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Mental Health Nurses

Mental Health Nurses

The university recognises the importance of providing resources and support for student’s mental health and overall wellbeing.

Within the Wellbeing Service is a small team of Mental Health Nurses who provide specialist assessment and support for student mental health needs. This is to ensure that students with significant mental health needs or those experiencing a mental health crisis, are assisted to gain access to appropriate National Health Service (NHS) care within the local area, or indeed within the home area. This may also involve seeing the Mental Health Nurses on a short-term basis to support in managing your mental health.

The Mental Health Nurses are accessed via referral from one of the wider professionals within Wellbeing. This may be following a Brief Consultation, a therapy appointment, or a Disability appointment. The team may also reach out to you should your NHS care team or hospital contact us.

How can we help?

We should all be mindful of our mental wellbeing and look to ensure we take time to consider our own needs. In times of transition and change, such as starting university, this is even more important, though so easily forgotten amongst all the other competing demands for our time and attention.

New starters

University is often a time when you may wish to ‘move on’ ‘go it alone’ ‘see how things go’ – this is all perfectly natural. However, if you have experienced mental health difficulties and/or have a current diagnosis, it is worth taking some time for you to consider your needs and keep your mental wellbeing a priority.

Seeking support in the early stage helps to maintain your successful and healthy time at university and helps to inform you of the available support should you need it.

Support for significant mental health needs or crisis

Should you start to experience difficulties with your mental health while you are at university or have a relapse of any previous mental health issues, we can support in many ways.

This includes offering assessments of your current needs and short-term interventions (relating to management strategies, wellness planning, managing self-harm, and treatment changes etc.).

About our services

Confidentiality

Our services within Wellbeing Support are confidential, which means that the information you share with us is kept securely and will not be shared with any third parties unless you explicitly wish for us to do so. There are some circumstances, in which staff may have to pass on personal information, including if there is a concern of serious risk/harm, or if we are required to do so by law, but we will discuss this with you and ask for your consent wherever possible.

To ensure you are offered the most appropriate support, there may be times when we request to share information about your individual support needs with internal and external parties. This, for example, maybe your GP, or NHS team. We will ask for your permission to do this. In addition, we may ask you to give consent to your GP or health care providers to liaise with us.

Your information is securely held by Wellbeing and Student Support and will be treated confidentially and appropriately for the purposes of carrying out the ongoing business of Wellbeing Support Services under the terms of the 1998 Data Protection Act and the University’s Data Protection Policy. Records are destroyed following the academic year in which a student finishes their registration with the institution + 6 years.

Additional resources

Who do we work with?

Wellbeing Services are available to all home and international students.

All home students have access to NHS services.

International students also have access to NHS services as prescribed by the health surcharge paid as part of your visa application.

External support

  • GP’s General Practitioners – Key to looking after your overall health during your time at University. The campus surgeryLink opens in a new window offers a range of services.
  • Urgent/Crisis Access for mental health – This is now accessed via calling Tel 111 and for mental health needs Option 2.
  • Accident & Emergency Departments are located at:

UCHW – Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry CV2 2DX

Warwick Hospital - Lakin Road, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 5BW