Student Support and Wellbeing Officer

eTeach UK Limited; Blindley Heath; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An independent specialist college in Blindley Heath is seeking a Student Support and Wellbeing Officer to provide essential support to young disabled adults. This role involves helping students with mental health queries, fostering positive relationships with stakeholders, and creating tailored resources. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and experience in emotional support. The position offers a salary of £23,764.14 per annum, working 35 hours a week.

Qualifications

• Willingness to engage in ongoing professional development.
• Experience in wellbeing, pastoral or emotional support role.
• Ability to create innovative visual resources for learners.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to learners regarding mental health and wellbeing.
• Establish positive relationships with learners and external contacts.
• Implement strategies to promote positive behaviour and engagement.

Skills

Experience working with young disabled adults

Excellent computer literacy and administrative skills

Ability to work well in a team

Positive and solution-focused approach

Calm and patient communicator

Flexibility in working with learners

Adapt communication according to needs

Education

Level 2 qualification in youth work or learning support

Minimum of 5 GCSEs A-C including Maths and English

Job description

Overview

The Orpheus Centre is an independent specialist college in Godstone, Surrey. We focus on developing independence skills through performing and visual arts and make dramatic improvements to young disabled adults’ lives.

Role

We are currently seeking a Student Support and Wellbeing Officer to provide a wide range of support to learners throughout their time at the Orpheus Centre. This includes, but is not limited to, responding to queries regarding a student\'s mental health, providing wellbeing / pastoral support (including during dog therapy sessions), and implementing and monitoring the success of strategies and interventions to promote positive behaviour, learner engagement and wellbeing. The role requires establishing ongoing communication and positive relationships with learners, parents / carers, colleagues and external contacts to ensure learners are provided with the best possible support and guidance to help them flourish and thrive.

Hours, duties and salary

35 hours per week / 44 weeks per year. The post demands a high level of flexibility and the ability to adapt to changes due to service needs. Salary: £23,764.14 per annum.

Essential qualifications, knowledge and experience

• Minimum of Level 2 qualification in youth work or learning support
• Minimum of 5 GCSEs A-C or equivalent including Maths and English
• Experience working with young disabled adults
• Experience of working in a wellbeing, pastoral or emotional support role
• Willingness to maintain and update personal specialist skills and knowledge through engaging with appropriate professional development activities and training
• Excellent computer literacy and administrative skills
• Ability to create innovative visual resources for learners
• Flexibility when working with learners and staff and in attending all events in the evenings and where necessary at other times
• Ability to create internal learning and development plan and resources
• Ability to work well in a team and foster good relationships within a multi-disciplinary workforce
• Ability to adapt communication according to the needs of learners
• Resilient
• Calm and patient communicator
• Positive and solution focussed approach
• Experience working in further education with young adults with learning and/or physical disabilities is desirable.

Safeguarding, equality and eligibility

Orpheus is committed to safeguarding and promotes the welfare of all service users. As part of our safer recruitment process and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025, online searches will form part of this process. We are committed to the promotion of equal opportunities.

This post is classed as having a high degree of contact with vulnerable adults and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. It is therefore subject to an Enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure Barring Service.

In order to be considered you must be eligible to work in the UK.

Disability Confident Employer

The Orpheus Centre is proud to be a disability confident employer. We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure as required in consultation with the applicant to ensure no-one is disadvantaged because of their disability. If a disabled person is selected for a position, reasonable adjustments will be made to the workplace, including premises and equipment, work duties and practices or policies, as appropriate. All disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role as set out in the role profile and person specification will be guaranteed an interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are:

• Challenging attitudes towards disability
• Increasing understanding of disability
• Removing barriers to disabled people and those with long-term health conditions
• Ensuring that disabled people have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspiration

Application note

Applications will be reviewed as we receive them and if a suitable candidate is identified, we reserve the right to close our advert sooner.