Specialist Mental Health Mentor

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Job Title: Specialist Mental Health Mentor

Location: dBs Institute, Main Reception 2 Mitchell Lane Bristol BS1 6BUs

Department: Higher Education

Reports to: Student Support Manager

Rate: £35 per hour

Hours: Freelance, up to 12 per week

dBs Institute offers a range of courses in Music Composition, Production, Audio Engineering and Film Sound and Music. We are looking to recruit a proactive Mental Health Mentor to join our Bristol team, with relevant experience and qualifications to provide professional and specialist advice and support services to our students. The candidate will provide Disabled Students Allowances Non-Medical Help (NMH) mental health mentoring.

The role

You will provide highly specialist, specifically tailored, one-to-one support which helps students address the barriers to learning created by a particular impairment, in this case, mental health conditions. This could include a range of issues, for example, coping with anxiety and stress situations, how to deal with concentration difficulties, time management, prioritising workload and creating a suitable work-life balance.

You should not act as advocates or counsellors. Your role is to help students recognise the barriers to learning created by their impairment and support them in developing strategies to address these barriers, particularly at times of transition, e.g. when starting at university

or when planning to move on from it. For some students, this support will need to be ongoing while for others it might be gradually phased out or only be required at certain points of their course.

The role is freelance and hours will be dictated by student needs. This role could work alongside a similar role elsewhere that an applicant may already be working in.

About You

Essential:

• Experience in risk assessment, analysis of needs assessments, safeguarding and interim mental health support
• Experienced and qualified to work as a DSA funded Non-Medical Helper Mental Health Mentoring (DSA mandatory criteria 2023 pages 8 & 9) in an HE setting

• Confidential record-keeping and GDPR aware.

Desirable:

• Experience in working with students on creative courses
• Experience of working with people who have special educational needs
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Have an understanding of drug and alcohol misuse

If you are interested in the role, please apply with your CV and cover letter ensuring that you state your qualifications to provide DSA NMH mental health mentoring.

Applications to reach us by 24th November 2024. Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date so we advise you to apply early!