About the role As the Residential Wellbeing Coordinator, you will be the cornerstone of student support across UNE's vibrant residential system.
This is a pivotal leadership role where you will manage the wellbeing function across six colleges, ensuring our residents have the support they need to thrive both personally and academically.
You won't just be managing cases; you'll be building a proactive, evidence-based culture of care.
By bridging the gap between residential life and central support services (like CAPS and SAWO), you will lead early intervention strategies, manage complex student welfare needs, and play a key role in our commitment to preventing and responding to gender-based violence.
Working under broad direction, you will have the autonomy to drive leading practices that ensure our residential environments remain secure, supportive, and student-centred.
About you To be successful in this role, you will have: Demonstrated expertise in student wellbeing and mental health,



with proven experience supporting students in contexts of risk, trauma and crisis.
You will bring strong judgement and the ability to work effectively under broad direction, triaging concerns, developing practical self-care/support plans, and coordinating timely referrals to internal and external services.
You will have highly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across a diverse residential community, while maintaining confidentiality and appropriate professional boundaries.
You will also demonstrate a strong working knowledge of relevant legislation and policy obligations (including duty of care, safeguarding, privacy, WHS, disability access and gender-based violence prevention and response) and confidence using digital to support high-quality reporting, trend analysis and continuous improvement.

📌 Residential Wellbeing Coordinator (Armidale)
🏢 University Of New England
📍 Armidale