Ulster University - Signposting to Student Money Support and Wellbeing

About this event and organisation

Student Wellbeing support in Ulster University, is a holistic service providing advice, support and guidance on a range of matters including general wellbeing and mental health, disability support, student money management, budgeting and financial support in the form of hardship funds and financial wellbeing.

Who is leading the session?

Angela Crawford

Learning Outcomes

The session will provide information on how the Ulster University Student Money team offer can help you, as practitioner support service users, identify ways to help support your clients through their advice and guidance. In addition to hardship support, there are other sources of support, on their website including budgeting and money management information, you can access to help you deal with your current financial situation.

Who should attend?

All money guiders and practitioners are welcome to attend this free event. This could include (but not limited to) staff in Northern Ireland who are supporting service users with difficult conversations and anyone offering guidance to improve the financial wellbeing of the users of their service.

Links to the Money Guidance Competency Framework

This event is designed to help you improve your money guidance practice, developing skills, confidence and knowledge around a specific money related area. Everything that the Money Guiders programme offers centres around the Money Guidance Competency Framework - it's there to help you better understand the full breadth and depth of money related issues that fall outside of the regulated financial advice service sector - the things you talk to your customers about.

Technical Domian 1. Knowing your customer Tier 1 and Tier 2.

Foundation Level - Signposting customers: all practitioners – no matter their job role – must be able to elicit simple, information from the customer in order to signpost them to appropriate sources of further support, advice or information.

Before attending this session, you could spend some time considering the challenges you face in your work, specifically when you provide help and guidance to your clients or service users around money issues.

Accessibility

If you have accessibility requirements, please inform us when you register by emailing [email protected] and we will do our best to meet them. Participants should always remember to keep their own client and customer details confidential and not disclose personal information about them.

Keep Up to Date with the Money Guiders Northern Ireland Network

· Contact: [email protected]

· Register with the Money Guiders Northern Ireland Network here

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The Money Guiders Programme

Money Guiders is a programme run by The Money Pensions Service MaPS, which seeks to help money guidance practitioners improve their knowledge, skills and confidence. Everything that the Money Guiders programme offers centres around the Money Guidance Competency Framework - it's there to help you better understand the full breadth and depth of money related issues that fall outside of the regulated financial advice service sector - the things you talk to your customers about