This role will be working across the Nottingham and Peterborough team, occasional travel across the wider region may be required. You’ll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday with the ability to be flexible if required.
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Come and join us as a proactive and purpose‑led Senior Vision Rehabilitation Specialist and be part of something life‑changing - helping people with sight loss live the life they choose.
As a Senior Vision Rehabilitation Specialist at Guide Dogs, you’ll support people with vision impairment, enabling and empowering them to live the life they choose. You’ll help individuals develop and maintain independence and confidence across all areas of life by delivering outcome-focused, person-centred rehabilitation. The Senior Vision Rehabilitation Specialist will be an expert in vision rehabilitation, including supporting people with sight loss, delivering person-centred interventions, and providing professional supervision, coaching and feedback to Vision Rehabilitation Specialists to ensure high-quality, consistent service delivery. Our Senior Vision Rehabilitation Specialists play a huge part in ensuring everything we do enabling us to deliver on our purpose and exceed expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver person-centred vision rehabilitation and mobility training to support individuals in achieving greater independence and confidence
- Assess clients’ needs holistically and develop tailored, outcome-focused rehabilitation plans
- Provide professional supervision, coaching and feedback to Vision Rehabilitation Specialists to drive high-quality practice
- Observe and evaluate staff practice, identifying development needs and supporting continuous professional improvement
- Promote the use of assistive technology, equipment and external services to enhance client independence
- Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to achieve the best outcomes for people with sight loss
- Maintain accurate records, ensure compliance with safeguarding, health and safety, and uphold high professional standards
You:
You’ll have a person-centred and outcome-focused approach to supporting people with vision impairment and developing others through coaching and supervision. You’ll enjoy working in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment with a strong focus on delivering high-quality, consistent services, whilst being committed to continuous professional development and achieving the best outcomes for the people we support. You’ll act with integrity and honesty in everything you do.
Skills and Competencies
- Qualification as either a Mobility Instructor or Rehabilitation Worker e.g. Dip HE Rehabilitation Studies or equivalent.
- Membership of Rehabilitation Workers Professional Network.
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the role. This may be through holding a valid full UK driving licence or alternative arrangements such as Access to Work support or public transport, if suitable for the role location.
- Able to undertake physical demands of the role, including walking long distances daily for extended periods of time, in all weather conditions. Be able to handle equipment and specialist resource required for the role.
- 2 years post-qualifying experience in Vision Rehabilitation.
- Proven experience of coaching/mentoring and providing professional technical supervision to trainee and qualified staff.
Benefits
We wouldn’t be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without our people. That’s why it’s important for us to provide a variety of benefits that reward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work and contribution that they make.
- 26 days annual leave. After three years of continuous employment, this increases to 28 days plus bank holidays.
- Real Living Wage Employer
- Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your annual 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 your pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)
- And lots more!
For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Behind Every Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.
How to apply
Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page. Please note - If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier. We cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.
As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions.
If you choose to use AI tools to assist in completing your application, please use them appropriately. We value authenticity. If you want to stand out, using a generic AI-generated response isn’t going to separate you from the crowd. This is your time to shine and showcase your unique skills, personality, and thought processes! You can find our full statement on the use of AI to complete applications on our careers website.
If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].
Safer recruitment
Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully 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 sign up to the DBS update service.
At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.
