Job Description

About us

Student and Registry Services are responsible for providing services to all students throughout their time at UCL and for supporting academic departments and administrative staff in delivering a high quality student experience. We also play a key role in co-ordinating UCL\'s governance processes and academic quality assurance operations.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/about-us

UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services (SSW) provides information, advice and welfare support for all registered students, including delivery of related student events. The UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Team (Disability Mental Health and Wellbeing) is responsible for the delivery of advice and support aimed to enable students who identify as disabled to thrive and succeed at UCL.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/our-services/student-support-and-wellbeing

About the role

The Disability and Specific Learning Difficulty Team are part of the core SSW team who respond to student wellbeing enquiries and crisis management, ensuring a coordinated and holistic approach to supporting students who may be at health, safety or academic risk.

The Student Support and Wellbeing Manager (Disability and Specific Learning Difficulties) leads on the delivery of disabled student support within UCL, ensuring that the team of Advisers provide advice and support to disabled students and prospective students and those who may be affected by wellbeing and/or mental health difficulties. They work closely with the wider UCL community to ensure that disabled student support is holistic, promote inclusive teaching and learning practices, and foster a welcoming environment for disabled students.

The postholder will lead on complex cases and on developing the service, assessing current processes, feedback and university wide initiatives, making changes where needed to improve the student experience. They will act as a liaison and also guide students in communicating with external agencies responsible for providing disabled student support, including access centers, equipment and assistive technology providers and Student Loans Company.

We are currently in process of updating this role from a maternity cover role to a permanent position.

If you have any queries about the role, please contact Louise Grimmett at: l.grimmett@ucl.ac.uk

About you

Applicants must have significant knowledge and understanding of UK disability legislation and legislation relating specifically to mental health. You will have experience of working within higher education and/or an understanding of the support available to students within higher education, together with previous experience of working with adults and/or young people who identify as disabled. Applicants must have proven supervisory experience and must be adept at managing a large and demanding workload in a busy environment. Additionally, the role requires someone experienced in implementing policy and strategic plans and of undertaking reviews of business processes.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London\xe2\x80\x99s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world\xe2\x80\x99s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL\xe2\x80\x99s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; people with disabilities; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/

Available documents

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