Student Welfare Officer

Welfare Officer
• Maidstone, England, UK

Final date to receive applications:
December 18 2025
Department:
Student Welfare

Employment Type:

Term Time

Location:

Maidstone Campus
Workplace type:
Onsite
Compensation: 35203 - 41390 / year
Reporting To:
Helen Hook, hiring manager

• JAVA/J2EE
• Apparel Merchandising
• Community Services
• Claims Investigation
• Logistics Coordination

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority

Vacancy: 1

A GOOD local College for Maidstone and Medway.

Every year over 6000 students from Medway Maidstone and beyond choose Mid Kent College to continue their studies and prepare for their future career.

Our sparkling campuses in Maidstone and Medway boast some of the best vocational training facilities in the country as well as staff and student social zones and more. Our University Centre Maidstone campus provides a valuable higher education and professional training centre for Maidstone including South East Institute of Technology and the Colleges Home Energy Centre. Additionally in September 2024 we proudly opened Medway School of Arts in Chathams Historic Dockyard.

All of our campuses benefit from ongoing investment programmes so that we can provide fantastic learning environments for our students.

For over 100 years we’ve been providing high-quality technical training and apprenticeships in a range of subject areas.

In October 2024 Ofsted rated the College as Good.

We are committed to the safeguarding of all our students and staff. This means everyone who works here is required to actively protect them from preventable harm. Our recruitment and selection process includes background checks which will be undertaken on the successful applicant including an enhanced DBS and in your application you are required to demonstrate how you meet the College’s requirements on safeguarding.

The background checks will be carried-out in accordance with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Code of Practice. The DBS helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups including children. We operate in accordance with the DBS Code of Conduct and Privacy Policy. You can access both of these documents at [link omitted].

MKC complies fully with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Code of Practice regarding the correct handling, storage, retention and disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure information and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a disclosure on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed.

Since the post for which you are applying may involve unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults it will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and amendments to the Exceptions Order and 2020. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children or young people.

Candidates who are preliminarily offered a position for such posts will be required to disclose details including final warnings or reprimands or convictions which are not protected as defined by the Exceptions Order and 2020 or any other matters that may be relevant to their suitability to work for the College including sanctions relating to work with children in any country outside of the UK.

Please note that the College is unable to consider an application further if the candidate declines to complete the Disclosure form.

As a proud user of the disability confident scheme the College is committed to equal opportunities and celebrates the diversity of staff and students. As part of our commitment to the scheme we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

To ensure the security of our college systems and protect personal / sensitive information all staff are now required to use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) should your application be successful. This mandated security measure helps reduce the risk of unauthorised access aligned to our cyber security requirements. Should your application be successful MFA can be enabled using the Microsoft Authenticator app on your personal or college mobile device.

Alternatively you may request a Yubi Key a physical security key that plugs into your allocated laptop or desktop.