Rachael Arkle

The college nurse is here to look after the physical and mental health and wellbeing of students. This involves meeting as many as possible of them before they even start, to get to know them and help them to navigate their fears and to understand where their gaps in life experience are. 

I work closely with the tutorial team and porters, and rely on feedback from house keeping, catering and the library team when staff have noticed that students might need a little extra help. I am also responsible for helping to update policies and feed into workstreams that affect students' wellbeing. 

We are trying to develop a comprehensive wellbeing programme, which also includes input from teams across college, including the gardening, communications, and catering teams. 

I teach weekly yoga classes for students and am always looking for ways to bring good life balancing skills to students whose main goal can be to achieve academic perfection.