Disability Advisor (CC12152R)

Job title Disability Advisor

Department Student Support and Safeguarding

Salary Starting from £30,505, rising to £36,924

Grade Grade 6

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Monday 23 December 2024

Closing date Monday 13 January 2025

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference CC12152R

Special Conditions A DBS check is required for this position

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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Student Support & Safeguarding is seeking to appoint experienced professionals to this exciting role, with responsibility for providing disability related information and advice to students seeking guidance and support.

Working as part of the Disability Service you will provide high-quality advice and support to disabled students by assessing and identifying needs, recommending relevant and personalised reasonable adjustments that enable them to access their studies and remove barriers to their success. This will include assisting students to access specialist funded support such as Disabled Student Allowance (DSA) to help meet their individual support needs.

You will work collaboratively to co-ordinate support across a range of University professional services, academic departments and external agencies regarding disabled student cases, establishing and maintaining strong working relationships with colleagues to ensure effective signposting and referrals in response to risk, complex need or specialist services.

A significant proportion of your time will be spent conducting appointments with students. Most appointments will be in person (on University of Bath premises), although you will at times also meet with students remotely (especially during the pre-arrival period).

You will:

We currently have two full-time opportunities, working 36.5 hours per week:

The department offers hybrid working, with a requirement to undertake in- person engagement with our student cohort. However the exact number of days on campus each week may need to alter in relation to student demand through the year. The department supports flexible working requests and encourages these to be explored through the recruitment process, although the student-facing nature of this role and the requirement to provide a face-to-face service means that your days working on campus will need to be agreed and committed to as part of your team's overall operational planning.

For an informal discussion about this position please contact Susan Fielding, Disability Service Team Lead, via email at [email protected].

A Disclosure & Barring Service check will be required for this role.

Find 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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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.