Student Accommodation Coordinator Job Reference: SACC /06.2025 Salary: This is a part time role with an actual salary of up to £15,978.18 per annum, and a full-time equivalent salary of up to £26,364 per annum. Working Hours: 20 hours per week over 4 days, 52 weeks per year. Monday to Thursday mornings at various times between 07.00hrs - 11.00/midday. There will be some evening work to facilitate extracurricular activities and cover work, this may include evenings, nights and/or weekends. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Student Accommodation Coordination to join our Accommodation department. The purpose of the role is to be responsible for the effective coordination of accommodation staff, rotas, student welfare and accommodation bookings. The successful applicant must have: Knowledge and understanding of supporting/working with young people aged 16-19 whether in the workplace (youth work, care, education or similar setting) or equivalent Experience of lone working and working on own initiative Knowledge of First aid Maths and English at GCSE A-C grade Excellent verbal and written communication skills with staff and students The ability to deal with student behaviour The ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues and work effectively within a team The ability to work accurately paying attention to details The ability to organise and prioritise workload The ability to identify and proactively resolve problems The ability to keep relevant paperwork and records up to date Ability to work on own initiative working flexibly and multitasking Ability to complete manual handling activities Computer literate - Using Word, Excel, outlook, etc. Housekeeping/ cleaning skills The roles main duties include: Liaising with prospective residents, their parents/carers or employers re: the application procedure and to ensure that use of rooms in accommodation are maximised with financial targets being met Allocating rooms to all fulltime and rotation students Organising the staff rota, ensuring that 24 hour cover is coordinated to safeguard residents and comply with Ofsted national minimum standards for FE residential accommodation Ensuring Health and Safety procedures are adhered to and ensure that safe working practices are observed by staff and students Being a first aider Preparing the various task sheets for daily, night and weekend duties Ensuring all relevant paperwork and records are kept up to date Liaising with Estates and suppliers to ensure that the accommodation is safe, clean and has adequate appliances for residents to use Ensuring adequate stocks of cleaning and washing materials and go shopping to purchase more as required Line-managing the accommodation staff team and ensure that they feel supported, challenged and developed through half termly supervision meetings, target setting and appraisals Managing student behaviour issues Supporting the team in covering shifts as required in cases of sickness and holidays - this may include evenings, nights and/or weekends Being duty manager on a rota basis Being a member of the Safeguarding team (for accommodation) This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised. Fancy a 4-day working week*? Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from working a full-time contract over four days. You will work core hours of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students. What we offer you in return: An excellent pension scheme : Local Government: Employer Contribution 24.5% A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of: 5 Weeks for Support employees, this will increase to 5.8 weeks, after 5 years' service Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 13 July 2025.