Students with Mental Health Difficulties

For many students with mental health difficulties, completing a course at college does not present any particular issues, but where it does, our Pastoral Co-ordinator and Counsellor Elaine Mort is available to ensure that appropriate support and safeguards are in place.  This might involve:

• Regular or periodic meetings to monitor how things are going.
• Agreement on how the College might network with others supporting the student (e.g. family, health workers)
• Providing a support worker where particular difficulties might be experienced.
• Plans for situations and pressures which can be avoided or which require a particular approach.
• Agreement on what action will be taken in a crisis or other situation where the student is at risk.
• Agreement on the approach that will be taken if the student is not well enough to attend college or to deal with particular pressures.

Click here to read the Student Mental Health Policy