Are you passionate about supporting students through difficult situations?
Do you have experience assessing risk, responding to sensitive disclosures and exercising sound professional judgement? Are you committed to ensuring people are treated fairly, compassionately and consistently when concerns are raised?
Join us in helping to create a safe, inclusive and respectful University community.
About the role
As Student Conduct Lead, you'll play a key role in responding to reports and disclosures relating to student conduct, including harassment and sexual misconduct (HSM). You'll assess concerns, identify and manage risk, help students understand the options available to them and determine the most appropriate course of action.
Working with colleagues across the University, you'll coordinate an appropriate institutional response, including signposting students to support, facilitating early or informal resolution where appropriate and, where matters require formal investigation, ensuring a seamless transition into the University's formal case management process.
Alongside your operational responsibilities, you'll help shape policy, improve practice and use insight from emerging themes to strengthen the University's approach to prevention and early intervention.
Key Responsibilities:
For this role, you will need to be on site 3 days a week. Although we can accommodate working from home for this role, flexibility to be on-site will be expected due to business needs.
For an informal discussion to find out more about the role then please contact Laura Beahan: by email at laura.beahan@plymouth.ac.uk
What we’re looking for
For more information about the job and the person specification, please refer to the job description.
About us
We are a small, specialist team where collaboration and professional autonomy go hand in hand. Each member of the team leads on their own area of expertise while working closely together to deliver a joined-up service for students.
This role focuses on responding to reports and disclosures, assessing risk and determining the most appropriate response. Alongside this, our Student Training, Communications and Campaigns Specialist leads on prevention, awareness raising and student engagement, helping to build a culture of respect across our University community.
Whilst each role has a distinct focus, they work in close partnership to ensure concerns are responded to consistently, students are connected with the right support and preventative activity continues to strengthen our respectful University community.
Application Process
Please apply online, demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the knowledge, qualifications, training, skills and experience elements of the job description in your supporting statement.
Following the closing date of the vacancy, you will be notified on the outcome of your application in due course.
Our Offer
A successful external candidate for this position would be employed by the University of Plymouth Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Plymouth. Employees of the University of Plymouth Services Limited work alongside the University of Plymouth colleagues in delivery of Plymouth’s strategic vision, and will adopt the University of Plymouth’s HR policies and procedures in full unless otherwise stated.
We have a wide range of staff benefits available to employees, depending on eligibility:
A summary of our comprehensive benefits can be viewed here.
Additional Information
The University of Plymouth is building an inclusive and equitable university where everyone feels represented, supported, and empowered to thrive. Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion is guided by the Inclusive Institutions Framework, a strategic and externally validated approach that embeds these principles across the entire institution. To find out more please visit our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion webpages