Residential Adviser - Internal Only

Brighton; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 2,400 - 3,200; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free staff accommodation

Annual stipend £2,743

Job summary

The University of Brighton in Brighton is offering a unique opportunity for a Staff Residential Adviser to support students living in halls of residence. You will provide pastoral support as part of the Residential Wellbeing team and live in university accommodation while joining an on-call rota from 7.30pm to 7.30am.

This role is secondary to your substantive university post and requires calm, clear decision‑making during overnight shifts, weekend and bank holiday cover, and adaptability.

Qualifications

• Willingness to live on campus and participate in overnight on-call rota.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to stay calm in challenging situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-line response to student welfare concerns and critical incidents.
• Support students who are homesick or struggling to settle into university life.
• Signpost students to appropriate university support services.
• Help resolve difficulties students may experience in their accommodation.
• Work with the Residential Wellbeing Team to build a sense of community and belonging in halls.

Job description

We are offering a unique opportunity to live and work on campus supporting students in our university accommodation

As a Staff Residential Adviser, you will be part of a team providing pastoral support and guidance to students living in halls of residence. Residential Wellbeing is the support network for students in university accommodation and sits within the wider Student Wellbeing Team. Together, we support around 2500 students living across our campuses in Brighton.

This is a unique role for an existing member of university staff. Alongside your full-time role, you'll live in one of the halls of residence and join a rota with five other Residential Advisers to provide overnight on-call cover from7.30pm to 7.30am, including weekends and bank holidays and closure periods.

The Staff Residential Adviser role is a secondary role undertaken alongside your primary University employment. It is a condition of the Residential Adviser agreement that you are employed in a substantive position at the University of Brighton. If you leave your substantive post, you will unfortunately no longer be eligible to be a Residential Adviser.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Providing a first-line response to student welfare concerns and critical incidents
• Supporting students who are homesick or struggling to settle into university life
• Signposting students to appropriate university support services
• Helping resolve difficulties students may experience in their accommodation
• Working with the Residential Wellbeing Team to build a sense of community and belonging in halls

We are looking for someone who enjoys working directly with students and is committed to supporting them during their university experience. As the role involves out-of-hours work and occasionally responding to challenging situations, you will need to remain calm, think clearly, and make sound decisions when needed.

You should be adaptable, approachable, and have strong communication and interpersonal skills. You must also be willing to live on campus and take part in the overnight on-call rota, including some weekends and bank holidays.

In return, you will be provided with free staff accommodation in halls of residence and an annual stipend (currently £2743 per year)

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system, with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.