Join our busy and friendly Helpdesk team located at the heart of campus in supporting our students to have the best University experience The role of Student Support and Safeguarding is to ensure that students, parents/guardians, and staff can readily access the information, advice and support available, enabling them to fully benefit from their academic and broader experience. You will be the first point of contact for our students, welcoming them to our newly refurbished Student Support Centre. You will be working on our Helpdesk facilitating an in-person service and providing administrative support for the specialist teams within the department. This can mean a diverse and demanding workload which also involves interaction with students and parents in distress. You will possess excellent communication and customer service skills, with experience of working in a service environment and comprehensive IT and organisational skills. Further information This is a permanent, full-time role (36.5 hours per week), working term-time only over 35 weeks. The role will require a mixture of home and office-based working on our main university campus, and periods of work can be discussed at interview. Occasionally you will be required to work outside of your normal working pattern to attend staff events such as University open days and Arrivals weekends. For an informal discussion about the role please contact Nik Irvine, Operations Team Leader at nti22bath.ac.uk. However, please note that all applications must be made on the university recruitment system and cannot be submitted directly to this address. What we can offer you a very generous employer contributory pension scheme generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities Find out more about our benefits. 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, so we 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 are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader ; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us UniofBath and UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information. Closing Date: 09 Feb 2025 Department: Management, Specialist and Administration Salary: £23,144 to £24,533 pro rata