Salary: £38, - £40, per annum depending on experience Location: Chelmsford base with travel across Essex Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week Contract: Permanent To be considered for the role of Sensory Rehabilitation Worker, you must have a Diploma of Higher Education or Foundation Degree in Rehabilitation Studies.
We are looking for a Senior Rehab Worker to join our established and reputable team to provide professional supervision to Rehabilitation Workers/Assistants/ Apprentices and support and advice to other workers in the assessment and provision of services to people with sight loss. Reporting to the Sensory Service Operations Manager, this role is responsible for providing assessment and rehabilitation training which includes daily living, low vision, mobility and communication skills for people with visual and dual sensory impairments.
What you'll be doing:
1. Undertake assessment of needs, individually tailored rehabilitation programs and reviews for visually impaired or dual sensory impaired people.
2. To provide professional guidance and consultation to colleagues within ECL Sensory Service, across ECL and sensory workers within Social Care
3. To undertake supervisory responsibilities to identified team members.
4. Ability to identify objectives and outcomes together with the means to achieve them
5. Ensure the proper assessment, management and mitigation of risk, including Information Governance, Health and Safety and Business Continuity.
6. Responsible for recognising a disclosure of a concern from an individual that requires a safeguarding intervention to be made and to take appropriate action.