Vision Rehabilitation Specialist - NFP People Limited : Job Details

Vision Rehabilitation Specialist

We’re looking for a qualified Vision Rehabilitation Specialist (ROVI) to work for a charity offering a wide variety of services to vision-impaired people across Cheshire, Halton, and North Wales.

Position: Vision Rehabilitation Specialist (ROVI)

Location: Home based with regular travel across Wrexham

Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week)

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £33,977.84 - £35,246.40 per annum

About the role:

As Vision Rehabilitation Specialist, you will identify, deliver and evaluate professional rehabilitation interventions to vision impaired people to enhance their skills and confidence to maximise their independence.

You will offer a person-centred, outcome-focused approach to rehabilitation, assisting individuals in identifying tangible goals, conducting evaluations, and creating a plan that will help them all reach their goals and satisfy their needs while lowering risks and lessening the effects of their Visual Impairment.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Carry out an initial conversation, in line with the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act, to identify further actions, and risk factors, refer and signpost to the organisation’s wider services and other organisations to meet the individuals’ desired outcomes.
• Undertake specialist VI assessments with the person to identify their needs and aspirations to promote independent living.
• Agree a plan with the person about how their needs can be met, through other services, equipment and rehabilitation.
• Implement, evaluate and review rehabilitative services to the vision-impaired person aimed at maximising and maintaining independence, safety, dignity, and choice.
• Work with vision-impaired people who have additional complex needs.
• Provide statistical information to feed into quarterly contract monitoring reports.
• Enable the Local Authority to maintain their Partially Sighted/Sight Impaired and Blind/Severely Sight Impaired Registers.

Key skills required for this role:

• Foundation Degree in Rehabilitation Studies (Visual Impairment) or equivalent.
• Excellent planning and communication skills.
• Recognised rehabilitation work qualification (or currently working towards it).
• Proven experience in performing rehabilitation assessments with visually impaired people and providing mobility, communication and daily living skills training.
• Ability to deliver training/advice sessions to individuals or groups of service users, carers and other organisations.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation.
• Ability to travel and work in all areas of Flintshire and Wrexham.
• Be calm and deal sensitively with people and be open-minded to all cultures and ways of life.
• Work on own initiative, whilst exercising discretion and confidentiality.
• Be a team player.
• Be willing to work flexibly (outlook, work hours, work location).
• Able to implement programmes in partnership with other agencies.

*Relocation package available

Other roles you may have experience with could include Vison Rehabilitation Officer, Rehabilitation Officer, Rehabilitation specialist, Vision Rehabilitation worker, Rehabilitation Worker, Vision Impairment, VI Case worker, Vision Impairment Specialist, VI Specialist.