Vision Rehabilitation Specialist Joint Sensory Team Vision Rehabilitation Specialist Joint Sens[...] in Dundee

Closing date: Wednesday 04 February 2026

Location: Dundee

Hours: 36.25 hours per week

Salary: £38,362 - £42,326 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Interview date: 12/02/2026

About the role

Purpose: Provide person-centred rehabilitation support for adults with sight loss (and dual sensory loss), enhancing independence, mobility, confidence, and quality of life. On occasion work with children and young people as they move from children’s services to adults’ services, which requires liaison with Vision Habilitation Specialists. As a key member of the statutory services fieldwork team, you will support people with sensory loss, particularly vision impairment, to live independently. You will assess needs, design and deliver support plans, and provide interventions that promote self-reliance, communication, mobility, and overall wellbeing.

Core Objectives

• Deliver and evaluate professional rehabilitation interventions that enhance skills, confidence and independence.
• Develop tailored support plans that reduce risks and reduce dependence.
• Advocate for people with sight and hearing loss and for NESS, promoting accessible services, equality, and social inclusion.

As NESS also supports people experiencing hearing loss, the role requires supporting people with hearing loss and who are Deafblind.

Key Responsibilities

• Rehabilitation & Service provision

• Carry out specialist assessments of functional vision, daily living needs, and mobility by collaborating with individuals to set personal goals and action plans that promote independent living.
• Plan, implement, evaluate and adapt rehabilitation programmes to maximise independence, safety, dignity and choice, through:

• Daily Living Skills – teaching new techniques or adaptations for personal care, cooking, home management, employment and leisure.
• Communication Skills – providing training in accessible formats such as print, Braille, Moon, audio description, ICT, telephony, Deafblind manual, and block alphabet.
• Mobility Training – delivering planned programmes in orientation and mobility, including guiding, pre-cane, long cane, route planning, and use of specialist equipment.
• Low Vision Support – working with NHS low vision services and NESS ICT workers to optimise functional vision, including advice on magnifiers, lighting, and assistive devices.
• Supporting complex needs – working with adults who have additional challenges such as dual sensory loss, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, or mental health conditions.
• Hearing loss support – providing appropriate support for people with hearing loss, deafness, or who are Deafblind.

• Collaborating within a multidisciplinary joint sensory team and with other statutory and voluntary sector services to provide integrated support; promoting CVI registration; supporting access to benefits, services and workplace adaptations.

• Working within safeguarding frameworks to identify and reduce risks to individuals, families, carers, staff and the community.

• Recognising the psychological impact of sensory loss and offering appropriate emotional support to individuals and their families.

• Connecting service users with statutory, voluntary, health, education, welfare, employment and community services.

• Supporting individuals to represent their own views, needs and cultural identity.

• Recommending specialist aids, conducting environmental access audits, and contributing to local forums (e.g. Dundee Access Group) to promote inclusion.

Other key duties and responsibilities

• Conduct risk assessments and be aware of health and safety obligations.
• Adhere to NESS policies and procedures, including HR, safeguarding, confidentiality and health & safety requirements.
• Maintain confidentiality regarding sensitive information related to service users, volunteers, staff, supporters and partner organisations.
• To become familiar with NESS’s services, establishing good, productive, team-working relationships with all colleagues.
• Ensure all communication (internal and external) meets accessibility best practice.
• Take advantage of training opportunities and be proactive in seeking appropriate training.
• Undertake relevant duties as delegated by line manager.

About you

Qualifications & Professional Standards

• SCQF Level 8 or QCF Level 5 (England and Wales) or equivalent Foundation Degree in Rehabilitation Work (Vision Impairment); DipHE in Rehabilitation Work (Vision Impairment).

Essential Experience & Knowledge

• Experience of carrying out assessments, goal setting and delivering rehabilitation programmes for people with sight loss.
• Knowledge of eye conditions, treatments, and low vision aids.
• Ability to provide emotional support and work sensitively with individuals and families.
• Commitment to safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Competence in maintaining accurate records and producing reports.
• Willingness to undertake BSL training (up to Level 2).
• Flexibility to travel independently across service areas.
• Experience of working with people with dual sensory loss, learning disabilities, or additional health needs.
• Knowledge of community care legislation and statutory service frameworks.
• Familiarity with specialist equipment and environmental adaptations.
• Experience of inter-agency working in health, social care or voluntary sector settings and an understanding of local, regional and national sensory support services.

Skills & Personal Qualities

• Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to tailor to clients’ needs and have the ability to adapt to diverse communication needs and a variety of audiences.
• Highly organized, able to prioritise caseload effectively.
• Demonstrate effective time management and the ability to prioritise while working to meet multiple deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships: empathetic, patient, practical problem-solver.
• Team-player work collaboratively, but also able to work autonomously.
• Be self-motivated with a commitment to excellence and to being flexible and proactive.