As one of the fastest-growing Colleges in the UK, delivering courses from entry level right up to Masters degrees, Weston College is an inspiring place to work. Why not join us as a Cover Warden - Residential Student Accommodation (HE)?.
This is a full-time position, working 15 hours per week, on a 4 week shift pattern:
Weeks 1-3: Monday and Tuesday: 7.00am - 9.00am and 5.00pm-10.30pm
Week 4: Saturday and Sunday: 3.00pm-10.30pm
Day to day of the role
- Supporting UCW students to move into their accommodation, welcoming them and helping them feel a part of the residential community and the University as a whole.
- Supporting students who lose their keys to re-access their accommodation and issuing replacement keys for students as required.
- Ensuring the court yards are kept tidy and the bins are put out on the appropriate day.
- Ensuring the fire alarm is working properly, carrying out weekly testing and ensuring all students evacuate the building in the event of the alarm being activated.
- Helping to resolve low level conflicts within the accommodation.
Required skills and qualifications
- Experience of working within a support capacity, ideally with young people.
- Ability to evidence strong professional boundaries in challenging situation.
- Understanding of and commitment to working in collaborative partnerships.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Benefits
- Generous holiday entitlement
- 2-week Christmas closure
- Potential for hybrid working opportunities
- Dedicated staff welfare officer and wellbeing champions
- Generous pension scheme
- Local and national staff discounts
- Free parking across sites
- Various staff committees including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Autism and Menopause
- Focus on staff wellbeing
- Wellbeing@weston hub
- Eye care including free eye test and a contribution towards glasses
- Annual staff conference with guest speakers
- Employee assistance programme - available 24/7, 365 days a year
- Training and development opportunities with a focus on progression
Weston College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Please be aware that Weston College reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
Due to the volume of recruitment, we are unable to offer feedback to any unsuccessful candidates.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received.