INTERVIEW DATE: MONDAY 23 JUNE 2025

The Student Inclusion Team provides advice, information and support to disabled applicants and students, and works with schools and other professional services to provide an accessible and inclusive environment. We are seeking a full-time Disability Adviser to work across City South and City Centre campuses. The role will suit someone with a strong interest in disability and equality in higher education (HE), with experience of assessing the support needs of disabled students in HE and implementing support.
Working alongside fellow Disability Advisers and a range of experienced professionals in the team, you will provide advice and information to disabled students and applicants, assess support needs, implement support, assist with Disabled Students’ Allowances applications, represent the team at student recruitment events and liaise with disabled students’ support workers and external stakeholders. You will also provide advice and consultancy to colleagues across the University and deliver training on disability support and inclusive practice.
There will be an opportunity for a mixture of campus-based and home-based working - 3 days minimum required on campus.

The primary responsibilities of this role are:

• Manage a caseload and communicate with other support staff to provide advice, guidance and support to prospective and current disabled students on the support services and facilities within the University.
• Provide advice, information and guidance to staff across the University to facilitate learning support for prospective and current disabled students.
• Facilitate and help monitor student applications for Disabled Students’ Allowances and other funding, liaising with relevant internal staff and external organisations.
• Promote inclusive teaching and assessment and participate in the delivery of staff training and awareness-raising.
• Participate in relevant internal and external meetings and be a member of the National Association of Disability Practitioners (NADP) and other appropriate professional organisations.
• Ensure your professional practice adheres to the NADP Code of Practice for members and be prepared to acquire NADP accreditation if not already achieved.

You will be educated to degree level or equivalent, have experience of assessing needs and providing support within Further or Higher Education, experience in managing a significant caseload and accurate record keeping, have previous disability awareness / equality training and knowledge and understanding of study support for disabled students.
The Student Inclusion Team sits within Student Services, working alongside the Mental Health and Wellbeing Team, the Money and Childcare Advice Team and Student Governance. We believe universal design benefits everyone – come and work in a friendly, supportive and professional team towards our vision of inclusion for all.
At Birmingham City University we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All staff are expected to understand and enact the University’s commitment to ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion in our employment practice and in all that we do. This commitment is enshrined in our Core Values and is detailed in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Employment Policy. The University values and celebrates the diversity of our staff and students; we welcome people from the many different backgrounds and life experiences that reflect the students and the citizens we serve. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and actively encourage unique contributions, in particular from under-represented groups in respect of age, disability, sex, gender or gender identity, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or transgender status.

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At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.

• Manage a caseload and communicate with other support staff to provide advice, guidance and support to prospective and current disabled students on the support services and facilities within the University.
• Provide advice, information and guidance to staff across the University to facilitate learning support for prospective and current disabled students.
• Facilitate and help monitor student applications for Disabled Students’ Allowances and other funding, liaising with relevant internal staff and external organisations.
• Promote inclusive teaching and assessment and participate in the delivery of staff training and awareness-raising.
• Participate in relevant internal and external meetings and be a member of the National Association of Disability Practitioners (NADP) and other appropriate professional organisations.
• Ensure your professional practice adheres to the NADP Code of Practice for members and be prepared to acquire NADP accreditation if not already achieved