Student Safety Team Leader (Nights)

Lead with confidence. Keep our students safe.

Location: Sheffield

Contract Type: Permanent

Working hours: 42.5 hours, working 5 days out of 7 from Monday - Sunday, between the hours of 10pm and 7am.

Salary: £33, 458 + bonus + benefits

As a Student Safety Team Leader, you`ll play a key part in keeping our students and buildings safe, comfortable, and welcoming throughout the night. You`ll oversee the night operations across multiple properties, support your team to deliver brilliant service, and step up to manage incidents calmly and effectively. You`ll work closely with Student Safety Manager and your peers across the cluster, making a real impact every day. Every shift brings something different from coaching and supporting your team across multiple sites, to managing emergencies or stepping in as the duty manager. You`ll balance leadership with hands-on problem-solving, keeping things running smoothly and your team feeling supported every step of the way

Your impact

Whilst no two days are the same at Unite Students, here`s a flavour of what you`ll be responsible for in this role:

• Lead and support the Student Safety Team to deliver a safe, consistent, and caring environment.
• Provide line management and leadership to your team - conducting performance reviews, managing attendance, conduct, and performance, and supporting their growth and development.
• Be responsible for setting objectives, creating rotas, and managing holidays to ensure effective cover and operational excellence.
• Contribute to cluster performance by delivering key business KPIs.
• Act as the point of escalation for incidents and ensure every situation is managed calmly, professionally, and with care.
• Conduct safety patrols, respond to emergencies, and ensure our buildings are secure and compliant.
• Maintain accurate Excel handovers, respond to overnight emails, and ensure smooth communication between teams.
• Keep our spaces clean, tidy, and well-maintained - taking pride in every detail.
• Collaborate with the day and night teams to ensure a seamless student experience across shifts.

Your background

You don`t need to fit a box or follow a traditional path - what matters most is your mindset. We`re looking for curiosity, openness to learning, and the drive to make a difference. Whether you`re solving problems, leading change, or supporting our students day-to-day, it`s your attitude and approach that will help shape something bigger.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Bring a people-focused, supportive approach to leadership.
• Be able to guide and motivate others, even in challenging moments.
• Stay composed and solutions-focused in fast-moving or high-pressure situations.
• Have previous experience managing a team, including supporting performance, wellbeing, and development.
• Preferably, have previous experience in customer service, residential, safety, or security roles - but this isn`t essential. What`s most important is your ability to connect, act with integrity, and keep others safe.
• Hold a valid UK/EU driving licence.

Why it`s great to work with US!

In this values-led organisation, you`ll do work that makes a difference, helping to shape welcoming, vibrant communities where students can thrive. Whether this is your first step or your next one, we`ll help you build skills, confidence and a career you`re proud of.

We believe that everyone thrives when they`re able to bring the best version of themselves to work. So, alongside a competitive salary, we`ve built a culture and a reward package to support you in bringing your full, authentic self to work, including:

• A performance-related bonus paid twice a year
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 extra days and earn up to 5 additional days for long service (FTE equivalent)
• A generous pension scheme where contributions between 4% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Life assurance worth 4 times your salary
• Share save scheme giving you access to purchase Unite Students shares at a discounted rate
• Enhanced Family Leave - including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Medicash (Health Cash Plan) - access to claim back the cost of routine medical care, such as dental, optical, physio, etc.
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to ensure that you`re supported as much as possible when you need it
• Free volunteering day per year to make a difference!
• Access to our online platform that provides access to a range of retail and hospitality services at a discounted premium

There`s even more to enjoy - find the full benefits package on our careers page.

Alongside all these great benefits to support you, we also want to ensure that we`re supporting your family too. You`ll also have access to 20% student rent at any of our direct let properties for your children, siblings, their children, or any student of depends on you!

Once you`ve joined US, you`ll also gain access to an extensive suite of essential learning to get you ready to take on your day to day, as well as wider catalogue to explore and elevate yourself and your career!

If you`re expecting ordinary, then think again. We`re US, we`re different - and we`re proud of it. How far you could go? Join US and find out.