Mental Health Advisor

University of Leeds - Student Education and Experience - Student Experience and Support

Location: Leeds - Main Campus

Interview date: Friday 5th June 2026

This role will be based on the university campus. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Student Counselling and Wellbeing is part of Student Education and Experience and provides a wide range of excellent and innovative support to help students manage psychological, emotional and mental health difficulties whilst at University. Student Counselling and Wellbeing is a large multi-disciplinary team that supports students through; individual appointments, same day support in partnership with Leeds University Union, a comprehensive groups and psycho-educational workshop programme; a Clinical Consultation and Guidance service (Duty System) for University staff and critical incident response and support.

We are looking for someone with substantial experience of providing support for people with diagnosed or possible emerging serious mental health conditions. If you are able to evidence the capacity to assess, monitor and manage young adults living with mental health difficulties, including crisis response, we would be interested in hearing from you – especially if you have considerable experience of working with adults diagnosed with Neurodevelopmental conditions.

You will be committed to working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, highly experienced and competent in clinical assessment and risk management, and it is essential that you are able to develop quick, robust and collaborative working relationships with both your client and their clinical care team(s).

Essential to this role is effective, responsive liaison with community and university student support services and delivering mental health awareness training sessions to colleagues across the University, and flexibility of working hours which may include evening hours.

Please note that due to Home Office visa requirements, this role may only be suitable for first-time Skilled Worker visa applicants if they are eligible for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/global-talent.

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance.
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Jeanette Youds, Assistant Head of Complex Student Support
Email: J.Youds@leeds.ac.uk