Residences Senior Wellbeing Support Advisor (Part-Time) - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Residences Senior Wellbeing Support Advisor (Part-Time) - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

About us:

Kings Residences is a department within the Estates and Facilities directorate at Kings College London. Overseeing 14 Halls of Residences for around 6,000 Kings students, we are a dynamic and passionate team dedicated to ensuring the students receive the greatest living-in experience during their academic study.

About the role:

The role leads the delivery of out-of-hours wellbeing provision within Kings Residences, providing line management and professional supervision to a team of out-of-hours advisors while overseeing the operational delivery of pastoral support during evenings, weekends, and other non-standard hours.

The postholder responds directly to incidents, crises, and wellbeing concerns affecting students in residence, offering immediate pastoral support, guidance, and signposting within a non-clinical remit, while supporting advisors to manage complex or high-risk situations.

The role holds oversight of ongoing student wellbeing concerns, including reviewing cases, ensuring appropriate follow-up, documentation, and coordination with relevant university services. Acting as the primary escalation point during out-of-hours periods, the postholder exercises professional judgement to manage risk and ensure timely referral to senior colleagues or specialist services where required.

Part-time contract covering every other weekend, Bank Holidays and University closure days (14 hours per fortnight, with 3.75 hours banked per fortnight).

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Significant experience supervising and supporting staff in roles related to student support, social work, youth work, mental health, or comparable wellbeing services.
2. Demonstrable experience in a welfare, advisory, or student support role, involving complex cases.
3. You must demonstrate a clear ability to guide, support, and facilitate learning and case discussions in a peer-to-peer setting.
4. A high level of emotional resilience and the ability to work calmly under pressure, containing anxiety in self and others whilst prioritising activity to meet service demands and deadlines
5. You should demonstrate excellent communication skills, the ability to actively listen, critically analyse complex or challenging situations, and undertake thorough risk assessments to support effective and safe decision-making.
6. A strong dedication to improving service standards, a proactive approach to quality assurance, and a highly collaborative working style are vital for this role.
7. Demonstrable knowledge of the requirements around Safeguarding and GDPR responsibilities.
8. Full clean driving licence

Desirable criteria

1. Current accreditation/registration with a relevant and appropriate professional body.
2. Experience of working in a HE institution.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

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