About This Role
The UWE Bristol Wellbeing Team is part of the wider Student Access and Enabling Service, and we are seeking an enthusiastic Mental Health Practitioner with strong clinical experience to work on a part-time basis of 30 hours a week as a maternity cover position.
As a multidisciplinary team we provide Counselling and Mental Health Support to students and work closely with our internal partner services to provide effective coordination of support, and to empower our students to become ready and able graduates. We are committed to working creatively to support our students and offer a mixture of face-to-face online and telephone options.
About You
You will be an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with a minimum of two years’ experience working within a Mental Health setting.
You will have the ability to manage a busy caseload, work with a high level of risk and complexity managing high pressure and emotive situations with skill and sensitivity using your expertise and initiative to make decisions in difficult situations. Risk assessing and risk management will be essential to this role as will be the need to work collaboratively with other UWE support services and community-based services to ensure safety and continuity of support.
You will provide a solution focussed approach wherever possible and will work alongside students to co-create support plans that enable them to work through psychological difficulties utilising their inner resources.
In addition to your caseload work, we will encourage you to provide input into service development/delivery using your individual experiences to provide training and presentations to colleagues as required and to participate in university-wide projects where necessary.
Where you will be working
UWE Bristol is a campus-based University, with vibrant campus communities that are central to student life.
This role will be predominantly based at our Frenchay Campus however there may be a requirement to work at our Bower Ashton Campus in the south of the city when needed. You will be required to work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
This role is based on campus for all your time.
Why UWE Bristol?
We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in vibrant Bristol , our ambitions are to make a positive difference to our planet, transforming futures through actions and solving real world challenges.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, very generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.
Add your individuality to ours
UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community .
We’re part of a vibrant, multicultural city and welcome talented people from all backgrounds. Diversity is our strength, enhancing creativity, decision‑making, and problem‑solving. Join our supportive community and thrive.
We particularly encourage applications from global majority candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.
As a Disability Confident employer, we encourage applications from disabled or neurodivergent candidates.
Further information
If you have any queries or would like an informal discussion, please contact Neil Biggs on 0117 328 2618 or email: neil.biggs@uwe,ac.uk
Shortlisting is expected to be completed within 2 weeks of the closing date depending on application volumes. We aim to give candidates at least a week's notice to attend interview.
This is a part-time, fixed-term post until 24/08/27, working 30 hours per week.
This post is not available on a job share basis
Salary offers are made in line with the University’s salary assessment guidelines, reflecting your relevant skills and experience in parity with colleagues.
This post requires enhanced DBS clearance.
Right to Work in the UK
If offered a role, you will need to provide valid documentation confirming your right to work in the UK before employment begins. Guidance on acceptable documents is available via the Home Office Right to Work Checklist . Unfortunately, this role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.
Next Steps
We’d love to hear from you - if this role excites you, please complete our application form as soon as possible and tell us how your skills and experience meet the criteria listed in the Person Specification, using clear and relevant examples wherever possible.
We’ll keep you informed of the outcome by email once shortlisting is complete.
