Wellbeing Practitioner (CC12041)

Job title Wellbeing Practitioner

Department Student Support and Safeguarding

Salary Starting from £37,099, rising to £44,263 pro rata

Grade Grade 7

Contract Type Part Time, Fixed Term

Placed on Thursday 05 September 2024

Closing date Thursday 19 September 2024

Interview date Thursday 26 September 2024

Reference CC12041

Special Conditions A DBS check is required for this position, Please see job description for all special conditions.

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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We are looking to recruit a Wellbeing Practitioner to come and work with our Wellbeing Service in the Student Support and Safeguarding department.

The University of Bath's Wellbeing Service operates 365 days a year, working in partnership with other teams and colleagues within the department (particularly our Therapeutic and Mental Health Services). You will be contributing to a developing departmental vision of supporting students to enable them to thrive, as individuals, throughout their journey to, through and beyond the University of Bath.

Wellbeing Practitioners provide support to undergraduate and post-graduate students through undertaking duty work, risk assessments, and structured wellbeing interventions.

You will have a relevant welfare and wellbeing-related academic qualification, along with a professional qualification, membership/registration in the areas of Social Work, Psychology, Youth Work, Probation or allied health professions such as Counselling or Occupational therapy.

You will also have:

This is a part-time role (21.9 hours) for a fixed term period until the 01 September 2025.

The role is a mixture of office based (80%) and working from home (20%), and you will be required to work occasional weekends.

For an informal discussion about this role (including work patterns), please email Neal Davies, Wellbeing Service Manager at [email protected].

Find out more about our benefits.

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, so we 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 are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.