Student Support Officer (Plymouth)

University of Bath; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK university seeks a proactive individual to support Pharmacy education at the University of Plymouth campus. Responsibilities include enhancing student experience and collaboration with academic staff. The position offers hybrid working options and values diversity among applicants.

Benefits

Free counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Flexible working arrangements

Generous annual leave

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Pro-active and self-motivated individual.
• Ability to work collaboratively with academic staff and students.
• Experience in a supportive or educational role is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Support students with their learning experience from induction through to graduation.
• Collaborate with colleagues across universities.
• Ensure students have access to welfare services and community activities.

Skills

Organisational skills

Initiative

Multi-tasking

Communication

Job description

About The Role

The Faculty of Science is looking for a pro-active and self-motivated individual to join our team, to support the delivery of University of Bath Pharmacy education at the University of Plymouth campus. You will play a key role in supporting Bath MPharm at Plymouth supporting students with their learning experience from induction through to graduation. This role will be a lynchpin, monitoring the experiences of this particular group of students as they navigate life as a University of Bath student based at the University of Plymouth, calling on resources from both universities and working with academic staff to ensure their success.

Delivering excellent service matters to us, as well as student and staff wellbeing and University reputation. If this approach resonates with you and you are a good teammate who also enjoys taking initiative, we would encourage you to apply.

About You

The postholder will work collaboratively to deliver a high-quality standard of support, ensuring that services are efficient, effective and adapt to changing circumstances. They will ensure students are aware of and have access to welfare services, skills and employability enhancement opportunities, peer mentoring and activities that promote a sense of community and belonging across both universities.

In fulfilling these functions, the postholder will collaborate with colleagues across the University of Bath and University of Plymouth, as well as the academic leadership team based locally. This is a busy and varied role involving daily communication with academic staff and students, and the postholder needs to have excellent organisational skills, to demonstrate good use of initiative, and have the ability to multi-task and prioritise.

Further information

For informal discussions relating to this role, please contact Sarah Paine, [e-mail]

This role is advertised full time at 1.0FTE (5 days a week) based at the University of Plymouth Campus, with typically 1 or 2 days a week working from home. We would consider part time applications for 0.8 FTE (4 days a week).

For more information please visit - Join the University of Bath MPharm at Plymouth.

Applications from suitably qualified candidates seeking a role which offers hybrid working, full or part time working job sharing and other forms of flexible employment are welcomed.

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 and 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\'re very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What We Can Offer You

We\'re continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

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Further Details

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Right To Work In The UK

We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

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