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Twin Employment & Training Ltd. is seeking a Residential Student Welfare Officer to ensure the safety and well-being of students at various summer centres across the UK. The role involves supervision, primarily addressing welfare concerns, and supporting students emotionally and practically. The position requires candidates to have a solid understanding of safeguarding and pastoral care, with a valid First Aid certificate being essential. Successful applicants can expect a fulfilling yet challenging environment while helping create a supportive atmosphere for students.
Residential Student Welfare Officer
Summer Centres – various locations across the UK
Temporary full time – including evenings and weekends
As a Welfare Officer, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safety, welfare, and well-being of our students and staff. This involves responding to student welfare concerns, supervision issues, and operational/accommodation needs in a fast-paced residential environment. You will act as the primary point of contact for Individual Students and for student welfare and supervision matters, creating a safe, inclusive and supportive environment for all.
Key Responsibilities
Student Welfare and Safeguarding:
Residential Student Welfare Officer
Summer Centres – various locations across the UK
Temporary full time – including evenings and weekends
As a Welfare Officer, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safety, welfare, and well-being of our students and staff. This involves responding to student welfare concerns, supervision issues, and operational/accommodation needs in a fast-paced residential environment. You will act as the primary point of contact for Individual Students and for student welfare and supervision matters, creating a safe, inclusive and supportive environment for all.
Key Responsibilities
Student Welfare and Safeguarding:
We are dedicated to ensuring that all job applicants and members of staff are treated equally, without discrimination on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.
Disability Confident Employer
Disabled applicants should indicate in the Equality of Opportunity section of the application form if they wish their application to be given consideration under the Disability Confident scheme.
If you are invited to interview, please advise the recruitment administrator what adjustment you would require at the interview in as much detail as possible to enable arrangements to be put into place.
We ask all applicants if they want to be considered under this scheme. By opting-in to this scheme, you are disclosing that you have a disability solely for the purpose of the interview guarantee and we will not assume nor infer that you wish to disclose or record your disability in any other way – including any reasonable adjustments you may need if you are employed.
Access to Work Scheme
You can apply for Access to Work if you need support to get back to work.You can apply using the online service or apply by phoning Jobcentre Plus on:Telephone:0800 121 7479or Textphone:0800 121 7579
Are you a returner to Twin Summer Centres?* No Yes
When are you available to work? Please enter dates from - to*
What is the minimum number of weeks you would like to work for?* 2 weeks 4 weeks 6 weeks
Which centre(s) are you interested in?* Canterbury, St Edmunds Dublin, Kings Hospital School Eastbourne, Twin English Centre Edinburgh, Loretto School Gloucester, University of Gloucester London Docklands, University of East London London Greenwich, Twin English Centre (non-residential) London Kingston, University of Kingston Wellington College, Crowthorne
Do you have the right to live and work in the UK without any restriction?*
Will you be applying to work in the UK on a Frontier Worker Permit?
You can only apply for a Frontier Worker permit if you’re from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, and you:
live outside the UK and have worked in the UK seasonally in the past:
You must:
have started working in the UK while living elsewhere by 31 December 2020, either as an employed or self-employed person.
do eligible work.
usually have worked in the UK (as an employed or self-employed person) at least once every 12 months since you started working here.
For further details on the Frontier Worker Permit, please visit the UK.Gov website:
https://www.gov.uk/frontier-worker-permit/who-can-apply*
Please Upload any relevant Academic Qualifications [Year -Qualification - Institution and Location - comments ]
Other qualifications (safeguarding, first aid, sports coaching, etc)
Please provide the following details:
-Qualification
-Level
-Institution, awarding body & location
-Date awarded and expiry date if applicable
Please provide details of any gaps in your employment history with supporting dates. (if none, put "N/A")*
Please upload a cover letter*
Do you have offences to declare?
(If Yes, please list details of offence(s), place and date of any judgement(s) and sentence(s); if No, please put "N/A". The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. Please note any criminal convictions except those 'spent', or otherwise ‘protected’, under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.)*
Have you lived or worked outside of the UK for more than three months in the past five years?* Yes No
I confirm that a police check will be required for anywhere I have lived or worked for more than three months in the past five years. In the absence of police checks being available from outside the UK, I understand that additional references will be required.* Yes N/A
I confirm that an Enhanced DBS + Barred List Check and a Prohibited List Check (UK) or Garda Check (Ireland) will be carried out if I am offered a position at Twin Summer Centres. If you are not a returning employee, Twin will cover the cost of this.* Yes
I confirm that I have read and understood the Twin Group Safeguarding and Prevent, Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy which can be found here: https://twingroup.org/en/policies/*
References - Referee 1
(We will only contact references once you have accepted a Job Offer from Twin. For most positions these will cover the last 3 years of employment history. You must provide the names and contact details of at least 2 referees to cover your last 3-years of employment, or, if appropriate, your last school, college or university.)*
References - Referee 2
(We will only contact references once you have accepted a Job Offer from Twin. For most positions these will cover the last 3 years of employment history. You must provide the names and contact details of at least 2 referees to cover your last 3-years of employment, or, if appropriate, your last school, college or university.)*
Data Protection Statement
All of the information collected in this form is necessary and relevant to the performance of the job applied for. We will use the information provided by you on this form, by the referees you have noted, and the educational institutions with whom we may undertake to verify your qualifications with, for recruitment purposes only. The Company will treat all personal information with the utmost confidentiality and in line with current data protection legislation. We rely on the lawful basis of UK GDPR to process the information provided by you in this form.
Should you be successful in your application, the information provided, and further information which will be gathered at the relevant time, will be subsequently used for the administration of your employment and in relation to any legal challenge which may be made regarding our recruitment practices.
For more information on how we use the information you have provided, please see our privacy notice for job applicants which is located at https://www.twinuk.com/media/802644/privacy-policy.pdf* I understand and agree with this statement
Disability Confident declaration:
We ask all applicants if they want to be considered under this scheme. By opting in to this scheme, you are disclosing that you have a disability solely for the purpose of the interview guarantee and we will not assume nor infer that you wish to disclose or record your disability in any other way – including any reasonable adjustments you may need if you are employed.
As a Disability Confident Leader, Disabled applicants should indicate in this section if they wish their application to be given consideration under the Disability Confident scheme.
If yes, please advise the recruitment administrator by emailing hr@twingroup.org detailing your declaration to be considered under this scheme and the adjustments you may require for the interview in as much detail as possible to enable arrangements to be put into place. **
Declaration
I confirm that the above information is complete and correct and that any untrue or misleading information will give my employer the right to terminate any employment offered. I understand that any offer of employment is subject to the Company being satisfied with the results of series of relevant checks including references, eligibility to work in the UK, criminal convictions, probationary period and a medical report (in line with the operation of the Equality Act 2010).* I confirm