Job Title: Disability and Inclusive Practice Advisers
Location: Lancaster
Salary: £29,605 to £36,024 pro rata per year
Job type: Full Time / Part Time, Fixed Term. (multiple roles available) Open to flexible working arrangements e.g. flexible start/finish times and blended remote/office working (typically four days on campus, one day working from home if desired).
Closing Date: Tuesday 28th November 2023.
Interview Date: Friday 08th December 2023.
Are you passionate about supporting students and looking for an opportunity to use your skills and experience to drive positive change at Lancaster University?
The Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Student Wellbeing Services team as a Disability and Inclusive Practice Adviser. In this role you will provide high-quality support for students disclosing a disability and help students to have positive, equitable experiences, through ensuring an integrated and consistent approach to disability and promoting the development of inclusive practice across all university departments.
The Disability and Inclusive Practice Service team assesses and coordinates the academic disability support requirements of over 3000 disabled students each year. Our aim is to put the student at the centre of our service delivery model. You will work in partnership with academic and professional services staff in faculties and academic departments to ensure discipline and disability specific adjustments, interventions, training and expert information, advice and guidance are in place. The role involves substantial independent decision-making responsibilities and Advisers are required to develop specialist knowledge in one or more nominated area of expertise; support will be provided to enable you to develop this expertise.
Due to investment in this team, we have multiple Disability and Inclusive Practice Adviser roles available, on a permanent full-time or part-time basis, and one additional fixed-term role available to support our partnership with Frontline to deliver their social work training programme (this role is fixed term to 2027 in the first instance
Extra Information:
Lancaster University is a Disability Confident Committed employer.
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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Disability Coordinator, Accessibility Services Coordinator, Disability Services Administrator, Inclusion and Accessibility Coordinator, Access Services Coordinator, Special Education Coordinator, Inclusion and Accessibility Advisor, will also be considered for this role.
