Disability Support Advisor
Birmingham
JOB PURPOSE:
Are you passionate about supporting students with disabilities and learning differences? Join BPP as a Disability Support Advisor, where you’ll play a key role in ensuring students receive the support and adjustments they need to thrive.
In this role, you’ll work closely with the Learning Support Manager to provide tailored interventions, manage complex disability-related cases, and ensure compliance with GDPR and the Equality Act 2010. You’ll also collaborate with teams across BPP, arrange disability awareness training, and contribute to wider student welfare initiatives.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact, engaging with 30,000 students across 10 university centres and working with key internal and external stakeholders. If you're committed to fostering an inclusive learning environment and want to be part of a national student support network, we’d love to hear from you!
Why work for BPP?
It is a great time to join BPP as we have enjoyed a sustained period of growth, offering a wealth of opportunities to our staff, students and clients. There are many more great reasons to join BPP such as:
- Brilliantly, you can study any of BPP’s courses for free – be it a professional qualification or full degree.
- With hybrid working available, you’ll be able to split your time between one of our centres and wherever you choose to call home.
- We also provide a generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days, and there’s a rewards package that includes retail discounts, Group Personal Pension Plan, dedicated private healthcare and dental plans that offer additional assurance to look after you and your family.
What you’ll be doing
As a Disability Support Advisor, you will play a vital role in ensuring students with disabilities and learning differences receive the support they need to succeed. You will be the first point of contact for disability disclosures, responding in line with service level agreements and policies. Through student interviews and assessments, you will identify and implement appropriate reasonable adjustments, advocating for inclusive learning practices that promote student independence.
You will oversee and maintain accurate records of student entitlements, ensuring all adjustments align with Learning Support policies, teaching requirements and external funding mechanisms such as Disabled Students’ Allowances and Government Apprenticeship funding. Collaborating with Learning Support Administrators, you will ensure records are compliant with audit requirements and regularly updated.
Beyond individual student support, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of Learning Support strategies, promoting best practices and maintaining marketing materials to raise awareness of available services. You will also work closely with external stakeholders and internal teams to integrate inclusive practices across BPP, to enhance student inclusion and success. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in fostering an accessible and supportive learning environment.
What experience you’ll need
- Degree-qualified or an equivalent level, relevant professional qualification at degree level
- Resilient, confident and passionate about improving wellbeing and mental health, with an ability to sustain professional practice with warmth and integrity
- Excellent organisation, problem solving and time management skills, with an ability to engage a broad and diverse range of stakeholder groups.
- Experience of working with individuals with a wide range of learning difficulties and disabilities in an educational setting
- Understanding of the diverse support needs of the changing learner and academic community, enhancing the overall quality of the student experience and championing the service to others
- An understanding of implementing reasonable adjustments in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in an educational setting
- Experience and understanding of working with individuals with a range of disabilities, including but not limited to, mental health, sensory impairments, physical disability, and the autistic spectrum
- Familiarity with MS Office an excellent level of IT competency including MS Excel and experience of educational databases
- Excellent written and communication skills
BPP are a Disability Confident employer so if you need any reasonable adjustments for the interview process, please just let us know!
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to undergo a DBS and credit check.
BPP actively promotes equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates. BPP will select candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience. Please note that for those posts that are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check in addition to BPP undertaking any necessary online searches. This is deemed appropriate and necessary from a safeguarding perspective, and in line with BPP’s safer recruitment practices.
