Principal Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Provide support to individual students by providing specialist guidance in relation to mental health and wellbeing. 2. Keep accurate, timely and confidential records in accordance with current practice within Student Services. 3. The role will be one of several Senior Designated Safeguarding Champions (SDSC) and as such will respond to safeguarding referrals, take ownership of cases and liaise and refer to appropriate external organisations in accordance with University policy and procedures. 4. Maintain positive professional relationships with key University staff and external service providers, including GPs and other NHS practitioners, to ensure a partnership approach to reducing barriers to successful academic progression for individual students. 5. Offer a standardised, comprehensive and robust mental health assessment to all students referred to the service, providing a triage facility to determine the most appropriate intervention, including whether an urgent response is required and where further support would be best offered. 6. To manage the risks to self and others, when there may be no other mental health professional support available.