Job Description

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Residence Life Senior Wellbeing Adviser

School/Department: Accommodation, Catering & Events - Residence Life

Grade: UE07 - \xc2\xa337,099 - \xc2\xa344,263 + 5% premium band uplift due to working hours rota and an on-call payment

Contract Type - Open - Ended - Full Time - 35 hours per week

Post - 1

We have an exciting opportunity and are looking for a highly experienced, passionate wellbeing professional to join our award-winning Residence Life team.

The Opportunity:

To fulfil a pivotal role in leading on local case management for complex student wellbeing cases. Through direct line management of Residence Life Wellbeing Advisers, the Senior Wellbeing Adviser provides wellbeing advice and support to students living in University accommodation including partaking in an on-call, out of hours\' crisis intervention rota as part of the Residence Intervention Team (RIT).

The Residence Life Senior Wellbeing Adviser will manage a caseload of escalated individual support cases (liaising or escalating to other specialist services and departments within the University as required) and provide a proactive outreach service to students and staff as part of a wider student support ecosystem at the University.

Additionally proposing and implementing improvements in a continually and rapidly changing environment will be key to the role, as will monitoring, evaluating, collection and analysis of data.

This post is crucial to the teaching, learning, health and wellbeing outcomes of our students living in University accommodation and the University\'s Mental Health Strategy Action Plan.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Take ownership of providing and coordinating non-clinical student support intervention and liaise with, or escalate to, University wellbeing and other specialist university services ensuring student queries and cases that negatively impact on health, wellbeing and academic progress are dealt with urgently.
• Ability to provide appropriate wellbeing support to individual students going through complex adverse life situations, follow up any concerns and co-ordinate any required responses, signposting to other School/University services where required.
• Attention to detail, experience of maintaining records, case notes and appropriate reporting following confidentiality and GDPR.
• Proven experience of providing advice, guidance and support in challenging and often changing environments.
• Strong team player with ability to work independently and use initiative when required including on-call out of hours.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits , staff discounts, , flexible working and much more. Access our for further information and use our to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Application Process:

Please upload your CV and an additional supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required, and your motivation for applying for this post.

Interviews are expected to be held within 2 weeks of the closing date. Feedback on applications will only be provided to candidates interviewed.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow\'s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team:

Accommodation, Catering and Events provides catered and self-catered residential accommodation for over 10,000 students, including community and welfare support through its Residence Life service. We also operate 17 cafes and a range of other catering products to students and staff across the University estate. Under our commercial brand, The University of Edinburgh Hospitality and Events Collection, we deliver hotel accommodation options to around 200,000 guests each year plus an extensive selection of conference, catering and event services to over 2,000 events.

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