Residence Life Wellbeing Advisor - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Residence Life Wellbeing Adviser

Department:
Accommodation, Catering & Events - Residence Life

Grade:
UOE6 (£31,396 - £36, % premium band uplift due to working hours rota and an on-call payment
**Open-Ended, 35 hours per week

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


The Opportunity:


To provide 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).

Residence Life Wellbeing Advisers will manage a caseload of 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 holistic, wider student support ecosystem at the University.


Your skills and attributes for success:

  • Experience of providing appropriate wellbeing support, interventions, de-escalation and safe for now measures to individual
  • Ability to support delivery of nonclinical mental health and wellbeing support and interventions for students through workshops and communications.
  • Attention to detail, experience of maintaining records, case notes and appropriate reporting following confidentiality and GDPR
  • Proven experience of providing advice, guidance and support Strong team player with ability to work independently and use initiative when required including oncall 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 pension scheme
, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more.

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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:

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
right to work webpages **(opens new browser tab).

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.

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