University of Portsmouth Mh Mentor And/or Spld Study Skills Tutor

**The Role**:
To meet the increasing demand for our first class support we are expanding our team of specialist support consultants.

**The Amano approach gives**:

- Student focussed assistance
- Academic assistance towards goals and aspirations
- Hassle-free arrangements
- Student choice and empowerment
- Flexibility in delivery
- Adaptable support for changing needs.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Provide effective assistance to students in a higher education setting
- Work with students who may face barriers to learning due to a variety of mental health and/or autistic spectrum conditions
- Work with your student to identify strategies to help address barriers and to move towards independent learning
- Provide support that is student specific and could include activities such as time management, planning, coping with anxiety and stress situations and prioritising workload
- Work to enhance your student’s autonomy and to monitor the effectiveness of strategies
- Be responsible for organising sessions with your assigned students
- Offer assistance on campus, in-home, or remotely as agreed with your student
- Be required to complete Amano administration promptly and accurately
- Follow Amano safeguarding, health and safety, lone working, and professional and personal boundaries policies

**Essential Skills and Experience for Learning Support (Mental Health)**
- Have experience of working with students with disabilities and/or people with mental health or ASC related difficulties
- Be able to assess a student’s needs and with them establish an appropriate Individual Support Plan
- Understand the needs, goals, and constraints of others.
- Have comprehension of the particular demands of study in higher education
- Be able to clearly assess when a referral or ‘signpost’ to another service is required
- Have the ability to plan, prioritise and organise your own workload
- Have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Have a good understanding and ability in using mobile IT
- Be proactive in maintaining your CPD.

**Mandatory Qualifications for Learning Support (Mental Health)**

You will be educated to degree level and must have membership of (at least) one of the following organisations at the required level:

- Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) - Full member.
- The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) - Accredited membership.
- The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- Registered Member (MBACP)
- Accredited Member (MBACP - Accred)
- British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) - Under a member institution - Practitioners become registrants of the BPC through their membership of one of their member institutions. They do not have a category for individual membership.
- British Psychological Society (BPS) - Chartered Member (CPsychol)/IAPT register/ Graduate Member (MBPsS) AND a PG qualification in Psychology or Mental Health.
- Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) - Accredited (Other UK Professional body) Counsellor/Psychotherapist Member of COSCA This category of membership requires you to be currently accredited with another recognised UK professional body for counselling and psychotherapy
- Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners (FDAP) - National Counsellor Accreditation Certificate (NCAC)
- General Medical Council (GMC) - Psychiatry - Full member or above.
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) - Education and training programmes approved as a route to registration - Arts Therapist/ Occupational Therapist/ Practitioner Psychologist/ Social Worker in England
- Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) - Accredited member
- National Counselling Society (NCS)
- Accredited Registrants (MNCS Accred).
- Accredited Professional Registrant (MNCS Prof Accred).
- Senior Accredited Registrant status (MNCS Snr Accred).
- NCS Fellowship (FNCS).
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - Mental Health Nurse/ Community Mental Health Nurse / Psychiatric Nurse
- Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)
- Social Care Wales (SCW)
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC)
- UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) - Full clinical individual member
- The University Mental Health Advisers Network (UMHAN) - UMHAN mentor member. (N.B. UMHAN accreditation routes are now closed).
- Association of Christian Counsellors (UK) - Accredited Counsellor

**Essential Skills and Experience for SpLD Study Skills Tutor**
- Have experience of working with students with disabilities and/or people with mental health or ASC related difficulties
- Be able to assess a student’s needs and with them establish an appropriate Individual Support Plan
- Understand the needs, goals, and constraints of others.
- Have comprehension of the particular demands of study in higher education
- Be able to clearly assess when a referral or ‘signpost’ to another service is required
- Have the ability to plan, prioritise and organise your own wo