Long-term mental health conditions

There is support at NTU for students who have long term diagnosed mental health conditions and are looking for in-person support and reasonable adjustments to help them access their course.

The Mental Health Mentoring and Access team

The Mental Health Mentoring and Access team support students with long term diagnosed mental health conditions to get support and exam arrangements in place.

Advice sessions

If you have a long term diagnosed mental health condition and want to find out what support is available to you we offer advice sessions throughout term-time.

Our services include:

Support with applying for Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs)
Access statements and exam arrangements
Accessibility
Academic liaison

Please note, these advice sessions are for students with already diagnosed and long term mental health conditions who are looking for support with access arrangements.

Visit our mental health and wellbeing support pages for details about all other support available.

Book an Advice Session here

Access statements and exam arrangements

Your access statement details any reasonable adjustment that we have recommended for you to support your studies and will be shared with your academic school and the exams team at NTU. Visit our webpage about access statements to find out more information.

Your disability officer can set up an access statement for you in an advice session if you have evidence of your diagnosis or referral for a diagnosis. Please book an advice session to set up your access statement and send in your evidence of a diagnosis.

If you do not have, or can not find evidence of your diagnosis, you can use this form to take to the doctors for them to complete.

Please be aware that if we have not had your medical evidence by the end of February, you may not get your arrangements put in place for the end of year exams.

If you already know what works for you, you can create your own Access Statement.

Get an Access Statement

How to get one-to-one regular support during your studies through the Disabled Students' Allowance

It is important to note that support in HE is not like at school or college, you have to apply for in advance through your funding body to ensure this support can be put in place by your university. This is worth doing as we know students with support in place do better at university.

As a student with a diagnosed mental health condition you may be eligible for a Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA). DSAs are intended to cover any extra costs or expense that arise because of your disability while studying, as well as recommending and funding any non-medical helper (person) support you might need.

If you think you might need:

a weekly check in
someone to talk to
support with your assignments,
organisation and time management support

you need to apply for this in advance through DSA, preferably before you start your studies as the application can take a while.

This DSA video will talk you through the application.

If you can't find evidence of your diagnosis, you can you can take this form to your GP and ask them to complete it for you.

Support available through DSA

Specialist mental health mentoring

We work with students on areas such as:

anxiety, depression and other mental health difficulties
concentration and memory difficulties
motivation
organisation and time management.

We can also:

help you explain your needs to your tutor
recommend alternative arrangements for examinations and other assessments
assist you in planning a realistic way to study and formulating plans that structure the approach to the work
advise on maintaining a healthy balance of other elements in life
liaise with Student Financial Services regarding funding issues.

Specialist DSA Funded support at NTU is provided through a mix of internal support and external agency support. Some students will have NTU as a provider and some will have external agency support.

Click here to find out more about DSA and how to apply

Students with undiagnosed mental health conditions

If you feel need some additional support and guidance to help you with personal circumstances you are facing or to support you with concerns you have about your mental health and wellbeing, please complete the support and wellbeing referral form:

Use the Support and Wellbeing referral form

FAQs

What is NTU’s policy on assistance dogs?

NTU is committed to supporting disabled staff and students and making reasonable adjustments to enable engagement with work and study. Disabled staff and students whose access to work and study is facilitated by the use of mobility aids should not be refused entry on the basis of their disability or reliance on mobility OR auxiliary aids. this includes fully trained assistance dogs* as an auxiliary aid to carry out specific tasks to enable an individual to access our services.

*We have a duty of care to all campus users, and to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our whole community. Therefore, given the current absence of a regulatory body of standards, we require all assistance dogs that are brought into our living and learning environment hold registration with Assistance Dogs UK and their affiliated member organisations.

What Parking is available at NTU?

Free Parking

Free parking at NTU is for Blue Badge holders only. There are accessible parking spaces available to blue badge holders on all campuses. All of our accessible parking spaces can be found here on the maps for each campus.

Please contact the car parking team to request accessible parking access for all campuses to be added to your student card.

Parking Permits

Our parking permit scheme ensures the students with the greatest need are able to park on campus. These include:

students who travel to campus from further than NG14
students who live in the greater Nottingham area, but who have a real need to bring their vehicle to campus
students with extenuating circumstances.

There are a limited number of permits which are sold on a first come first served basis from the NTU Online Shop from the first week in September. Parking on any campus is not guaranteed and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

For further information, please contact the relevant NTU parking team:

Mansfield Campus

Parking is free at University Centre at Vision West Notts (VWN) for NTU students. NTU parking is shared with VWN staff and students.

Need help out of hours?

A mental health emergency should be taken as seriously as a physical one. If you feel that you cannot keep yourself safe or there is a significant risk of harm to yourself or others you should seek immediate emergency help.

You should call 999 or go to your nearest A & E Department.

If you are not at immediate risk, but you do need to access help urgently for your mental health, the following services are available:

NHS 111 – Call 111 or use NHS 111 online if you think you need medical help right now
Nottinghamshire Mental Health Crisis Helpline - call free anytime day or night on 0808 196 3779 available to anyone in a mental health crisis in Nottingham / Nottinghamshire
If you are not in Nottingham, you can find your local NHS urgent mental health helpline online
GP (Doctor) - Contact your GP to request an urgent appointment

Helplines (if you want to talk)

Samaritans

Call any time, day or night, to talk about whatever you're going through.

Call: 116 123 (free to call, 24/7)
Email: jo@samaritans.org

Papyrus HOPELINE247

For young people under 35 who are struggling to cope or experiencing thoughts of suicide and those who are concerned about them.

Call: 0800 068 4141 (24/7)
Text: 07860039967
Email: Pat@papyrus-uk.org

Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)

Provides listening services, information and support for anyone who needs to talk, including a web chat.

Call: 0800 58 58 58 (5pm until midnight)

Text-based support

SHOUT

Provides text-based support for anyone who is struggling to cope. To start a conversation, text the word ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 (free to text 24/7) or visit giveusashout.org for more information.

Face to face support

Nottinghamshire Crisis Sanctuaries are open to anyone who is near to, or at crisis point and needs a safe space to talk. Opening times and locations are available online.

Emergency support on campus

The Universities' Security Team are available 24/7 if you have any concerns about your safety, or the safety of another student on campus or have a student emergency out of hours. They can be contacted on 0115 848 2222.

NTU Safe Places are open overnight on our City, Clifton and Brackenhurst campuses. They are available to all students who need support, help or just a little time out.