Student Wellbeing Manager

Student Wellbeing Manager is responsible for fostering a positive and supportive environment by delivering on-site welfare support to employees, building a strong sense of community, and leading wellbeing initiatives. This role involves developing and maintaining a comprehensive Welfare Guide, providing regular on-site training sessions on mental health and wellbeing, and acting as a key point of contact for welfare concerns. Additionally, the Welfare Manager supports the broader management team with day-to-day operational tasks to ensure the smooth running of the site.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Provide direct support to students facing mental health or welfare challenges.
• Signpost students to appropriate external services (e.g., university support, GPs, counselling, charities).
• Lead on debt-related conversations where necessary, offer personal support, and manage documentation packs.
• Act as first point of contact for welfare-related incidents, escalating when appropriate.
• Maintain accurate, confidential welfare case records in line with safeguarding and GDPR requirements.

Programmes & Events

• Deliver a structured wellbeing events programme aligned with the student lifecycle.
• Run events focused on mental health, budgeting, social connection, and personal development.
• Engage external contractors, charities, and wellbeing partners to enhance programmes.
• Monitor participation and feedback to continuously improve the wellbeing calendar.

Community Building

• Improve resident communication through wellbeing updates, and digital channels.
• Host flat meetings, mediate disputes, and support students in conflict resolution.
• Foster an inclusive community and promote peer-to-peer support initiatives (e.g., buddy schemes, cultural integration).
• Encourage shared responsibility for cleanliness, respectful co-living, and positive community standards.

Operational Support

• Work as part of the property team, supporting and respecting colleagues to deliver exceptional resident living.
• Support the creation of a positive, memorable experience for residents.
• Deliver customer service front-of-house, anticipating and exceeding resident expectations.
• Respond positively to customer queries and complaints, undertaking appropriate action in line with company procedures.
• Support and attend property-wide events and community activities.
• Conduct regular community walks and room inspections to identify early wellbeing or hygiene concerns.
• Advise students on cleanliness and hygiene standards, encouraging healthy living habits to reduce the likelihood of pest or health problems.
• Support incident management outside direct welfare (e.g., behavioural issues, disputes).
• Act as a role model by demonstrating company values at all times.
• Actively interact with residents to proactively improve service delivery and welfare awareness.
• Participate, where required, in the on-call rota to provide out-of-hours emergency support for the community.
• Develop policy and procedures that can standardise the wellbeing approach across the city with wider effects at Greystar level.
• Develop and maintain external relationships with providers and charities to establish a support network for students.
• Develop and deploy training programmes for operational team members, to ensure compliance with signposting, welfare response and community engagement.

Training & Resources

• Develop and maintain a Welfare Guide outlining responses to welfare scenarios and escalation pathways.
• Deliver welfare awareness training to on-site staff, ensuring confidence in basic protocols.
• Arrange or provide local training (e.g., safeguarding refreshers, cultural awareness, wellbeing first aid) to reduce reliance on external options.
• Stay up to date with local student wellbeing networks, charities, and referral partners.

About You

You should possess a good level of general education and demonstrate fluent verbal and written communication skills in English. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and Outlook is essential, along with confidence in using databases or booking systems, with training provided on in-house platforms. You should exhibit excellent organisational abilities, capable of managing multiple cases and initiatives simultaneously. Emotional intelligence, compassion, and resilience are key attributes, especially given the need for strong experience in wellbeing, safeguarding, or mental health-related leadership roles. You should be self-aware and culturally sensitive, able to tailor your relationship-building, communication, and negotiation skills to suit diverse audiences. Demonstrable experience working with young adults—ideally within higher education or student accommodation—is important, as is significant experience supporting individuals with complex mental health needs or trauma. An understanding of debt management processes and awareness of support services is beneficial, with training available. You should also have knowledge of relevant legislation, including GDPR, The Care Act, Prevent Duty, and mental capacity frameworks. Finally, you should be a strong team player who can also work independently and take ownership of responsibilities.

What We Offer

We include a range of benefits for our corporate team members, including competitive pension, healthcare, and holiday allowance, amongst others as standard. Please reach out if you are keen to know more.

About Greystar

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated real estate company offering expertise in investment management, development, and management of rental housing properties globally. The company's business model is unique in its ability to own, operate, and develop multifamily, student, and senior housing across the globe. Building a global platform with a local presence, Greystar continues to expand its geographic reach around the world, bringing a globally interconnected professional rental housing platform and industry funded with institutional capital to countries where the sector does not yet exist. Greystar’s pan – European platform was established in 2013 and has scaled rapidly, now with investment, operational and development presence in the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Spain.

One of Greystar’s core values is Equality, and as such, we continue to pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer, accounting for all protected and identifiable characteristics. We truly value diversity of thought, background and of experience. Please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team to explore opportunities at Greystar in more detail or visit our careers site at https://jobs.greystar.com/.

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