Job Title: Advanced Practitioner (Visual impairment Rehabilitation Officer).
Salary: Up to £54,135 per annum (Subject to experience).
Working Hours: Full time, 36 hours per week.
The Role:
We’re excited to offer a new managerial role within our Sensory Service, a dynamic opportunity to help shape Adult Social Care. This is your chance to play a key part in building a strong team and introducing innovative ways of working that will make a real impact on people’s lives.
As an Advanced Practitioner, you’ll bring both practical expertise and leadership skills. You’ll mentor and supervise staff, while also managing and guiding our newly appointed apprentice. Our Sensory team plays a crucial role in supporting residents with sight loss, hearing loss, or dual sensory loss. Your work will empower them to meet their social care needs, promote independence, and help them achieve their personal goals.
About You:
We’re looking for someone who holds a relevant Honours Degree or DIP.H.E./Foundation Degree in Rehabilitation Studies (Visual Impairment), or equivalent. Registration with the professional body RWPN is essential, along with experience working with adults with visual impairments.
You’ll be able to design and deliver tailored training programmes to help individuals gain independence, whether indoors or outdoors. This includes:
- Guiding skills
- Pre-cane and long-cane orientation
- Route planning techniques
- Assessing and prescribing special equipment
This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at Enhanced level.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
Closing Date: 11:59pm on Wednesday 30th October 2024
Interview Date: week commencing 4th November 2024
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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