About the role
Prevention & Early Intervention offers support and input to empower people to remain
living independently in their own homes and communities, providing information and
support to enable them to function independently for longer preventing and delaying
the need for care and support.
Sensory Services are a specialist team including qualified Vision Rehabilitation Specialists
who have specialist knowledge in all aspects of; sight loss, hard of hearing/deafness
and dual sensory loss/deaf blindness. The team provide information, advice and
practical rehabilitation input designed to improve outcomes for people living with
sensory loss by providing opportunities for maintaining and improving independence
living skills and wellbeing.
What will you be doing?
You will identify, deliver and evaluate professional rehabilitation interventions to visually impaired people to enhance their skills and confidence to maximise their independence. Assessing and providing support plans to help people at risk from harm or becoming dependent on others due to their sight loss.
You are not required to directly line manage staff, but you will be required to support, advise and mentor rehabilitation assistants.
You will report to the senior rehabilitation specialist Nicola Poole.
About you
You will have a degree in Visual Impairment Rehabilitation.
We require you to be registered with the Rehabilitation Workers Professional Network.
We would welcome and support applications from candidates with lived experience of sensory loss.
Interviews will be Week Commencing 25th September
If you have any questions of for an informal chat about this role please contact Nicola Poole (until 01/09/2023) - 07825734989 - Nicola.Poole@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or Rebecca Marr (from 02/09/2023) - 07712251427 - Rebecca.Marr@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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