Salary: £32,000 - £37,000 per annum
Employment type: Permanent
Hours per week: 37
Reporting into: Wellbeing Manager
Department: Student Experience
Click here to read the full job description and view our excellent benefits here
This role is primarily remote, with little to no requirement to travel to the campus closest to your place of residence, the campuses are listed below.
Our working model arrangements are a non-contractual benefit so please note that an Arden work location is added to our employment contracts.
* Coventry head office
* Birmingham campus
* Leeds campus
* Nottingham campus
* Manchester campus
* London area (Stratford, Holborn & Ealing)
About Arden University :
We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.
There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.
Student Experience :
Our Student Hub Advisors sit within our Student Experience team who are crucial to providing pastoral support and career advice to students to maintain student welfare. This includes providing the best experience and guidance from application, admission, through to graduation.
The role - Wellbeing Adviser (Priority Groups)
Arden University works to ensure that Higher Education is as accessible to as many students as possible by proactively seeking to identify and address any potential barriers to application and engagement and by providing appropriate support for all students to support them to succeed.
Working as part of Arden’s Wellbeing Services, you will help form and shape this exciting
new role, supporting refugee and asylum-seeker students across Arden to be in the best
possible position to achieve success in their study goals.
About You:
We are looking for a highly organised and proactive Wellbeing Adviser (Priority Groups) with the following experience:
Essential requirements:
* Undergraduate Degree or equivalent qualification or experience
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills (including listening skills and competent IT skills)
* Highly effective organisational skills – able to organise, set priorities, self-motivate and manage own workload efficiently with minimum supervision. Be able to make
independent and collaborative decisions
* Ability to communicate information that needs careful explanation or interpretation, in order to help others to understand or adopt a viewpoint. To give presentations
and/or conduct workshops
* Experience of working with refugee or asylum seeker students from a diverse range of backgrounds in a Higher Education environment.
* Working knowledge of Safeguarding.
Desirable requirements:
* Level 2 or above Safeguarding qualification
* Experience of working in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) or Access and Participation-related initiatives in higher education
* Experience of delivering training and workshops.
Why Arden:
At Arden, you will become a part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to removing unnecessary barriers to learning and making education more accessible. Our people work hard to ensure our students journeys are the best they can possibly be, as such we want to reward our people with fantastic benefits. Employees benefit from:
* 30 days holiday + bank holidays on-top, and even a Christmas closure!
* A generous Aviva pension plan, company contributions starting from 7%
* SimplyHealth plan option
* Private Medical Insurance coverage (applies to certain job roles)
* Access to Perkbox benefits
* Study any Arden course for free, with a discount for all family and friends
* Plus, other excellent benefits
* Our ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education
Our Values:
Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a growing business, we want to hear from you.
There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines and locations.
Closing Date: Sunday 19 October
We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the specified closing date should we receive sufficient applications or in order to respond to business needs. In order to avoid missing an opportunity to apply please submit your application as early as possible.
If you are a current Arden student or have an upcoming course with us, you are not eligible to apply for Student Experience roles due to a conflict of interest related to system access.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion:
Arden University is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. This means that if you have a disability, as defined by the Disability Equality Act 2010, you may be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the role.
If you wish to be considered under this scheme, you can indicate via the application form below. By doing so, you are also consenting for this information to be shared with the hiring team. For more details on what qualifies as a disability under the Disability Equality Act 2010, please refer to the guidance here .
As an Equal Opportunity Employer we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances, and actively welcome applications from all groups.
Sponsorship statement:
Please be aware that some roles may not meet the points requirement for a sponsored Skilled Worker visa under the points-based immigration system. However, we welcome applications from candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK but may be eligible for a visa through an alternative route.