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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Grade UE06:
£32,982 - £38,205 plus 5% premium band uplift due to working hours rota and an on-call payment

Corporate Services Group / Accommodation, Catering & Events / Residence Life

Contract type:
Full time (
35 hours per week)
**Open-Ended (permanent)

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:

  • A competitive salary of £32,982
  • £38,205 plus 5% premium band.
  • An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
  • To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
  • Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, familyfriendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our
    staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion


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.


Prior to any employment commencing with the University 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)

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