Accommodation Consultant

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**Job Requisition ID**:
2025-00740

**Time Type**:
Full time

**Employee Group**:
Staff

**Job Category**:
Medical Health and Wellness

**Employment Type**:
Temporary

**Department**:
AccessAbility Services - Student Accommodations I

**Hiring Range**:
$71,827.90 - $89,784.87

**Posting Information**:
This position is a temporary contract, Term 1 year.

**Primary Purpose**

The Accommodation Consultant is accountable to the Senior Accommodation Consultant for the clinical assessment, development and implementation of individualized academic accommodation plans for students with disabilities, conditions and/or trauma, registered with AccessAbility Services, based on individual assessments. The Accommodation Consultant is a Subject Matter Expert on Academic Accommodations as it relates to the University community, overseeing compliance and mitigating risk, with the University’s responsibilities under the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC) and its regulations. The incumbent assesses medical documentation and psycho-educational assessments and conducts clinical interviews with students registered with AccessAbility Services, to explore how the disability or disabling condition affects access to learning and the learning environment. The incumbent applies this information, in combination with Ministry requirements, provincial law, industry standards, and clinical judgement to design and facilitate an individualized accommodation plan that ensures the University of Waterloo is fulfilling its legal duty to accommodate. The Accommodation Consultant works closely with faculty to ensure academic accommodations are implemented, and to ensure accommodations uphold academic integrity and the essential requirements of a specific courses and/or program. Collaboration with other campus partners, including faculty, Academic Advisors, Career Advisors, Counselling Services, Health Services, Student Success Office and the Writing Centre is critical to providing holistic support to students.

**Key Accountabilities**

**Developing individualized academic accommodation plans**
- Reviewing and assessing student medical documentation and psycho-educational reports to assist in the development of an accommodation plan for students with mental health disabilities, learning disabilities, medical disabilities, acquired brain injuries, ADHD and trauma.
- Using medical documentation, clinical judgement and decision making, Ministry requirements, provincial legislation, and standards of practice to design appropriate and individualized academic accommodation plans on a temporary or ongoing basis
- Conducting bio-psycho-social interviews with students to determine how their functional limitations influence an academic need for accommodation
- Counselling students on academic accommodations as it relates to their disability
- Screening (for suspected disabilities learning disabilities, mental health and ADHD) and making referrals to appropriate services
- Ongoing clinical assessments of students to determine any changes in condition and accommodations requirements (such as academic recovery planning) as well any identification of any internal/external supports
- Reviewing course delivery to assess the impact the disability may have in accessing education
- Using clinical judgement and Ministry guidelines to assess student eligibility and verify need for specialized funding that supports accommodation
- Provides consultations with faculty to ensure accommodations are appropriate for the course/program. If accommodation interferes with the essential requirements of a course/program, the Accommodation Consultant will negotiate with instructors and students to determine an alternative accommodation that will ensure the needs of the students are met, while maintaining course/program integrity
- Suggesting modifications to faculty regarding curriculum, when deemed appropriate, in order to ensure material is accessible and that accommodations are upheld
- The consultant provides risk mitigation by ensuring accommodations are being implemented, as outlined in the OHRC
- Abiding by all legislative and university policies relevant to accommodations planning (e.g., AODA, Ontario Human Rights) and privacy legislation (PHIPA)

**Facilitate academic accommodations**
- Provide coordination between students, faculty, academic advisors/coordinators, and other campus partners regarding the provision of accommodations and student support
- Collaborate with AccessAbility Services Adaptive Technologist and Learnin