Join us to ensure every student feels safe, supported and able to achieve their very best.
Working just two days each week (14.8 hours per week), you'll join an experienced multidisciplinary team committed to delivering outstanding support in one of Bristol's highest-performing Sixth Form Colleges. [Actual salary of £10,486 - £11,118]
At Brendan's Sixth Form College, we believe every student deserves to thrive academically, emotionally and personally. With over 1,800 students and an outstanding reputation for student support, inclusion and pastoral care, we're looking for a confident and experienced Student Mental Health & Wellbeing Advisor to join our growing Safeguarding Team.
This is an opportunity to bring your skill-set and become a trusted professional who supports students through some of the most challenging periods of their lives, helping them develop resilience, confidence and the strategies they need to succeed both in College and beyond.
Why join us?
Every day is different.
One moment you could be supporting a student experiencing anxiety or emotional distress, the next delivering wellbeing workshops, developing safety plans, working alongside safeguarding colleagues or collaborating with external agencies to ensure young people receive the right support at the right time.
You'll enjoy a role that combines:
- Meaningful one-to-one student support
- Mental health assessment and early intervention
- Safeguarding practice
- Partnership working with NHS and external professionals
- Staff advice and guidance
- Wellbeing promotion and preventative work
- The opportunity to influence the culture of wellbeing across the whole College
We're looking for someone who...
Thrives when working with young people and understands that sometimes the smallest conversation can make the biggest difference.
You'll bring:
- Prior career experience supporting young people with mental health or wellbeing needs
- Confidence managing sensitive conversations and assessing risk
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Emotional resilience and sound professional judgement
- A collaborative approach to multidisciplinary working
- A commitment to safeguarding and inclusive practice
- A proactive, compassionate and solution-focused mindset.
Whether your background is in education, youth work, health, mental health, social care or a similar field, we'd love to hear from professionals who are passionate about improving outcomes for young people.
What you'll be doing
You'll work alongside our experienced College Nurse, Safeguarding Team and wider pastoral colleagues to:
- Provide individual wellbeing advice, guidance and targeted interventions
- Support students experiencing emotional distress, anxiety and mental health difficulties
- Undertake risk assessments and develop safety plans
- Respond to students presenting in crisis, escalating concerns appropriately
- Promote positive mental health across the College through workshops and awareness campaigns
- Contribute to safeguarding practice and multidisciplinary working
- Help shape an inclusive environment where every student feels supported to achieve their potential.
Why St Brendan's?
At St Brendan's you'll join a College recognised for its strong sense of community, exceptional pastoral support and unwavering commitment to student success.
We offer:
- A welcoming, supportive and values-driven culture
- A highly collaborative Safeguarding Team
- Ongoing professional development and training
- Access to specialist supervision and support
- Excellent pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Free on-site parking
- Outstanding public transport links across Bristol
Most importantly, you'll join colleagues who genuinely care about one another and about the students we serve.
If you're someone who...
- believes every young person deserves to be heard,
- remains calm when others need reassurance,
- enjoys working as part of an ambitious and compassionate team, and
- wants to help shape outstanding student wellbeing provision,
...then we'd love to hear from you.
Not sure you meet all the requirements? Let us decide! Research shows that underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs if they think they may not meet every qualification, when in fact they often do. At St Brendan’s we are underrepresented by men and global majority colleagues and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
We ensure that all hiring decisions are made without regard to age, race, national origin, sex, disability, gender, gender identity, religion, or any other protected characteristics, and treat all applications with the strictest confidence. We’re always open to hearing how we can support flexible working in different ways, including part-time work. Please don’t be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered and we wish you every success in your application.
Important Information for Applicants
- We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
- Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and interviews may be arranged before the advertised closing date.
- The use of generative AI in applications is monitored. Any use of AI to support your application must be declared.
We strive to be representative of the community we serve and know that diverse talent builds a better College and provides an enhanced experience for our students. We’re committed to building an organisation where everyone is welcome, supported and able to thrive.
Equality and diversity are fundamental to our core beliefs and values. That’s why we welcome people from all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, socio-economic classes, religions, disabilities and ages in everything we do.
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives.
The safeguarding of all students is paramount and this approach is embedded into everything we do. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
In line with Keeping Children Safe In Education guidelines and having regard to all relevant guidance, any offer of employment will be subject to a comprehensive checking process including satisfactory references from current and previous employers, DBS Enhanced Disclosure and online searches will also be conducted for successful candidates.
