Wellbeing Practitioner

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.

About you

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:

• excellent needs assessment and risk assessment skills, alongside a strong background in working with and managing risk.
• experience of delivering pastoral care, welfare and wellbeing support to a good standard.
• effective communication and negotiating skills. 

Further information

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 nd462@bath.ac.uk.

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