Head of Disability Support

The College 
 
At Durham College we’re pleased with our individuals.  A globally excellent centre of academic excellence, a collegiate neighborhood of extraordinary individuals, a singular and historic setting – Durham is a college like no different. We consider that inspiring our individuals to do excellent issues at Durham permits Durham individuals to do excellent issues professionally and personally.   

Throughout the College we’ve an enormous number of roles and profession alternatives, which collectively make us a big and profitable neighborhood, which is a key hub of exercise inside our area and nationally.  We’d be thrilled when you would contemplate becoming a member of our thriving College. Additional details about the College will be discovered right here

The Incapacity Assist Service

The Incapacity Assist Service is a part of the Pupil Assist and Wellbeing Directorate throughout the Faculties and Pupil Expertise Division.  Incapacity Assist is a College-wide service offering specialist recommendation and steerage for disabled college students and employees working with disabled college students, whether or not that’s tutorial associated or in one other supportive capability.

The Head of Incapacity Assist position

The Head of Incapacity Assist leads the College’s efforts to offer an accessible and inclusive pupil expertise for disabled college students. That is completed via the management of a multi-disciplinary crew who, in partnerships with Tutorial Departments and Faculties, decide affordable changes in order that college students with disabilities are totally built-in into the educational lifetime of the College and may profit from all components of the broader pupil expertise. This work incorporates management and supply of the Incapacity Assist Service. The Head is accountable for growing technique and route for the College’s engagement with disabled college students, together with making a major contribution to the supply of an inclusive method to studying and educating. The Head can also be accountable for the executive features of the Workplace together with directing and supervising employees, managing budgets and earnings era. 

The Head ensures that coaching, technical help and consulting providers are delivered to employees and college students together with affordable changes, inclusive studying and educating practices in addition to info relating to the legislative framework for disabled individuals. 

The Head works collaboratively with different key stakeholders together with tutorial employees, School employees and pupil consultant teams. That is each casual and formal via membership of the suitable College governance Committees the place points affecting disabled persons are thought of.

As a key member of the broader Pupil Assist and Wellbeing Directorate administration crew, the Head is predicted to contribute to wider methods and initiatives that improve the help for college kids throughout the College. This consists of offering professional management, recommendation and steerage, representing the Directorate/College externally, actively collaborating in related committees, and staying forward of sector developments and finest practices.  The Head can even deputise for the Director of Pupil Assist & Wellbeing, as required.
 
Additional details about the position and the tasks is on the backside of this job description. 
 
Working at Durham  
 
A aggressive wage is just one a part of the various incredible advantages you’ll obtain when you be a part of the College: additionally, you will obtain entry to the next incredible advantages:  
 
•    30 Days annual go away per yr along with 8 public holidays and 4 customary days per yr – a complete of 42 days per yr.   
•    The College closes between Christmas and New Yr.
•    We provide a beneficiant pension scheme, As a brand new member of employees you’ll be  robotically enrolled  into this College Superannuation Scheme (USS).
•    Regardless of the way you journey to work, we’ve you coated.  We have now ample parking throughout campus, a cycle to work scheme which lets you purchase a motorcycle and low cost with native bus and practice corporations. 
•    There’s a real dedication to growing our colleagues professionally and personally.  There’s a complete vary of growth programs, apprenticeships and entry to {qualifications} and routes to develop your profession within the College.  All employees have devoted annual time to focus on their private growth alternatives.  
•    Numerous help for well being and wellbeing together with discounted membership for our state-of-the-art sport and gymnasium amenities and entry to a 24-7 Worker Help Programme. 
•    On web site nursery is obtainable and entry to vacation camps for youngsters aged 5-16 all year long.
•    Household pleasant insurance policies, together with maternity and adoption go away, that are among the many most beneficiant within the greater schooling sector (and sure above and past many employers). 
•    The chance to participate in employees volunteering actions to make a distinction in the area people 
•    Reductions can be found by way of our advantages portal together with; cash off at supermarkets, excessive road retailers, IT merchandise equivalent to Apple, the cinema and days out at varied points of interest.  
•    A wage sacrifice scheme can also be out there that can assist you reap the benefits of tax financial savings on advantages.  
•    In case you are transferring to Durham, we can assist with elimination prices and we’ve a devoted crew who can assist you with the practicalities equivalent to home searching and faculties.  In the event you want a visa, we cowl most visa prices and provide an curiosity free mortgage scheme to pay for dependant visas. 
 

Durham College is dedicated to equality, variety and inclusion

Our collective purpose is to create an open and inclusive atmosphere the place everybody can attain their full potential and we consider our employees ought to mirror the range of the worldwide neighborhood wherein we work.   As a College equality, variety, and inclusion (EDI) are a key a part of the College’s Technique and a central a part of all the things we do.  We additionally stay by our values and our Employees Code of Conduct.  At Durham we actively work in the direction of offering an atmosphere the place our employees and college students can examine, work and stay in a neighborhood which is supportive and inclusive. It’s necessary to us that each one of our colleagues are aligned to each our values and dedication to EDI. 
 
We welcome and encourage functions from members of teams who’re under-represented in our work drive together with individuals with disabilities, ladies and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.  You probably have taken outing of your profession, and you are feeling it related, tell us about it in your software.  In case you are a candidate with a incapacity, we’re dedicated to making sure truthful therapy all through the recruitment course of. We are going to make changes to help the interview course of wherever it’s affordable to take action and, the place profitable, affordable changes will probably be made to help individuals inside their position.

What you should display while you apply/Particular person Specification  
  
If you apply it’s important that you just tell us what abilities/expertise you might have from the same position and/or what abilities/expertise you might have which might make you proper for this position.  Additional details about the position and tasks is on the finish of this job description.  The place a standards has an asterisk* subsequent to it, it could be given extra weighting when your software is taken into account.    
  
Your software ought to cowl the next standards:  

Important Standards

{Qualifications}/Expertise

1.     Educated to diploma degree (or equal expertise). 

2.     An expert qualification in Incapacity Research, Social Work, Increased Training Administration, Developmental Training, Counselling, Psychology, Particular Training, or a associated space.

3.     Skilled practitioner with substantial expertise in offering management and administration of incapacity help providers inside a big complicated organisation.

4.     Skilled data of a variety of disabilities and their impression upon college students to affect service supply, occasions and actions throughout the organisation.

5.     Distinctive abilities in partaking and prioritising enterprise necessities from senior stakeholders, with glorious interpersonal skills for negotiation and affect.

6.     Expertise of main a multi-disciplinary crew and a confirmed skill to encourage confidence in others in relation to incapacity help points.

7.     Expertise of collaborating in inner or exterior networks to share and talk about good observe, develop robust and productive working relationships and positively affect the College’s repute.

8.     Expertise of implementing insurance policies and procedures and supporting service enhancements.

9.     Observe report of cross-functional administration and growth expertise and/or an enhanced administration qualification utilized throughout a big service crew or groups.

10.  Intensive data and expertise of guaranteeing compliance with regulatory and organisational coverage and tips.

11.  Potential to contribute to planning at operational and strategic ranges.

12.  Potential to resolve issues and resolve on and plan applicable options.

Fascinating Standards

13.  NADP Accredited Member or Senior Accredited Member or related accreditation

How you can apply 
 
To progress to the evaluation stage, candidates should proof every of the important standards required for the position within the particular person specification above. It is going to be on the discretion of the recruiting panel as to whether or not they can even contemplate any fascinating standards, however we might urge candidates to offer proof for all standards.  Please don’t neglect to test if there’s any weighted standards (see above). 
 
Whereas some standards will probably be thought of on the shortlisting stage, different standards could also be thought of later within the evaluation course of, equivalent to questions at interview.    
 
Submitting your software  
 
We favor to obtain functions on-line.   We are going to replace you about your software at varied factors all through the choice course of, by way of automated emails from our e-recruitment system. Please test your spam/junk folder periodically to ensure you haven’t missed any of our updates. 
 
What you should submit 
 
•    A CV: and    
•    A supporting assertion which outlines the way you meet the entire standards throughout the Particular person Specification.     
 

Contact particulars    
 
For a chat in regards to the position or any additional info please contact Sam Dale, Director of Pupil Assist and Wellbeing, [email protected].
 

Typical Function Necessities  

Service Supply/Improvement

·         Present a dedication to equality, variety and inclusion and the College’s values.

·         Oversee and handle skilled and regulatory requirements and insurance policies referring to actions carried out by Incapacity Assist.

·         Use your management and administration experience to implement any important adjustments within the optimum manner, in collaboration with different senior managers and specialists.

·         Lead on the event of recent areas of labor or actions together with scoping, planning and implementing any adjustments to realize the outcomes anticipated by senior colleagues.

·         Search for modern methods to repeatedly enhance the providers offered to your stakeholders.

·         Develop and implement new or improved insurance policies, processes and requirements.

·         Use your skilled data and expertise as a incapacity specialist to resolve issues, form processes and actions, develop programs and to offer subject material experience and recommendation.  Utilise IT programs successfully to offer the very best service for stakeholders.

·         Assist high quality and regulatory audits to make sure that system and processes are working in an optimum and compliant manner.

·         Present specialist perception that allows information pushed choices to be made about Incapacity Assist.

·         Make sure that Incapacity Assist is delivered in a manner that helps the broader pupil expertise

·         Design and ship actions that generate exterior earnings.

Planning and Organisation

·         Use your experience to assist develop strategic plans and enterprise plans that cowl a variety of operational actions.

·         Outline what must be achieved in order that different colleagues can scope, plan and implement giant scale/College vast initiatives equivalent to the brand new Pupil Assist Mannequin and the underpinning Pupil Assist Info and Administration System.

·         Use your management experience to assist challenge groups perceive what must be achieved, remedy any issues which can be encountered and hold implementation plans on monitor.

·         Allocate and monitor designated budgets, expenditure and sources.

Management and Group Improvement

·         Set operational and strategic aims and use your management and administration abilities, to develop the individuals in your crew(s) and guarantee excessive requirements of efficiency.

·         Assist form the abilities and experience wanted to ship knowledgeable service by recruiting, inducting and coaching crew members and structuring your crew(s) in manner that can finest meet operational and strategic priorities.

·         Make sure that your crew can ship the required providers by delegating tasks to applicable crew members and contemplating succession plans.

·         Perform common efficiency opinions with colleagues to offer suggestions on aims and establish any growth wants.

·         Deal with most HR points and help the welfare and wellbeing of your crew, taking recommendation on extra complicated points to specialist providers or senior managers.

Communication/Liaison

·         Lead inner and exterior conferences and committees to affect College coverage, requirements and governance.

·         Construct and lead an influential community of inner and exterior contacts to extend your data and abilities, swap info with friends and use that info to enhance and develop Incapacity Assist.

·         Determine alternatives to construct relationships with exterior organisations to help the supply of strategic degree aims.

·         Analysis new approaches being taken by inner and exterior stakeholders equivalent to NADP, OfS, UUK, AMOSSHE, with the intention to take these insights under consideration when growing Incapacity Assist.

·         Discover choices to advertise the College’s repute and enhance engagement in occasions and actions being delivered by Incapacity Assist.

·         Some other affordable duties.

     
Please notice that in submitting your software Durham College will probably be processing your information. We’d ask you to think about the related College Privateness Assertion Privateness Notices – Durham College  which supplies info on the collation, storing and use of information.

When appointing to this position the College should make sure that it meets any relevant immigration necessities, together with wage thresholds that are relevant to some visas.