Job title Dignity & Respect Liaison & Resolution Officer
Department Student Support and Safeguarding
Salary Starting from £37,999, rising to £45,163
Grade Grade 7
Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended
Placed on Tuesday 01 October 2024
Closing date Tuesday 22 October 2024
Interview date Thursday 07 November 2024
Reference CC12106
Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)
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The role of Dignity & Respect Liaison & Resolution Officer holds a lead responsibility for managing key aspects of Dignity & Respect and Student Casework issues that involve student safeguarding.
About the roleThe landscape of safeguarding in education has undergone significant changes in recent years, responding to emerging challenges and evolving needs. Safeguarding now encompasses a broad range of issues, especially in higher education, such as preventing sexual harassment, hate crimes, and promoting better mental health.
As students' experiences become more diverse, this role will seek to create and enhance our environment at the university where both students and staff feel safe and supported and to address inclusivity, discrimination, and the unique challenges within a higher education setting.
You will:
We're looking for excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to build trust, show empathy, and manage complex and challenging situations with sensitivity. You should have solid experience in helping people resolve conflicts, understand different perspectives, and improve relationships and behaviour through learning and growth.
A good understanding of issues in higher education, equality and diversity, and resolution-based approaches is essential. Experience with trauma-informed investigations would be an advantage.
Qualifications or training in mental health, trauma-informed practices, sexual misconduct, or suicide prevention are helpful but not essential, as training can be provided.
Further informationFor an informal conversation about the role please contact Elisabeth Day, Deputy Director (Student Policy & Safeguarding) on [email protected].
What we can offer youFind out more about our benefits.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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Further details:Job Description & Person Specification
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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.