* Category: Care - Children and Young People
* Contract type: Permanent
* Working hours: 36 hours per week
* Posted on: 22 May 2025
* Closing date: 13 June 2025
* Directorate: Partnership
Description
Please note that this vacancy is not part of Surrey County Council, we are advertising this on behalf of a partnership organisation.
The salary range for this role is £25,000 to £36,000 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.
Rewards and Benefits
* A generous annual leave allowance (full time annual leave entitlement is 28 days per annum, plus bank holidays).
* Investment in your development, with training opportunities available.
* Access to an Employee Assistance Programme.
* Pension contributions matched up to 6% using the Pensions Trust.
* Annual flu vaccinations and an eye test every two years with a contribution towards work related glasses.
* A growing range of other staff benefits.
* A fun and friendly team!
About the Organisation
Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey is a leading charity supporting people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, blind, partially sighted and deafblind.
About the Role
This is a brilliant opportunity for an outstanding graduate with a passion for working with children and young people. This is a trainee post and the training programme takes 2 years including on the job training and a graduate diploma (which we pay for). At the end of the 2-year programme, and on successful qualification, you will then be employed as a qualified Habilitation Specialist.
We are recruiting for a trainee Habilitation Specialist who will work within the Children & Young People's team while undertaking the Habilitation and Disabilities of Sight Graduate Diploma at University College London.
The role of the Habilitation Specialist is to teach concepts that most children learn through sight. Habilitation Specialists support children and young people to develop strategies to excel in life without vision, or with reduced vision, developing independence, mobility, and daily living skills.
Role Requirements:
* A degree or a minimum qualification equivalent to QCF Level 4
* A passion for working with children and young people
* Experience working or volunteering with children and young people
* The ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary team
* The ability to work independently and to manage your own workload
* Highly motivated to make a difference to children with a vision impairment and those with a multi sensory impairment
* A commitment to the social model of disability
Additional information
The post is dependent on successful admission onto the University City London Habilitation Specialist Course beginning autumn 2025. The successful candidate will be required to apply for a place on the course once they have their job offer, and by the end of July 2025. The post will begin in August 2025.
An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required.
Sensory Services by Sight for Surrey is an equal opportunities employer and accredited as Disability Confident.
The close date for this advert is 13.06.2025 with interviews to follow.
Alternatively, you may download the forms and job description from Sight for Surrey website HERE .
Please send your completed application form, equal opportunities form and signed GDPR Privacy Notice to Sophia Eyre, email address as above or by post to Sight for Surrey, Rentwood, School Lane, Fetcham, Surrey KT22 9JX.
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