Additional Scottish Funding Council financial support for the Scottish college sector will allow Forth Valley College to recruit for four new mental health and wellbeing staff.
FVC has received £218,000 to fund a Mental Health Coordinator and three Mental Health Mentors. The recruitment process for these roles has now begun with a view to having the team in place for October.
The new Mental Health Support Team will be based at the Falkirk Campus and will support students across all of the College’s campuses. The new team will deliver this service in a hybrid manner (in-person and online) to align with the delivery of the FVC curriculum.
The Mental Health Mentors will support students on a one to one basis. Their focus will be on students who are experiencing poor mental health and/or have a diagnosed mental health condition. The emphasis of this service will be around supporting students to sustain and achieve at college while developing the personal resilience skills and capacity building to navigate life after college.
FVC are looking for applicants with experience supporting service users with their mental health, the skills to deploy various approaches to supporting students with their mental health and, ideally, an understanding of supporting mental health in an education context.
Anna Vogt, Head of Inclusion and Student Services at FVC, said: “We are so grateful for additional funding provided to us from the Scottish Funding Council to support student mental health and wellbeing. The number of students disclosing mental health conditions and general poor mental health, has increased significantly over recent years and this additional mental health funding will allow us to further enhance our support and we are looking forward to hearing from anyone interested in these new roles.”
Anyone interested in finding out more about the roles being advertised should visit https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/education/forth-valley-college/jobs