Assistant Disability Adviser

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About this role: The Disability Service is looking for an enthusiastic individual to join its team of professional and dynamic Assistant Disability Advisers. The role is full time and fixed term until January 2025.

You will be responsible for provision of specialist advice, guidance and support to disabled students to reduce and remove barriers to accessing learning and teaching. You will provide front line advice and support to disabled students, students with long term medical conditions and mental health conditions on a range of issues including funding and reasonable adjustments. This will include undertaking face to face appointments as well as offer email and telephone advice. You will work collaboratively with students, academic staff, other professional services staff and external partners to develop plans and reasonable adjustments.

About you: We are looking for someone who has experience of providing advice and information to students/customers/service users and who can work effectively with colleagues and external stakeholders to achieve the desired outcomes for disabled students. You will have excellent organisational skills in a professional or specialist service in a large complex organisation and the ability to remain calm and prioritise when responding to differing complex enquiries.

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in Bristol , one of the UK’s most exciting and forward-thinking cities, we are regionally embedded and globally connected, with an established network of employer and academic partners.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.

Add your individuality to ours

UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community .

We are proud to be part of a vibrant, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we’re always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving. Bring your talent and ambition to our growing community and find yourself in a stimulating and supportive environment where you’ll thrive.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Multiple Heritage or Other Minority Ethnic candidates as we are currently under-represented in these areas within UWE Bristol, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact Zoe Bell on [email protected]

Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay campus.

This is a full-time, fixed-term post until 31 January 2025, working 37 hours per week.

This post is not available on a job share basis.

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based and you will be expected to be available to work on campus to meet the business need. There is opportunity to work from home some of the time, in line with agreement with your manager and this may change depending on the needs of the service.

To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University’s salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.

Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to provide your right to work documents at your interview. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable.

Please note that UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.

Advice to applicants

We’d love to hear from you – if you are excited about joining us at UWE please complete our application form as soon as possible.

Tell us about how your skills and experience relate to the requirements of this role by describing how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the Job Description, and include specific examples wherever possible.

Once we have completed shortlisting we will let you know the outcome of your application by email, so please check your inbox for updates.