Wellbeing Lead

1 week ago


Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom University of Leicester Recruitment Team Full time

About the role:


Established in 1948 our counselling service was one of the first for a University in the UK and we have a heritage of pioneering Student Wellbeing.

Our Wellbeing Lead position gives you the chance to empower students to manage and enhance their emotional and psychological health so as to fulfil their academic potential.

There are many challenges associated with the transition to and through university life - it would be your role to help support and equip students through these progressions.


In this role you will assess the needs of students who contact the service and consider the most appropriate option(s) to meet these needs.

This may include offering short term counselling where appropriate or sign post to other resources when suitable, as well as offering a range of psycho-therapeutic interventions to both proactively address known issues and also to effectively meet the needs of students.

In addition, you will support preventative wellbeing programmes, as well as drop ins and groupwork, alongside developing and managing relationship with departments.

The Wellbeing Lead will also have line management responsibilities for the grade 6 staff in the service.

About you:

Being qualified as a Counsellor or Psychotherapist, you have experience of short term psycho-therapeutic modality and assessing and managing risk which may include risk to self or others.

You will be an excellent communicator and understand the issues that impact of students. You will have knowledge of common mental health conditions and be experienced in facilitating psycho-educational groups.

Additional information:

The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people's lives, for 100 years.

When you join us, you'll become part of a community of Citizens of Change, which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world.

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do.

That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local community.


We're committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond.

We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.


Vacancy terms:
Part-time (0.8 FTE), permanent
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