We are looking to recruit a Wellbeing Practitioner to come and work with our Wellbeing Service in the Student Support and Safeguarding department.
The University of Bath's Wellbeing Service operates 365 days a year, working in partnership with other teams and colleagues within the department (particularly our Therapeutic and Mental Health Services). You will be contributing to a developing departmental vision of supporting students to enable them to thrive, as individuals, throughout their journey to, through and beyond the University of Bath.
Wellbeing Practitioners provide support to undergraduate and post-graduate students through undertaking duty work, risk assessments, and structured wellbeing interventions.
About you
You will have a relevant welfare and wellbeing-related academic qualification, along with a professional qualification, membership/registration in the areas of Social Work, Psychology, Youth Work, Probation or allied health professions such as Counselling or Occupational therapy.
You will also have:
- excellent needs assessment and risk assessment skills, alongside a strong background in working with and managing risk.
- experience of delivering pastoral care, welfare and wellbeing support to a good standard.
- effective communication and negotiating skills.
Further information
This is a part-time role (21.9 hours) for a fixed term period until the 01 September 2025.
The role is a mixture of office based (80%) and working from home (20%), and you will be required to work occasional weekends.
For an informal discussion about this role (including work patterns), please email Neal Davies, Wellbeing Service Manager at nd462@bath.ac.uk.
What we can offer you
- a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
- generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
- an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
Find out more about our benefits.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.