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Locum Mental Health Advisor
Job Description
The post-holder (0.8 FTE) will be part of the Mental Health Support Team and part of our university's multi-disciplinary Counselling & Mental Health Support Team and will have experience and current accreditation as a Mental Health Nurse or other qualified mental health practitioner.
The post-holder will possess specialist knowledge of issues related to student mental health, including the assessment and management of risk, mental health assessment, crisis management, and external referral of cases (into external crisis services, etc.). The post-holder will liaise with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure the university responds effectively to the mental health needs of students. They will work closely with the other two sub-teams that make up the Counselling & Mental Health Support Team (the Counselling and the Outreach & Training Sub-Teams) to ensure the appropriate referral of cases and an effective multi-disciplinary approach to all aspects of clinical work.
Key responsibilities
To carry out assessments including risk assessment & management for students referred via the Student of Concern process. Although Student of Concern is not a crisis service, a high proportion of referred students indicate that they are at risk to self, and so the post holder will be expected to following service risk protocols and signpost students to appropriate services and escalate any student to crisis services if the need arises.
To work at least four days/week triaging and managing Student of Concern referrals.
To work with colleagues within Counselling and Mental Health Support Team and Student Services to support students with mental health conditions, including linking with internal and external organisations.
To act as an advocate for students in negotiating time out/moving to alternative modes of studies. To be responsible for providing an informed opinion and/or verifying students? mitigating circumstances and to support students in requesting extensions for completing work/providing supporting statements for students in academic appeals.
To keep accurate and up-to-date client case notes ensuring that they are compliant with the data protection act. To maintain therapeutic boundaries at all times.
To comply with relevant legislation and regulations, including, for example, our duty of care, safeguarding legislation, data protection legislation (including the General Data Protection Regulation), equality legislation, and health and safety legislation.
Qualifications
Professional qualification and current regsitration in the field of mental health nursing, psychological wellbeing practitioner or other qualified mental health practitioner
Skills
Knowledge / skills
- Expert knowledge and skills of undertaking mental health and risk assessment and management, including standardized assessment protocols and relevant clinical outcome measures (such as COREnet)
- Expert knowledge of the mental health issues and support needs of students and/or young adults
- Ability to manage relationships sensitively with distressed clients and tolerate and manage high levels of distress and risk
- Excellent IT and administration skills, including administrative self-sufficiency (e.g. diary management, letter writing, etc.)
Experience
- Experience of managing a large complex caseload of clients presenting with a wide range of mental health difficulties
- Experience of referring cases into NHS and voluntary sector bodies, and working closely with such services on complex cases
- Experience of balancing the need to share information appropriately to ensure the effective management of risk with the need for confidentiality and data protection legislation compliance
- Experience of supporting others to maintain effective appropriate boundaries in their work
Personal characteristics/other requirements
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work with multiple processes and systems
- Strong advocate and promoter of equality, diversity and inclusion for students with mental health difficulties
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the issues that students face in Higher Education and the types of support/advice that students require beyond mental health support
- Knowledge of legislation relating to mental health
- Experience of delivering training, presentations and/or group-work
For further information please contact Raquel Jose at raquel.jose@kcl.ac.uk or Anca Alba at anca.alba@kcl.ac.uk
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The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence is returning between Tuesday 20 and Saturday 24 May 2025, with a series of public events, including lectures, workshops and demonstrations, exploring artificial intelligence with researchers from across King's. The festival will take place across multiple venues: the Strand Campus, Science Gallery London, Guys Campus, and the London Institute of Healthcare Engineering.
In order to support with the smooth running of the festival, the KIAI is looking for up to ten event assistants. Event assistants will be responsible for supporting the KIAI team and lead event assistants to register attendees for events, support attendees to navigate King?s, and support event deliverers with any requirements during events. Interviews for the position will be held online on 6th and 7th May (with some flexibility to work around candidates? other commitments).
Successful candidates will ideally be expected to work on at least two days between 20 and 24 May. Hours of work are varied but shifts will take place between the hours of 9am and 9pm each day. Event assistants may be required to attend a compulsory paid briefing/training session before their first shift.
Key responsibilities
Your responsibilities will vary but in general you may be expected to:
- Greet and register attendees to festival events including staffing the registration desks at the entrance to festival venues.
- Support attendees to navigate King?s including finding the correct venues for their events and make use of King?s facilities, including staffing the navigation desk outside the Great Hall.
- Support event organisers to distribute materials at the beginning or during an event and collect these at the end.
- Support with Q&As during events, for e.g. through use of microphones.
- Support attendees to complete evaluation forms at the end of events (if required).
- Report any issues that cannot be resolved immediately to a member of the KIAI team or a Lead Event Assistant.
- For Family Zone event assistants: support families attending the event, signposting to available facilities and assist in managing any queues for demos.
- This list is not exhaustive and event assistants may be asked to undertake reasonable duties in line with the role to ensure the smooth-running of the festival.
Qualifications
N/A
Skills
Essential: experience of supporting events including but not limited to academic seminars, conferences, university open days, and outreach events.
Essential: strong communication skills, and willingness to communicate with the general public.
Essential: excellent organisation and time management skills with the ability to multitask.
Desirable: interest in data science and/or AI OR public engagement opportunities.
Desirable: experience of communicating and/or working with young people (under 18).
Desirable: first aid trained.
Desirable: fire marshall trained.
Desirable: DBS checked.
What is it?
King's Academy serves as the Education ?Think Tank? for the University, working both on strategic priorities for education and to foster a supportive and progressive academic culture across the institution, in partnership with faculties and through our collaborative relationships with staff, students and external partners. This is done through:
- Events, workshops, conferences and awards.
- Consultancy and input into policy development.
- Dedicated support for Faculties.
- Funding for staff and students working on educational projects.
- Supporting staff to gain professional recognition for their teaching practice and/or support of students.
- Major strategic projects e.g. Transforming Assessment for Students at King's (TASK), education for sustainability, inclusive education, student-staff partnerships, AI and Education, curriculum and programme design, and much more.
King's Academy is developing its support in curriculum development across the university. We are taking a student-centred design approach to curriculum development, which puts students? needs, their realities and aspirations at the heart of the design process for new university courses. We are now developing resources to support academics in this process.
Two student interns will support the programme and curriculum design lead at King's Academy in creating resources which illustrate and summarise how students experience their curriculum, what motivates and inspires them and what challenges they face on their learning journey.
We are particularly keen to elevate the needs, voices and aspirations of students who identify as belonging to an historical/currently marginalised and/or unrepresented group in Higher Education.
How to apply
In your cover letter please address the following questions:
- What interests you most about this role? We are keen to hear about your motivations for applying for this role.
Qualifications
- This role is open to current postgraduate taught students at King's.
Skills
- Students who can demonstrate an interest in the development of university curricula and curiosity for how teaching and learning is organised as well as how fellow students experience their learning journey within their own subject and beyond.
The following skills, knowledge and experience will be helpful in this role:
- Knowledge and experience in qualitative data collection and/or user experience projects.
- Communication skills, in particular active listening and oral communication.
- Capacity to work independently as well as part of a team.
I am seeking a highly motivated Research Assistant (RA) with experience in data extraction from Bloomberg, Refinitiv and annual reports, and proficiency in Python and STATA for financial data analysis.
Qualifications
- PhD candidate is required
- Familiarity with financial datasets and empirical research methods is desirable.
- Experience with SAS is desirable.
Skills
- Proficiency in Bloomberg Terminal and Refinitiv data extraction tools.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Ability to work independently and meet research deadlines.
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