Specialist Practitioner

2 days ago


Southampton, United Kingdom University of Southampton Full time

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The University of Southampton is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced individual to join our Wellbeing team as a Specialist Practitioner. The Practitioner will work with a caseload of students to provide advice and support to issues such as emotional wellbeing, mental health difficulties, safeguarding concerns and academic concerns. They will also chair Student Support Review meetings attended by students and other University departments to support students if concerns are raised about their health, wellbeing and behaviour which may be impacting on their academic progress and/or general management of life at University or on placement.

The Wellbeing Practitioner team is part of the Student Wellbeing Service. The service offer includes: a 24/7 Open Door drop-in service, wellbeing workshops, events, a team of wellbeing practitioners, self-help resources and short-term counselling.

Main duties include:

- Manage a case load of students by providing individual one to one support within a short-term support model.
- Duty practitioner for the Open-door service between the core hours of 9 - 5 a minimum of once a week.
- Contribute to risk reviews and risk management strategies.
- Contribute to the management processes of those student cases that present as a concern.
- Reviewing requests for Student Support Review Panels and Chairing these panels.
- Creation of bespoke support plans for the student.
- Engaging across the University with other specialist roles.
- Proficiently using Microsoft Teams to conduct remote online video appointments to meet the students’ needs and use data management systems to manage your caseload of students.
- Contribute to University wide projects with specialist knowledge.
- Actively promote the work of the Wellbeing Team both within the University and the wider local community
- Work collegially with other colleagues to take a multi-disciplinary approach which creates a seamless student experience to support our students.

A standard DBS check is required for this role.

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