Student Wellbeing Advisor

Queen Mary University of London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 4,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

30 days leave per year

Season ticket loan

Development opportunities

Flexible working

Job summary

Queen Mary University of London invites applications for a Student Wellbeing Advisor. The role focuses on early identification of mental health needs, guiding students to appropriate services, and delivering wellbeing sessions.

You will triage referrals, support crisis intervention and contribute to campaigns and training within a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will hold a degree or equivalent experience, with a background in psychology, wellbeing or mental health support.

Qualifications

• Experience providing guidance and support to individuals or groups.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills in a complex university setting.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams and manage competing priorities.
• Proficiency with IT systems and digital platforms.

Responsibilities

• Act as first point of contact for students with mental health difficulties.
• Provide wellbeing guidance and one-to-one wellbeing sessions.
• Triages mental health and counselling referrals and supports crisis intervention.
• Contribute to wellbeing campaigns, staff training and service development projects.

Skills

Excellent communication

Organisational skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree level or equivalent experience

Job description

Student Wellbeing Advisor

Opportunity ID

10959

Faculty

Professional Services

Location

QM London

Contract Type

Permanent

Working Patterns

Full Time, Hybrid Working

Full Time Equivalent (FTE)

1.00

Working Hours (Per Week)

35.00

Salary Range

£40,015 - £46,618 per annum

Contact Details

Juliet Richards, Mental Health Manager
[e-mail]

About the Role

The Student Wellbeing Adviser acts as a first point of contact for students experiencing mental health difficulties, providing guidance, wellbeing support and ensuring students are connected to the most appropriate internal or external services. The role involves triaging mental health and counselling referrals, delivering one-to-one wellbeing sessions, supporting students to develop coping strategies, responding to concerns and assisting with crisis intervention. The post also contributes to wellbeing campaigns, staff training, service development projects, partnership working across the university and maintaining accurate records and reporting processes. Overall, it is a varied role combining direct student support, mental health triage, project work, stakeholder collaboration and administration.

About You

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level or have equivalent experience, with a background in areas such as psychology, wellbeing or mental health support, and will ideally have completed, or be willing to complete, Mental Health First Aid training. They will have experience working in a wellbeing, mental health or student support setting, providing guidance to individuals experiencing mental health difficulties, working within multidisciplinary teams and managing competing priorities in a busy environment. The role requires excellent communication, organisational, problem-solving and teamwork skills, alongside confidence using IT systems and digital platforms. Candidates should also possess knowledge of student mental health and wellbeing issues, higher education support services, NHS mental health referral pathways and key legislation relevant to student support, including the Equality Act, Mental Health Act and GDPR.

About the Department

The Advice and Counselling Service is a multidisciplinary student support service offering counselling, mental health support, psychiatry clinics, welfare advice, financial advice and immigration advice and a sexual assault and harassment adviser (SAHA). Alongside the Disability and Dyslexia Service and the Student Life team, it makes up one third of the student wellbeing division within the Student Experience directorate. This role sits within the mental health team.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we've fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it's simply 'the right thing to do' but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days' leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary's commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

Closing Date

21/09/2026, 23:55