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- Visiting clients across the 3 designated office locations and providing high-quality rehabilitation training.
- Writing up reports and ensuring client records are accurate and up-to-date.
- Supporting clients in enhancing their independence through mobility and rehabilitation training.
- Opportunity to work from home when not on visits or during report writing.
- Assessing the needs of visually impaired adults, young people, and children.
- Managing an allocated caseload of service users with a visual impairment and regularly monitoring and reviewing their progress to ensure effective use of resources.
- Working with supervision and guidance from the Senior Rehabilitation Officer, including occasionally joint working on complex casework.
- Ensuring accurate and up-to-date records and case notes are maintained.
- Managing risks within a safeguarding framework for service users who have experienced or are at risk of significant harm.
- Adhering to the National Occupational Standards for sensory services and promoting awareness of them.
- Teaching communication skills, including the use of low vision and low vision equipment, print audio resources, adaptive software, Braille, Moon, and Eccentric Viewing.
- Teaching daily living skills such as colour contrast, lighting, electronic labelling devices, meal preparation, home management, personal care, and leisure activities.
- Teaching indoor and outdoor orientation and mobility skills, including the use of long canes, electronic navigation systems, mapping, and guiding techniques.
- Ability to teach daily living skills, including the use of colour contrast, lighting, task analysis, systematic search techniques, home management, personal care, and leisure activities.
- Ability to teach orientation and mobility skills indoors and outdoors, including low vision techniques, the use of mobility aids, mapping, and guiding techniques.
- Experience in working with people who have a dual sensory impairment and multiple health and mobility difficulties.
- Experience in assessing the needs of visually impaired individuals in various settings.
- Considerable knowledge of a range of eye conditions and their effects on physical and mental functioning.
- BSc (Hons) Rehabilitation Visual Impairment
- Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care (Visual Impairment Rehabilitation)
- Foundation Degree in Rehabilitation (Visual Impairment)
- Diploma in Higher Education Rehabilitation Studies
- Certificate in Rehabilitation Work (Visual Impairment)
- Dual Qualification of Technical Officer and Mobility Officer or equivalent.
- Qualified and registered with RWPN (Rehabilitation Workers Professional Network).
- A qualification in Mobility Training (Vision Rehabilitation Specialist).
- Must be a driver with access to a vehicle for client visits.
