Job Details

Clear Links Support is recruiting for One-to-One Specialist Mentors to support students with disabilities and mental health conditions studying in Leeds.

The role:

You will be working with higher education students to provide strategies to develop their skills in the management of the impact of the condition or impairment on their academic experience. To manage anxiety, to develop concentration skills, time management skills, to prioritise workloads and create schedules of work-life balance. This also includes skills in acquiring, recalling, and retaining information in written and spoken language, and strategies to develop memory, organisation, attention, and numeracy skills.

Applicants must be available to provide in person support at University of Leeds.

Applicants must have a degree and membership of a relevant professional body such as BACP, NCPS, HCPC, BPS, UKCP, COSCA, UMHAN. This is not an exhaustive list, please contact us if you have any questions about relevant membership.

It is desirable that applicants have experience in a similar role within the last five years. Applicants should also have an understanding of the impact of disabilities in the further/higher education context.

By the start of employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996. This post is also subject to satisfactory references as well as other applicable pre-employment checks.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.