Disability Practitioner

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Disability Practitioner

The Student Disability Service is seeking to appoint a Disability Practitioner to support the information, guidance and support offered to disabled students. The post holder will provide initial consultations to provide information and guidance and provide direct response to support issues, escalating more complex cases to the Disability Advisers.

The post holder will support students with Specific Learning Difficulty screening and assessments, assist in the development of support plans and work with all students with Disabled Students Allowance applications and support issues.  

You will be able to demonstrate professional knowledge of disability support and experience of working in higher education.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), fixed term for 12 months (maternity cover).  The post is available from the 15th April 2024.

Salary: £32,332 - £34,980 per annum (Grade 5)

Important: Evidencing Criteria

We use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet all of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable. As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement.

Please ensure when submitting the supporting statement document / attaching it to your application profile you name it with the vacancy reference number.  

If candidates do not provide written evidence of meeting all of the essential criteria then their application will not be progressed. 

If you would like to know more about the role, informal enquiries can be made by contacting Bethan Griffiths, Senior Disability Adviser. Email address: [email protected] Tel: 029 20870149

Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 37 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pro rata for part time staff, local pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments up the pay scale, and more. It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.

Date advert posted: Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Closing date: Friday, 15 March 2024

Please be aware that Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Job Description

Key Duties

• Provide initial information and guidance on student disability support processes and procedures to internal and external customers, using judgement and creativity to provide resolutions or referral to appropriate services and teams, and ensuring complex and conceptual issues are understood.
• Ensure the provision of the student disability service is delivered to the institution, resolving student support issues, assisting students with their DSA applications and escalating cases to Disability Advisers when necessary.
• Advise students with Specific Learning difficulties on screening and assessment arrangements and develop routine individual support plans.
• Investigate and analysis specific issues within disability, creating recommendation reports, supported by advances within disability.
• Collaborate with others in order to make recommendations for developments of established processes and procedures.
• Establish working relationships with key contacts, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Schools/Directorates and outside bodies as required.
• Create specific working groups from colleagues across the University to achieve departmental objectives.
• Develop and deliver training to disabled students within student disability support.
• Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department.
• Instruct and guide other employees across the University within disability support as required.

General Duties

• Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
• Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity.
• Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.

Person Specification

Important notice:

• It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable.
• As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement.
• Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined below.
• Your application will be considered based on the information you provide under each element.
• Guidance on how to apply can be found here: How to apply - Jobs - Cardiff University .

When attaching the supporting statement to your application profile, please ensure that you name it with the vacancy reference number, e.g. Supporting Statement for 18215BR.

Essential Criteria

Qualifications and Education

Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Substantial experience of working within higher education.

Able to demonstrate professional knowledge within disability support to give advice and guidance to internal and external customers.

Ability to set up standard office systems and procedures and make improvements as appropriate.

Customer Service, Communication and Team Working

Ability to communicate conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people.

Evidence of ability to explore customers’ needs and adapt the service accordingly to ensure a quality service is delivered.

Planning, Analysis and Problem solving

Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identifying and proposing practical solutions and resolving problems with range of potential outcomes.

Evidence of demonstrable knowledge of key advances within disability.

Evidence of ability to work unsupervised to deadlines, planning and setting priorities for own work and that of others and monitoring progress.

Other

A willingness to undertake further training and development.

Desirable Criteria

Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties.

Postgraduate/Professional qualification in a related field.

Experience of delivering disability advice services.

Fluency in Welsh, written and oral.

Job Category

Admin / Clerical, Business / Strategic Management, Technical