Disability and Inclusive Practice Advisor

at  Lancaster University

This is a fixed-term post until August 2025 (Maternity cover).
Are you passionate about supporting students and looking for an opportunity to use your skills and experience to drive positive change at Lancaster University?
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Student Wellbeing Services team as a Disability and Inclusive Practice Adviser (Frontline). In this role, you will lead on support for disabled participants on the Frontline postgraduate Social Work programme alongside offering support for Lancaster-based students to ensure a positive, equitable experience, through providing an integrated and consistent approach to disability and promoting the development of inclusive practice.
The Disability and Inclusive Practice Service team assesses and coordinates the academic disability support requirements of over 3000 disabled students each year. Our aim is to put the student at the centre of our service delivery model. You will work in partnership with Frontline, the Social Work department, alongside other academic and professional services staff in faculties and academic departments to ensure discipline and disability-specific adjustments, interventions, training, and expert information, advice, and guidance are in place. The role involves substantial independent decision-making responsibilities and you are required to develop specialist knowledge in one or more nominated areas of expertise; support will be provided to enable you to develop this expertise. An understanding of Social Work education and practice education settings would be an advantage.
For more information on Frontline see Frontline – making social work better for children (thefrontline.org.uk).
Informal enquiries can be made to the Disability and Inclusive Practice Service Manager, Jess Walmsley j.m.walmsley@lancaster.ac.uk.

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