My clinent is looking to recruit a Disabilty Advisor to join their campus. The Ideal candidate will ideally have proven experience within an educational institution. Purpose of the post: To provide expert advice and support on disability matters to students and staff. To act as a College disability specialist, working collaboratively with students using the social model of disability. To support students in their study, promoting independence and autonomy while maintaining a boundaried and professional approach to helping. To advise and collaborate with individuals and groups, as appropriate, on wider issues around inclusion and accessibility within the College. Main Duties and Responsibilities: Disability Advice * Establish, deliver and monitor high quality, expert advice and support for post graduate taught and research students with disabilities, including mental health and general health conditions. * Provide information on how to implement support both through Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) and internally. * Ensure that appropriate anticipatory adjustments and any specific requirements arising from the individual DSA Needs Assessment (and/or other medical or diagnostic evidence), are accessible to the student, including the provision of study skills tutors, support workers, etc as appropriate. * Successfully resolve potentially complex individual support challenges including reasonable adjustments and securing additional funding, including charitable funding by working collaboratively with colleagues and external agencies. * To undertake in-house Needs Assessments for international and other non-DSA funded students. * To support and provide feedback to students who undertake diagnostic assessments and needs assessments, ensuring an agreement on confidentiality. * Establish, agree on, and coordinate Inclusion Plans when arranging support for students. Work closely with programme staff to ensure the implementation of support and make reasonable adjustments within a department to support a student’s needs. * Act as a key point of contact for students experiencing mental health difficulties, working flexibly with the Mental Health Coordinator to support students in crisis and coordinate responses across the campus. * Advise individuals and groups across the College on accessibility and inclusion issues. Deliver disability awareness and disseminate information on support available for disabled students to academic departments across the College. * Oversee effective and reliable records on all disabled students and ensure effective arrangements around confidentiality. General Advice * Provide advice and continuing support for students to interpret their enquiries, understand any underlying issues and help students take action to find resolution. * Refer students sensitively and professionally to other specialist sources of support both within the College and externally as appropriate. * Actively develop and manage our web pages and intranet together with other supporting sources of information. * Work with colleagues in the Student Support team to ensure a consistent and appropriate presence across all sites. * Undertake any other duties as reasonably required by the Head of Student Experience and Success Person Specification Essential characteristics of the postholder: * Knowledge and understanding of student disability issues including an up-to-date understanding the Equality Act and other relevant legislation and frameworks, specifically, the College's responsibilities within these areas. * Experience working in a Higher Education support service setting. * Experience and working knowledge of the Disabled Students’ Allowance. * Ability to communicate effectively and enthusiastically with wide range of people, including in challenging situations, for example; working with people with complex and sensitive conditions. * Strong networking skills to work sensitively with individuals (including senior members of staff) and teams to ensure the best possible provision of seamless and coherent support for disabled students within available resources. * Ability to use high level creative and problem-solving skills, in particular to manage complex decisions in responding to the needs of disabled students. * Able to consistently demonstrate a high level of self-motivation and an initiative-taking approach. * Ability to empathise and work effectively and sensitively with students in difficulty. * Excellent team working skills and a friendly and open attitude to working with others. * Excellent administrative and IT skills including experience of working with complex systems. * Excellent organisational and time management skills and the ability to use initiative to work independently. * Excellent customer service skills