health, assess and mitigate risk, and facilitate access to longer term support, where needed.
• Respond to any urgent concerns about students during duty cover and advise colleagues across the wider university in relation to student mental health.
• Deliver a range of short‑term (up to 4 sessions) psychosocial approaches that are based on individual needs, evidence, and outcome measurement.
• Co‑ordinate support across multi‑disciplinary teams and external services.

Qualifications

• Substantial post‑registration experience in assessing mental health needs, risk assessment and mitigation, dealing with urgent situations, and co‑ordinating support across multi‑disciplinary teams and external services.
• Experience working with people who have a wide range of difficulties, including complex or long‑standing mental health problems.
• Current professional qualification in the field of mental health care and registration with NMC, HCPC or equivalent professional body.
• Experience in delivering short‑term psychosocial approaches.

Benefits

Working here means you will also have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and more.

Equality and Diversity

We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from black and minority ethnic and disabled candidates as members of these groups are currently under‑represented at this level of post. All appointments will be based on merit.

Additional Information

Closing date: Sunday 21st June 2026 23:59.

This role requires a DBS check (enhanced).

For further information or an informal conversation, contact Samia Azim (Mental Health Team Manager) at StudentWellbeing@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

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