Kerja Sepenuh Masa, AccessAbility Officer (Part Time) di James Cook University - Maukerja

We are seeking a motivated and compassionate individual to join our team as an AccessAbility Officer. This role supports students who require additional assistance to fully participate in their studies.

Key Responsibilities

• Review documentation and recommendations provided by appropriately qualified practitioners and work with the student and relevant University staff to develop, implement and review an AccessAbility Plan.
• Identify reasonable educational adjustments that respond to the documented impact on the student’s studies and are consistent with University policies, academic requirements and available resources.
• Seek clarification or additional documentation where the information provided is unclear or insufficient to support a proposed adjustment.
• Enhancing staff and student knowledge and capability to support students with a disability, injury, or health condition by increasing awareness of equity considerations and facilitating training, workshops, and educational initiatives on reasonable adjustments.
• Continually improve service delivery through strategic policy development, service enhancement initiatives, and ongoing review of processes to ensure alignment with University policies and student needs.
• Developing and maintaining consultative and collaborative working relationships with educators and those supporting student success across the University

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in occupational therapy, Psychology, Social Work, Education, Disability Studies, Counselling, or another closely related discipline.
• 3–5 years of experience in accessibility services, education, student support or a comparable environment.
• Experience supporting people with physical disabilities, chronic health conditions, mental health conditions, neurodiversity, sensory impairments, and learning difficulties.
• Professional registration is not required as this is not a clinical, diagnostic or therapeutic role.
• A postgraduate qualification in disability, rehabilitation, psychology, counselling, special/inclusive education or a related field would be advantageous.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced work environment using high-level organisational, problem-solving, communication and administrative skills.
• The internal title of the role would be AccessAbility Advisor
• This role is Part Time fixed term contract position (Approximately 20 hours per week)