This post is fixed term and full-time working 35 hours per week until November 2026.
The post holder will play a key role in providing specialist wellbeing-related advice and support to students, working closely with colleagues across the University and externally to achieve this.
Reporting to the Student Wellbeing and Inclusion Manager, the wellbeing adviser will develop and provide proactive, early intervention specialist support to students who may experience significant barriers to study due to their personal circumstances. The post holder will play a role in safeguarding and protection of vulnerable students, through direct intervention, signposting or referral to specialist services.
As a Wellbeing adviser, the successful candidate will deliver a range of innovative interventions and activities to promote positive student health and wellbeing across the University, promoting good practice and delivering training across the University in relation to student support and safeguarding matters.
A relevant professional qualification and relevant work experience is essential.
The Student Wellbeing Service currently operates across two sites: the Marylebone and Harrow Campuses and involves hybrid working. The post holder is expected to work across the university sites and occasionally work outside normal working hours in connection with the duties of the role. The successful candidate will support students face-face on campus and remotely and will be required to undertake a DBS check.
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At the University of Westminster, diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity are at the core of how we engage with students, colleagues, applicants, visitors and all our stakeholders.
We are fully committed to enabling a supportive and safe learning and working environment which is equitable, diverse and inclusive, is based on mutual respect and trust, and in which harassment and discrimination are neither tolerated nor acceptable.
The University has adopted Smart Working principles to support and further our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion aims of being an inclusive, collaborative and flexible employer. Further details of Smart Working can be discussed at interview stage.
Closing date: midnight on: 13 October 2024
Interviews are likely to be held on: 30 October and 31 October 2024