HE Counselling and Mental Health Officer (Ref: LCC2546)

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Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC) and White Rose Academies Trust (WRAT).  Luminate Education Group is one of the fastest improving and most innovative education groups in the country. 

This is a Part Time role of 18.5 Hours per week, Term Time Only

• Recommended days Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (busiest days at University Centre).
• Half day on one of the days, full 9-5 days on the other two days.

Fixed until 17 December 2021

WHAT WE DO 

We are HE Student Support Team for Leeds City College. We offer a wide range of specialist support to HE students including learning, mental health, welfare and progression support. We are looking for someone to join our team as our HE Counselling and Mental Health Officer, to support students with their mental health and wellbeing while they study with us.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

To support student success and retention by delivering high quality mental health and counselling services, including short term supportive interventions, for students experiencing a range of psychological and emotional difficulties. To be able to offer this service remotely (via telephone/video call) in addition as required. To lead on the development of new initiatives and ways of working to meet changing needs of students, including running campaigns and linking with, and developing referral pathways to, external agencies and organisations. To provide guidance to staff on student mental health issues and to design and delivery of mental health training and development courses for staff. To develop specialist resources on mental health and wellbeing for staff and students.

YOUR PROFILE 

Experience of

• offering counselling services remotely (via telephone/video call).
• delivering mental health and wellbeing services or counselling in a college or other educational environment.
• working with people from a wide diversity of cultures and ages.
• planning, developing and delivering innovative and impactful learning resources, campaign material and curriculum material to promote emotional and mental health and wellbeing.
• planning and delivering staff development and training.
• working with internal and external partners to support students and of developing and maintaining relationships with community organisations.

WANT TO FIND OUT MORE?

For more information about the role please contact:

Emma Lockwood  (emma.lockwood@ucleeds.ac.uk)

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LEEDS CITY COLLEGE

Leeds City College is part of the Luminate Education Group, and is one of the UK’s largest FE establishments with around 1,440 employees and over 22,560 students. We offer a curriculum as diverse as our students within a vibrant and multicultural learning environment. Our goal is to deliver excellent and innovative education which supports and inspires every student to achieve their ambitions. 

BENEFITS & REWARDS 

We have a range of excellent benefits and rewards at Leeds City College, including:

• Annual leave entitlement starting from 27 days + 8 bank holidays and up to 5 discretionary college closure days at Christmas

• Excellent pension schemes with the West Yorkshire Pension Fund and the Teachers’ Pension

• Discounted travel cards for those who regularly use public transport across the region with Northern Rail and Metro

• Exceptional learning and development opportunities for all of our staff

SAFEGUARDING 

Luminate Education Group is committed to the safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

All successful applicants are required to complete all mandatory pre-employment checks, including:

• Proof of right to work in the UK

• Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check

• Children’s barred list check (we may also check the adult barred list if the role involves working with vulnerable adults)

• Two professional references 

• Fitness to work, this is conducted by our occupational health partners, NHS Airedale 

• Section 128 check for all staff entering management roles

• Prohibition check for all staff entering teaching related roles

Please Note: All successful applicants who have lived or travelled overseas for three months or more in the past five years will be required to undertake an overseas check as part of the pre-employment checks.

More information on overseas checks can be found on the government website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants 

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK

The UK Government introduced a new points based immigration system on 1 January 2021. You can read about the new immigration routes on the Gov.UK website here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-immigration-system-what-you-need-to-know#visa-application-process 

Many of the new routes require sponsorship from an employer. Luminate Education Group is not a licenced sponsor. We are unable to employ anyone without current, and appropriate right to work in the UK.  

If you are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen and you were resident in the UK on or before 31 December 2020, you have until 30 June 2021 to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme, you can continue to prove your right to work in the UK with your passport and identity card up until 30 June 2021. 

There is no change to immigration and right to work for British and Irish Citizens. 

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community, all candidates will be treated fairly irrespective of race, gender or gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, religion and belief or age.

We cannot accept CVs as part of the application process. 

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every applicant. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. 

INFORMATION FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES 

Luminate Education Group vacancies generate a lot of interest and we receive many calls and emails from recruitment agencies. Although we do appreciate the interest you have shown in Luminate Education Group, our policy is to recruit candidates directly wherever possible. We therefore do not accept any cold calls, speculative emails or CVs from agencies. Speculative emails and CVs will be deleted unread. 

Please apply via the link.