Job Title: Welfare and Wellbeing Administrator
Department: Learning Support
Job Type: ongoing Temporary
Salary: 15.60ph
The post holder will play a key role in the support and continuous development of the use of the Welfare and Wellbeing service at the City of Liverpool College. This will include triaging referral queries assisting staff and students in their engagement with the Mental health Counselling and Safeguarding Service across the College. The role will also include tracking and reporting team data taking minutes of team meetings and other administrative duties as and when required /or directed by the manager or Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
Knowledge of Safeguarding and/or Mental Health would be an advantage to working with the team as well as a good grounding in administration in a demanding setting.
A willingness to train in Level 2 & 3 Safeguarding and Level 2 Mental Health are key to this role.
You may be expected to work across 5 college sites from time to time.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a first point of contact for the team including telephone and email queries and referrals relating to safeguarding and wellbeing Responsible for the Safeguarding duty phone to discuss and triage students needs at the point of referral
- Responsible for taking and distribute minutes from team meetings
- Take responsibility of communication of services offered by the team across the College.
- Create documentation user guides information leaflets to support staff and students in their use of the welfare and wellbeing service and the referral processes.
- Support the organisation of wellbeing events and campaigns
- Ensure daily routines are established and followed and communicated to the team ensuring that all operational and administrative procedures take place in an accurate and timely manner.
- Assist with designing planning and organising of online promotional material for staff and students.
- Maintain accurate records and assist with CPOMS access training and reporting on CPOMs is an important part of the role a willingness to train and develop your knowledge in CPOMS usage will be required.
- Provide general administrative support to the wider team as required such as organising meetings updating intranet and VLE pages creating purchase orders booking staff development activities etc
- Provide data for CPOM reports to the Director of Learning Support and Wellbeing for Senior Leadership and Board meetings.
- Analyse CPOM data for current trends across site and school level. Provide the information to the SLT and Board through line manager.
- Ensure that the highest levels of customer care are established and maintained and that customer care training is up to date and regularly reviewed
- Work flexibly & responsively as part of the College workforce including supporting service delivery in a number of key areas such as enrolment duty services as required
- Take an initiative-taking approach and responsibility for personal professional development Health & Safety and meeting other regulatory compliances (e.g. GDPR DPA Safeguarding) thereby enabling safe and professional working practices to be observed at all times.
- Conduct any other relevant and appropriate duties as determined by the needs of the service and as appropriate to the grade.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Essential Criteria
- Minimum Grade C/ Level 4 in English and Mathematics or equivalent
- In depth understanding of confidentiality and GDPR
- Excellent IT skills including use of standard Microsoft Office software.
- Effective presentation skills and excellent spoken and written English.
- Experience of contributing to reports documentation and user guides.
- Experience of administration of support services
- Knowledge of safeguarding mental health and wellbeing issues that affect young people and vulnerable adults
- High level of personal resilience and ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
- Positive personality self-motivated /enthusiastic
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to maintain accurate records in a timely manner
- Ability to evaluate data and report the findings to the team members as well as line managers
- Ability to build strong rapport with a wide range of customers
- Solutions focused approach to resolving customer issues and queries
- Commitment to keep up to date with new and emerging support needs and and resources and horizon scanning to identify potential opportunities to enhance the service.
Desirable Criteria
- Strong experience of working in a busy student support services team and liaising directly with
- Experience of providing advice and support to staff and students in an educational environment
- Evidence of supporting a team to deliver training students to understand their needs.
Benefits
Why Join The City of Liverpool College
Benefits of working at the College
As a valued member of our College community youll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits dedicated wellbeing support and meaningful opportunities for professional growth and development.
Pension Scheme
Youll be part of the Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions of up to 20.20% one of the best pension packages in the sector.
Leave entitlement
Up to 27 days annual holiday allowance plus 1 wellbeing day. Youll also benefit from 5 to 7 days statutory closure and 2 further days closure at Easter.
Employee Benefit Platform
As part of your role youll have access to the COLC Employee Benefits Platform a one-stop hub for a wide range of perks designed to support your wellbeing work-life balance and everyday savings. Youll be able to access discounts at major supermarkets fashion and lifestyle retailers tech stores travel providers and more. Youll also benefit from the Cycle to Work Scheme cinema and leisure discounts and tech and home appliance discounts with the option of spreading the cost through salary sacrifice. The platform is part of our commitment to supporting you in every aspect of your working life and beyond.
Health and Wellbeing
As part of our commitment to supporting your health and wellbeing all employees have access to the Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) a completely confidential support service available 24/7 365 days a year. Whether youre facing personal challenges looking for advice or simply need someone to talk to Health Assured is here to help. Through Health Assured you can access a 24/7 confidential helpline face to face online or telephone counselling as well as structured support for a wide range of issues including stress anxiety relationships bereavement legal and financial concerns.
Youll also have access to the online wellbeing portal a secure user-friendly platform offering a wide range of self-help resources health assessments articles and guidance covering emotional physical and financial wellbeing and to the Wisdom App which offers mood trackers and wellbeing tools meditation guides fitness videos and self-help modules as well as daily wellbeing tips.
Youll also be entitled to a free eye test through our voucher scheme with Specsavers which covers a full eye exam (worth up to 25) and even includes 45 towards a pair of glasses. We also offer free flu vaccinations to help keep you feeling your best all year round.
Travel
Weve partnered with Arriva to bring you great savings on bus travel. Plus we offer interest-free loans to help you buy annual travel passes from Merseytravel and Merseyrail. That means you can enjoy the savings of up to two months free travelwithout having to cover the full cost upfront. Its all about making your commute more affordable and less stressful.
Flexible Working
We offer flexible working options depending on business need to support our employees work-life balance.
Professional Development
Were passionate about helping you thrive offering a mix of formal and informal professional development opportunitiesdesigned to sharpen your skills expand your knowledge and accelerate your career.
College Benefits
Our excellent sports and fitness facilities can be used free of charge by staff. You can also access a range of discounted hair and beauty treatments at our Academy and Graduate Hair & Beauty Salons and a staff discount at our Academy Restaurant.