Residential Well-Being Support Specialist

Position Title: Residential Well-Being Support Specialist

Department: Residential Living

Advertised Pay: Single bedroom in an on-campus apartment        Village Meal Plan       $4,494 stipend for the academic year

Campus Location: Washburn University

Position Summary:

In collaboration and partnership with the graduate Clinical Psychology program and graduate Department of Social Work program, Residential Living is seeking graduate interns to serve as Residential Well-Being Support Specialists. In this role, graduate interns will support residential students both proactively and reactively around issues that impact their mental health. They will provide workshops and learning opportunities to explore ways to manage stress, anxiety, time management, and emotions. They will help individual students through concerns related to relationship conflicts, mental well-being, and stress related to being a college student.

About Washburn University: 

Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of just over 7,000 students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals.

Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a dynamic faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a robust learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.

Essential Functions:
- Meet with Residential Living students to provide support navigating their challenges, conflicts, or concerns.
- Lead group sessions for stress management, roommate conflict, relationships, anxiety, and depression as needed.
- Work collaboratively with the Residential Community Coordinators in supporting students within their buildings.
- Support RAs as peer leaders.
- Effectively use Navigate and Maxient software for case management and student support.
- Serve in the on-call rotation for Residential Living for a week at a time approximately every month.
- Participate in weekly meetings that may include: RA staff meetings, meetings with department-based clinical faculty, Res Living supervisor, Res Living team meetings.

Non-Essential Functions:
Attend residential community events.

Required Qualifications:
- Full-time Clinical Psychology or Social Work graduate students during the terms of employment.
- Bachelor’s Degree completed prior to job employment.
- Ability to work on a team and with all students living on campus.
- Previous customer service experience preferred.
- Experience and desire to work with college students.
- Experience in crisis response and support.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work successfully independently and effectively in a collaborative team environment.
- Ability to build and maintain professional relationships with all students living on campus who may possess a broad range of academic skills and goals.

Physical Requirements:
-Able to sit for long hours.
-Able to lift 5 to 25lbs.
-10-month position (Fall, Spring academic terms).
-Additional summer term is possible.

Special Instructions to Applicants: 

Stipend Monthly Exempt
Background Check Required

Public university offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs.