Student Experience staff are your first point of contact if you need help or information regarding full-time courses, personal issues, money matters including fees and financial worries, finding employment and university applications to name a few areas.
Located in the Salt Building , open:
In our Student Experience Team there is:
Head of Student Experience
Student Wellbeing and Safeguarding Officer – Offers confidential one-to-one support for students with personal concerns and issues at College.
Specialist Personal/Careers Advisor – On hand to provide one-to-one support for students and assist with careers advice and guidance.
Student Experience Administration Team – Provides support with student enquiries, including; student finance, bursary, free college meals, financial support for childcare, UCAS applications, Local Authority provided transport and other day to day related student enquiries.
Skills House Personal Advisor - Offers independent careers advice, including further study and employment options, and is based in the office for 2 days per week.
Contact Student Experience on 01274 327281 or email studentexperience@shipley.ac.uk
Many of you will be sitting exams during your time at college, whether that be GCSE maths and English retakes or your vocational course exams.
We realise this can be a pressured, anxious, and sometimes stressful time for you. These are very normal and usual feelings given the circumstances.
Sometimes though, we need a little extra help to cope with these feelings.
Contained within this email are links to some websites that provide useful and practical tips on how to manage your stress effectively.
If you would like to speak about your worries to someone in person, come to student experience, or message us, there is help available from the pastoral support team: tphillips@shipley.ac.uk or jwilde@shipley.ac.uk
MindShift CBT is a free self-help anxiety relief app that helps you reduce worry, stress, and panic by following evidence-based strategies. www.anxietycanada.com/resources/mindshift-cbt/
WorryTree - aims to help you take control of worry wherever you are. www.worry-tree.com/
Catch It is a joint project between the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, to help users better understand their moods through use of an ongoing diary. www.liverpool.ac.uk/it/app-directory/catch-it/
My Possible Self A holistic approach to mental health
Managing anxiety, tackling depression, easing stress and improving sleep can help you enjoy doing more of the things you love. www.mypossibleself.com/
Stay Alive - pocket suicide prevention resource. stayalive.prevent-suicide.org.uk/
Conquer anxiety with EQuoo, your evidence- based game that combines the best of mental health and play for free. https://psycapps.com/equoo/
distrACT - Free NHS App - that gives you easy, quick and discreet access to information and advice regarding self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Content created by doctors and experts in this field. https://www.expertselfcare.com/distract/
Couch to 5K - The "Couch to 5K" (also known as C25K) is a popular app-based training program designed to help individuals go from being sedentary to running a 5 kilometer (3.1 mile) distance in 9 weeks.
BRADFORD and CRAVEN NHS TALKING THERAPIES
A free and confidential NHS service for people aged 16 and over who are registered with a GP in Bradford, Airedale, Wharfdale or Craven.
You can self-refer: https://www.bdctalkingtherapies.nhs.uk/
or over the phone 01274 221234
YOUTH IN MIND - Mental Health support for young people in the Bradford and Craven Districts. Self-referral form - https://www.mindinbradford.org.uk/support-for-you/youth-in-mind/get-support-for-myself/
Useful Information and Contact Numbers
NHS direct - 111
Mind - 01274730815
Young Minds - 02070895050
The Cellar Trust - 01274 586 474
Invictus Wellbeing - 01422 730015
Step2 - 01274 683118
Locala - 0303 330 9500 or 0300 304 5555
Bradford Nightstop - 01274 776888
Centre Point - 0808 800 0661
Bradford Housing Options - 01274 435 999
Salvation Army - 01274 397211
Bradford Central Foodbank - 01274 734314
Citizens Advice - 0800 144 8848
Police emergency - 999
Bradford Staying Put - 0800 280 0999
Karma Nirvana - 0800 5999 247
ManKind - (Male DV Help) - 0808 800 1170
TP & CH April 2024