Work supporting neurodivergent people - in work place / education

[AmyPeralta]

Hi,
I want to change careers from teaching (primary school) to something related to neurodivergent students. Ideally I'd work in disabled support in a university, but I'd also be interested in working for a charity / civil service type job on the education side.

I've 15 years of teaching experience - 10 years of which were part time / broken up with maternity leaves. I've been working part time advising neurodivergent students, and am studying for an MA in autism.

I want to get more relevant experience, but I'm not sure how. I've emailed my local university asking about work experience, but not heard back, and not sure if how much my age (late 40s) would be against me.

Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks in advance

I work for a governmental arms length body and there were recently posts advertised for our Early Careers advisors with QTS basically those that go into schools and universities and also design activities to go along with the graduate scheme and apprenticeships and also EDI advisors specialising in autism. Those roles are now filled but they do exist

Thank you - that's good to know and would definitely be interested in an EDI role. I'm wondering what extra experience would help me secure this kind of job. It seems quite competitive, and I'm worried that not having recent office experience will hold me back.

I'd perhaps spruce up your excel skills, become familiar with Planner, Todo and OneNote if you don't already use them. They are all fairly intuitive if you are familiar with MS software.