DR&C Team

DR&C Manager

• Creating and implementing an education, training, and awareness‐raising plan for staff and students.
• Engaging with external specialist services/agencies and disseminating relevant information.
• Assisting the University to establish and monitor, policies and procedures relating to allegations of bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct and any complaint under the Dignity and Respect and Sexual Misconduct policy involving staff and students and other categories of people at the University who are neither staff nor student.
• Implementing and monitoring institutional reporting systems, including the anonymous reporting system 'Speak Out'.
• Liaising with representatives of relevant institutional services, implementation committees and external specialist services/agencies.
• Keeping up to date with relevant national and international practice.
• Managing a small team of DR&C Support Advisors who will assist and support complainants and respondents where disclosures have been made under the Dignity and Respect Policy and Sexual Misconduct Policy.
• Assisting the institution in the processing of allegations or complaints under the Dignity and Respect policy involving staff or students. 
• Providing help and support to the Screening Panel who receive disclosures and complaints/concerns within the institution.
• Updating institutional Senior Management and collating data and statistical information for internal and external reports.

DR&C Support Advisors

• Providing impartial information and support around options in relation to resolving issues of a bullying, harassment nature and sexual misconduct.
• Supporting engagement in informal interventions if there is a desire to do so including the provision of information on mediation and liaising with the external mediation
  provider in the event that mediation is proceeding.
• Accompanying a reporting person to approach the person carrying out the alleged behaviour and potentially engaging with them if requested.
• Supporting and guiding the reporting person in making a formal complaint if they wish to do so.
• Accompanying complainants or respondents to investigation meetings (if requested to by the complainant or respondent) and providing after care support following a formal investigation process regardless of the outcome.
• Signposting and referring individuals to other appropriate support services both within the University and externally.
• Keeping accurate records to a safe, secure, professional, and ethical standard.
• Providing specialist advice to University and College employees/ students on individual cases of dignity and respect and sexual misconduct, including possible actions to ensure that employees and students feel safe and protected.
• Providing key support for the panel of Contact Persons and guide and advise as appropriate ensuring a high standard and consistency in delivery of support as well as championing of the panel.
• Liaising closely with other key supports such as Student Advisers, EDI, HR and the Consent Oversight Committee.
• Supporting the delivery of dignity and respect training to employees and students.
• Monitoring contacts and disclosures which will feed into the overall data reporting system that will support the Consent Oversight Sub‐Group make decisions around instigating assessments in accordance with the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.
• Keeping abreast of best practice developments in this area nationally and internationally.