The University’s Student Life provision brings together a range of support services including counselling, mental health and well-being, learning support (disability), and student finance. This role sits within a well-established learning/disability support service.

The Learning Support Team are one of the first and ongoing points of contact for both current and prospective students with a broad range of disabilities, learning differences and enduring health/mental health conditions, some of which are of a complex nature.

We are seeking to appoint a Senior Learning Support Adviser who will be responsible for the effective day-to-day operational delivery of a busy learning/disability support service. The successful candidate will provide line management to a small team of Learning Support Advisers and take a lead role in providing specialist advice, guidance and consultation on disability-related matters to team colleagues, senior management, and academic colleagues from the wider university community.

Taking on a caseload, the Senior Learning Support Adviser will assist with the delivery of service appointments and other direct work with prospective and current students, particularly those with support needs of a complex nature.

Experience of line management and managing the performance of a team providing advice and assistance to clients with a range of disability needs in an education setting is a key requirement of this role. Alongside this, experience of assessing risk and completing risk assessments and Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) for disabled students is also essential.

The ideal candidate will have a proactive, solution-oriented approach and possess excellent leadership and organisational skills, with the ability to liaise across a wide range of stakeholders to facilitate effective disability support within the University.

Interviews provisionally scheduled to take place: Wednesday 12^th July 2023

This post is permanent, subject to the normal 12-month probationary period.