ResLife Community Support Coordinator

Interview date: Tuesday 28 October 2025

Special Conditions: Lone working

About the role

Are you passionate about building inclusive, supportive, and engaging student communities? Do you want to make a meaningful impact on students’ lives by promoting wellbeing, diversity, and a sense of belonging?

At the University of Bath, our ResLife team is seeking a dedicated Community Support Coordinator to help create a safe, welcoming, and enriching residential experience for our diverse student population.

In this role, you’ll support students with additional accommodation needs, contribute to wellbeing initiatives, and work closely with a collaborative team focused on inclusion and community cohesion. You’ll also play a key part in housemate support, meeting with resident students, offering guidance, and helping to resolve disputes to ensure a positive living environment for all.

About you

You will be responsible for a variety of key duties including: 

• Student Wellbeing & Inclusion: Supporting students with diverse needs, including mental health, neurodiversity, and complex personal circumstances while fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful residential environment.
• Operational & Administrative Support: Managing conflict resolution, data records, accommodation applications, and communications, especially for students with additional requirements or transitioning to private housing.
• Cross-Team Collaboration & Continuity: Liaising with internal departments such as Student Support and Security, contributing to safeguarding efforts, and ensuring continuity of service in the absence of the Community Support Manager.

Further information 

This role is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Leona Smith on Ls2785@bath.ac.uk; however please ensure that you submit your application through the university website.

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 and 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're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

Please apply via the ‘Apply’ button above.

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