Tackling Harassment Student Advisor Southampton, England
Job description
The University of Southampton is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced individual to join our Wellbeing team as a Tackling Harassment Adviser. The post sits within the Wellbeing Team and will engage and liaise with both internal and external partners. The Tackling Harassment Adviser will work with a caseload of students to provide advice and support related to issues surrounding all harassment including sexual violence, harassment and racial harassment. The Adviser will also play a key role in raising awareness, fostering stakeholder relationships and promoting the ‘Expect Respect’ agenda to the university community. The Student Wellbeing Team plays a significant role in enhancing the quality of our students’ experience, and to achieve this, strong collaboration is required with colleagues in other areas of the University, such as the student hub, faculties, student discipline and many other areas.
The Tackling Harassment Adviser is part of the Student Wellbeing Service. The service offer includes: a 24/7 Open Door drop-in service, wellbeing workshops, events, a team of wellbeing practitioners, self-help resources and short-term counselling.
Main duties include:
- To provide specialist support and guidance to students who have experienced all areas related to harassment.
- To lead on prevention activities including the roll out of suitable training and awareness raising campaigns targeted at our student body.
- To represent the University at external events, linking with the community and other service providers.
- Contribute to University wide projects with specialist knowledge.
- Actively promote the work of the Wellbeing Team both within the University and the wider local community, including offering support and training to staff across the University.
- Setting up and arranging marketing/events/campaigns and promotional activities for the team.
The successful candidates will have excellent communication skills, and proven experience in relevant sectors. If you have experience of working with those impacted by Sexual Harm and Violence, Racial harassment or Wellbeing concerns and are passionate about raising awareness we welcome your application. An understanding of working within a Higher Education setting would be beneficial but is not essential.
The roles offer flexible working with a blend of on campus and home working. The successful candidate will get involved in the wider Wellbeing Team’s outreach work on some weekends spread across the academic calendar.
We give full consideration to applicants that wish to work flexibly and those who have taken a career break. For further information please visit https://www.southampton.ac.uk/diversity/index.page
We are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect, and equality of opportunity to meet the needs of our diverse student population. We select candidates based on merit and ability and aspire to thrive in the diversity of our workforce.
If you would like more information about this vacancy, please contact Lead Practitioner Gemma Penney – [email protected] or Lead Practitioner Marie Fall – [email protected]
A standard DBS check is required for this role.
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Application Procedure
The application deadline is midnight on the closing date stated above. If you need assistance, call Recruitment on +44 (0) 23 8059 2750, or email [email protected]. Quote the advert reference 2188323AJ on all correspondence.
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We believe equality, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to making the University of Southampton a welcoming, vibrant and successful organisation. Having a diverse workforce, inclusive of people of all ages and beliefs, from different racial, educational and social backgrounds opens up a wealth of possibilities, makes us more creative and accelerates our impact on society. We welcome applicants that value the diversity of our community and are willing to play their part in supporting the mission of inclusivity.
Please note that applications from agencies will not be accepted unless indicated in the job advert.
