Head of Counselling & Mental Health Wellbeing

This full-time role provides an exciting opportunity to lead our Counselling & Mental Health team and play an important role in the delivery of Royal Holloway's wellbeing and experience offering. The Directorate of Student Life includes a broad range to teams who are core to the student journey:
# Active Lifestyle & Sport
# International & Money Advice
# Multifaith Chaplaincy
# Student Engagement & Insights
# Wellbeing Support & Community Wellbeing
# Hall Life
# Student Conduct
# Counselling & Mental Health
# Disability & Neurodiversity
Reporting to the Director of Student Life, they will contribute to the work of the Directorate taking the management lead for this aspect of our student support following the strategy and aims of the University and demonstrating our University values - being Daring, Innovative, Open and Respectful.
They will be required to lead on the provision of inclusive and accessible support, act as operational and case lead for the team of Counsellors and Mental Health Practitioners always ensuring a high professional standard of student support. They will need to demonstrate experience of working with and providing support to clients from underrepresented groups (including POC and LGBTQ+) and an understanding of the potential barriers to engagement to these groups.
We are also seeking a candidate with a commitment to the ethos of continual service improvement and who will have the confidence to constructively challenge existing practices in response to professional and sector developments, analysis of processes and feedback from students and staff, and modernisation of operations. With this role there is a need for some campus-based working to enable in-person student appointments (based on student preference and need) but there will be some opportunity for working remotely.

In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:
# Generous annual leave entitlement
# Training and Development opportunities
# Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
# Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing
# Free parking
The post is based in Egham, where the University is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London.
This is a fixed term post for 18 months from commencement.