Rehab Assistant
Closing date: Monday 06 January 2025
Location: Hybrid and at our Halton office
Hours: 15h per week
Salary: £12 per hour, £23,088 FTE
Contract: Permanent
Are you a caring and empathetic person who enjoys making a real difference in people’s lives? We’re looking for a compassionate Home Visitor to join our team and provide meaningful companionship to individuals with vision impairments who are isolated.
Vision Support are dedicated to improving the lives of people with vision impairments, helping them feel connected, supported, and valued. Through our services, we aim to break down barriers, increase independence and bring societal change.Job Summary
Overall Aims of the Post:
Rehab Assistants play a key role by working with individuals with a vision impairment to empower and enable them to lead a better quality of life, to access their community and services, undertake everyday tasks and maintain social contact with friends and family to relieve social isolation.
Key Responsibilities:
• Visit service users in their own home and maintain contact by telephone. Submit a short written report for each contact on an in-house database.
• Work with the service user to identify areas of support to increase independence and review periodically.
• Develop an understanding of vision impairment issues and equipment.
• Identify areas where service users could benefit from a referral into other Vision Support services and/or external organisations.
• Develop an awareness of safeguarding issues and procedures.
• Identify social activities in the area and encourage service users to attend.
• Assist with correspondence i.e. reading/writing mail, making appointments, etc.
• Accompany service users to one-off shopping trips or medical appointments.
• Develop an awareness of benefits and service user eligibility, and support service users to complete the forms as appropriate.
General/Additional Information
Applicants are advised that contact with guide dogs may be necessary within the workplace.
Please note, we reserve the right to close this advert early should we find a suitable candidate.
For further information about this vacancy and details of how to apply, please visit the Vision Support website: https://visionsupport.org.uk/
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