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.

Find out about access statements at NTU.

The Mental Health Mentoring and Access Team 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 email your evidence of a diagnosis to us.

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 January, you may not get your arrangements put in place for the end of year exams.

DSA funded mental health mentoring

As a student with a long term 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 any non-medical helper support you might need.

If you think you might need in-person or technology support, you must apply for DSA if you are eligible, otherwise you will not have access to this support. You will need evidence of a diagnosis to apply for this.

If you have DSA funded support with NTU as your mental health mentoring provider, we can offer specialist mentoring support to remove barriers to study. This support is funded through DSAs and is provided through a mix of internal support and external agency support.

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.

Students with undiagnosed mental health conditions and wellbeing support

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 & 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:

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?

If you need assistance out of hours try:

GP
Walk in centres
111 phone line
Ambulance – phone 999
Nottingham Accident and Emergency Service
Samaritans
Nightline - Nightline is a student-run volunteering organisation that provides a confidential and anonymous point of contact for students at both University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University 365 days a year.

Alternatively click on one of the links below to contact Wellbeing Services via their online forms.