About The Role
Unleash your potential - Your Career. Their Independence
Come and join us as a supportive and confident Vision RehabilitationSpecialist (VRS) and be part of something life‑changing- helping people with sight loss live the life they choose.
As a Qualified Vision Rehabilitation Specialist (VRS) at Guide Dogs, you’llempower and enable people with sight loss to develop the skills, confidence andindependence they need to live the life they choose. Through personalisedassessment, rehabilitation and wellbeing support, you’ll help individuals adaptto changing circumstances and achieve their goals at home, work and withintheir communities. The Vision Rehabilitation Specialist will be an expert in visionrehabilitation, independent living skills training, holistic assessment, andsupporting people with sight loss to build confidence, resilience andindependence. Our Vision Rehabilitation Specialists play a huge part in ensuringeverything we do enables us to deliver on our purpose and exceed expectations.
This role sits within the Atherton Team with regular travel across Greater Manchester, Cumbria and Lancashire. You will work 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm. Some flexibility is required to occasionally work outside of core hours, including evenings and, on rare occasions, weekends.
Key Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with people living with sightloss, taking a personalised approach to understand their goals, strengths andsupport needs.
- Carry out holistic assessments of mobility, independence,wellbeing and functional vision to identify the right support for eachindividual.
- Develop and deliver tailored rehabilitation and trainingprogrammes that build confidence, independence and everyday life skills.
- Support clients to use assistive technology, equipment andother services that help them achieve their goals.
- Regularly review progress with clients, adapting supportplans to ensure positive outcomes are achieved.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues, partner organisationsand local services to provide seamless support and maximise impact.
- Share your expertise by supporting and mentoring colleagueswhile maintaining accurate records and adhering to safeguarding and dataprotection requirements.
You
You’ll have a person-centred and empowering approach tosupporting people with sight loss to develop their mobility, independence andwellbeing. You’ll enjoy working independently and collaboratively acrosscommunities and multi-agency environments, with a dedicated focus on deliveringtailored rehabilitation programmes and achieving meaningful outcomes forclients, whilst being committed to helping people live the life they choosewith confidence, dignity and independence. You’ll act with integrity and honestyin everything you do.
Skills and Competencies
- Qualified as either a Mobility Instructor or RehabilitationWorker - please refer to the Essential Education/ Qualifications criteriawithin the attached Job Description
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the role. This maybe through holding a valid full UK driving licence or alternative arrangementssuch as Access to Work support or public transport, if suitable for the rolelocation.
- Able to undertake physical demands of the role, includingwalking long distances daily for extended periods of time, in all weatherconditions. Be able to handle equipment and specialist resource required forthe role.
- Proven post qualification experience of working with peoplewho are blind and partially sighted.
- Proven experience of liaising effectively with otherprofessionals / agencies.
- Has proven skills and approaches to work with people whohave additional needs.
- Be willing to register with the Rehabilitation Workers Professional Network.
Benefits
Wewouldn’t be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without ourpeople. That’s why it’s important for us to provide a variety of benefits thatreward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work andcontribution that they make.
- 26 days annual leave. After three years ofcontinuous employment, this increases to 28 days plus bank holidays.
- Real Living Wage Employer
- Flex pot - equal to a proportion of yourannual salary to use on our wide variety of flexible benefits
- The option to buy and sell annual leave
- Discounts and cash-back scheme
- Excellent pension scheme (We will match yourpension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)
- And lots more!
For highvolumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier thanadvertised.
About Us
OurCommitment to Diversity and Inclusion
BehindEvery Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We’re passionate about creating aninclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole selfto work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, maritalor civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic ornational origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t wantyou to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.
Saferrecruitment
GuideDogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding thevulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work historywith any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee detailsfully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role,please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and signup to the DBS update service.
At GuideDogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record willnot automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position.Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates todisclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handledconfidentially and fairly.
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