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Residences Welfare Lead

£44,343 - £44,343
London - Central
Temporary / Interim
 

Job Description

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To provide welfare and pastoral care service to Summer School residential students appropriate to their age and background, to ensure their well-being whilst attending King’s Summer Programmes. Leading a team of residential assistants, the Residential Welfare Lead provides both support to students in crisis, as well as proactive care and support to all students during their stay. The postholder will be required to live in the designated student residence between 1 July and 23 July 2023.



There are two part time posts available which will be offered on fixed-term contracts to 31st July 2023.



Please note working hours from April – June Mon – Fri will be 17.5 hours (0.5 FTE)  



During programme delivery (July):  Five days out of seven including weekends (0.5 FTE); postholder may be required to work additional hours during this period; this will be paid at the normal hourly rate.



Welfare and Pastoral Care




  • Ensure the safety and security of the students in accommodation

  • Ensure that Safeguarding policies and procedures are understood and followed by all residential assistants

  • Triaging queries and concerns of all students, liaising with the appropriate staff to ensure resolution

  • Carry out regular accommodation checks to ensure that residential assistants monitor noise levels, litter, general tidiness, and damage and making sure that all necessary residential systems and procedures are followed

  • Work with teams to ensure the highest possible student satisfaction levels are achieved by reviewing students’ questionnaire results on a weekly basis and creating, logging, and implementing a weekly action plan to address feedback and suggestions given by students

  • Manage any emergency arising during the night that may compromise the security and/or safety of the students and staff, following King’s Summer Programmes escalation and incident policies

  • Complete incident reports and preliminary investigations, escalating findings to the residence management team and central welfare support

  • Provide a confidential space for students to speak about issues related to their wellbeing

  • Offer support to residential assistants when incidents relating to students occur, including disruptive behaviour and those related to alcohol or substance misuse

  • Raise any health and safety issues regarding student welfare and the breaching of any welfare policies to the specified member of College staff



Residential Assistants Training and Management




  • Lead the training programme for the Residential Assistants team

  • Organise the residential assistants rota

  • Lead and manage a team of residential assistants competently, confidently, and professionally, monitoring their performance and providing support, guidance, and training where necessary

  • Oversee the provision of social activities in the halls of residence and ensuring residential assistant engagement and supervision

  • Ensure Health & Safety policies, procedures along with applicable risk assessments are being adhered to, for students and staff to be safe at all times

  • Review leaflets, posters, contact cards; ensure they are kept up to date and request orders as needed to keep stock replenished

  • Support the residential assistants to mediate student disputes, where appropriate and safe to do so, to ensure a culture of mutual respect is maintained

  • Be actively involved in the planning for student arrivals in the residences



Other




  • Maintaining confidentiality always, only discussing a case with staff that have been assigned to manage it

  • Develop and maintain strong interpersonal relationships with the residential assistants’ team to ensure good team-work and a strong, supported work culture

  • Build strong relationship with the residence management team, reception staff, central student support and security/night teams

  • Attend ad-hoc meetings to discuss current welfare and discipline cases



Training will be provided to the successful candidate.



The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.



Qualifications

As listed above. 



Skills

Essential criteria  




  1. Experience in working with young adults 

  2. Demonstrable experience of managing safeguarding concerns and overseeing the safeguarding activities of others (particularly with young adults)   

  3. Experience in managing staff   

  4. Experience of delivering training, including safeguarding training 

  5. Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced environment 

  6. A strong awareness of Health & Safety (specifically as it relates to residential accommodation) 

  7. Strong and demonstrable organisation skills 

  8. Ability to solve issues and problems with/between staff and students 

  9. Clear and accurate communication skills both written and verbal 

  10. Able to plan own workload, work to tight deadlines and manage multiple projects, reprioritizing or adapting as necessary 

  11. Excellent attention to detail and record keeping 

  12. Must be able to live in the student accommodation during operational delivery (1 – 23 July) 

  13. Experience working in a summer school or similar environment 



 



Desirable criteria




  1. Experience of working in a residential environment 

  2. Experience in dealing with international students 

  3. First Aid and Mental Health First Aid training

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