The role of the Academic Coordinator to Support Inclusion

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The role of the Academic Coordinator to Support
Inclusion Claire Owens School of Health Nursing
and Midwifery
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Overview

• Context
• Overview of Coordinator Role
• Application Issues
• Challenges Opportunities

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School Context
UWS Equality Diversity Strategy UWS Disability
Equality Scheme
NMC Professional Body

• Legislative Framework incl
• DDA 1995 2005
• SENDA 2001
• Statutory Instrument No1721 DDA 1995 (Amendment)
  (FHE) Regulations 2006
• DRC 2007 CoP (Revised) for Providers of Post-16
  Education
•  DRC 2004 CoP Employment
• DRC 2007 Formal Investigation

School commitment to equality, diversity
inclusiveness
Ethics Student Rights Professional
Responsibilities
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School Philosophy

• The School of HNM believes that education and
  practitioner diversity are central to achieving
  quality of nursing and Midwifery care
• Managing diversity within the School involves
  active promotion of an inclusive learning
  social environment and the valuing of difference
  in all its forms

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Aims

• Embed principles of inclusiveness make
  transparent in all policies and processes
• Provide a welcoming supportive culture that
  promotes accessibility and equal opportunities to
  the learning social environment
• Promote confidence knowledge of their rights as
  a student and employee
• Promote respect knowledge of client diversity,
  their needs, rights and the associated
  practitioner responsibilities

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Role of the Coordinator
Associate Dean (Teaching Learning)
Coordinator

• Liaison with the Enabling Support Service
  (Student Services)
• Liaison with Other Schools
• Student Liaison
• Staff Liaison
• Staff Development

• School Policies
• Procedures
• Learning Teaching
• and Curriculum
• Development

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Striving for InclusivenessEquality Diversity

• Building Partnerships with
• Student body individual students
• School staff
• School Admin Enabling Support Coordinator
• Lecturers Administration staff
• Programme Leaders Module Coordinators
• Project leads
• Managers
• ES Advisors Support Workers Coordinator
• Other School Coordinators
• Exams Unit
• Estates Buildings staff
• Health Safety
• Occupational Health Occupational therapy

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Role Application Issues (1)

• Equality Diversity Awareness (Staff)
• Confidence, Fitness for Practice, Commitment
• Access(programmes)
• Marketing,
• Recruitment, Selection Admission,
• Competence Standards,
• Reasonable Adjustments
• Fitness for Practice

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Role Application Issues (2)

• Student support
• Disclosure
• Referral individual Adjustments
• School support mechanisms eg Pathways to Success,
  Personal Tutor system, PBL mentor, link lecturer,
  PEF
• Teaching Learning
• Competence standards, content, strategies,
  assessment, accessibility flexibility, PBL

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Role Application Issues (3)

• Evaluation
• Equality Impact Assessment

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Challenges Opportunities

• Consistency between campuses
• Student involvement
• Disclosure
• Development of the nursing midwifery
• Development of the quality of care and provision
• Getting it wrong but getting it right the next
  time.