Wellbeing Officer - #2166995

Company: Elizabeth School of London

Job Title: Wellbeing Officer

Salary: £27,500 per annum

Location: Leeds, UK

Employment Type: Fixed-term contract (12 months)

Working Days & Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

About the Role

The Elizabeth School of London is seeking a Wellbeing Officer to join our Leeds campus. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing high-quality support to our students throughout their academic journey.

As our Wellbeing Officer, your duties will include

• Conduct well-being meetings with the students in order to discuss their problems.
• Analysing and identifying wellbeing cases and sharing a report with the Wellbeing Manager.
• Providing guidance, advice, and information related to student wellbeing and pastoral care is essential, as is offering support to students who are experiencing emotional or practical difficulties that are affecting their learning.
• Managing a caseload of student well-being matters is part of the job, and requires reviewing support needs and logging student outcomes, as well as communicating with tutors and other central services.
• Helping the Wellbeing Manager to deliver workshops, webinars and awareness-raising events.
• Collaborating and communicating with other teams to establish, maintain, and develop productive relationships with colleagues across the University, in order to support service delivery and issue resolution.
• Planning and organising own workload.
• Contributing to longer-term plans/programmes.

We are looking for people who have

Essential:

• A bachelor`s degree or equivalent qualification in Psychology/ Education or related subjects
• A willingness to train, in Mental Health First Aid
• Excellent communication skills
• Good problem-solving skills
• Works collaboratively with others
• Identifies and implements continuous improvement
• Sensitivity and empathy with students, colleagues and staff
• Works collaboratively with others
• Identifies and implements continuous improvement
• Sensitivity and empathy with students, colleagues and staff
• Able to deal with confidential matters and act with discretion

Desirable:

• Master’s in psychology or Mental Health qualification
• Experience in producing and managing timetables in an educational context
• Strong IT skills
• Evidence of working with a diversity of students
• Experience in risk assessments and crisis management.

Benefits

• Annual leave (7.2 weeks)
• Workplace pension scheme.
• Company Sick Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme (HA Wisdom Wellbeing)
• Virtual GP access (Livi)
• 'Speak Up Service' - confidential support service to report any workplace concerns
• Specialist physical and mental wellbeing support services with 24/7 confidential counselling support (Wisdom)
• Specialist menopause support, including online CBT (Wisdom)
• Financial, legal and medical advice services provided (Wisdom)
• Life & Leadership coaching (Wisdom)
• Financial coaching (MUNNY)
• Discounts and perks, offering savings on shopping, activities and more (Bright Exchange)
• Self development and Self taught trainings