Student Wellbeing Executive Assistant in Edinburgh

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Contract Type: Full Time (1FTE), Open Ended

Rewards and Benefits: 28 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days per year after 5 years service, plus 9 buildings closed days for all full time staff.

About our Team: This post is located within the Disability Team, within the wider Student Wellbeing team, and works closely with colleagues from Counselling, Student Experience, and the Chaplaincy teams. The main purpose of Student Wellbeing is to provide advice, information, and support to undergraduate and postgraduate students, throughout the student lifecycle, from the point of initial enrolment onto a university study programme right through to graduation supporting them to overcome barriers to learning.

Detailed Description: This post plays a key role in delivering front line advice and support to students in the department of Student Wellbeing. You will work alongside Assistant Disability Advisors and the Student Wellbeing Administrator to ensure that a friendly, efficient, and helpful frontline service is delivered. You will carry out administrative work, operating databases and other systems, primarily for the Disability service, and deliver some direct support for a small number of students to facilitate their learning experience.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide a high level of customer service and front‐line advice (face to face, via phone, email) to anyone enquiring at Student Wellbeing Centre reception.
• Carry out financial processes, raising invoices, purchase order numbers, control department credit card and processing payments for the Disability Service.
• Update and process data, including financial information, on spreadsheets, databases and other procurement systems.
• Contact new students who have disclosed a disability and provide them with the relevant information and arrange appointments to see the appropriate advisor.
• Help collate and develop data reporting systems for the Disability Service.
• Carry out initial assessment of students who present with dyslexia and conduct online dyslexia tests.
• Log all student contacts on the database and run reports as necessary ensuring quick turnaround times and an excellent customer experience.
• Provide frontline advice and administrative support for the Student Counselling and Student Experience sections when the other Student Wellbeing Assistant is on leave.
• Support specific students in accessing timetabled lectures, tutorials, group work, laboratories, and related academic tasks.
• Undertake continuing professional development as appropriate.
• Undertake other tasks and responsibilities as requested by the Student Wellbeing Team.

Education, Qualifications and Experience:

• Good educational standard with excellent spoken and written English.
• Experience in working in front line services, assessing the appropriate response, and providing advice, information, and guidance on a range of issues.
• Experience in handling confidential/sensitive information.
• Experience of using IT, including Microsoft Office and Finance systems.
• Experience in carrying out a wide range of administrative tasks and implementing new processes and ability to handle large volumes of data.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a professional, customer‐focused approach with experience of working co‐operatively and effectively within a team.
• Skills in responding to distressed or challenging customers.
• Understanding of the issues that affect students particularly those with a disability or mental health issue.

How to Apply:

Please submit via the Heriot‐Watt on‐line recruitment system (1) Cover letter (2) Full CV. Applications can be submitted up to midnight (UK time) on Tuesday 6th January 2026. We expect interviews to take place on Thursday 15th January 2026.