Specialist Mental Health Mentor

dBs Institute, Plymouth Campus

Freelance £35 per hour

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 Plymouth 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 an advocate or counsellor. 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.

You can download a full job description and person specification on the right of this page under 'attachments.'

About You

Essential qualifications include experience in risk assessment, analyzing needs assessments, safeguarding, and providing interim mental health support. The candidate must also be experienced and qualified to work as a DSA-funded Non-Medical Helper for Mental Health Mentoring, adhering to the mandatory criteria specified in the 2023 DSA guidelines ( DSA mandatory criteria 2023 pages 8 & 9) within a Higher Education setting. Additionally, they should have skills in confidential record-keeping and be aware of GDPR regulations.

Desirable qualifications include experience working with students on creative courses and individuals with special educational needs. Furthermore, experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team is advantageous.

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 Monday 19th August 2024 .