Senior Habilitation Specialist

4 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom The Guide Dogs for The Blind Full time

**Reference **:002564

**Publication end date **:02/04/2023

**Employment Details**:
**Contractual hours**:
35.00

**Salary**:
Starting salary £37,270 to £39,000 per annum + benefits

**Vacancy location**:
**Location**:
England, South East, Reading

**Vacancy details**:
**Directorate**:
Operations - South East

**Job Title**:
Senior Habilitation Specialist

**Job Level**:
Specialist Professional

**Contract type**:
Permanent

**External job advert**:
The Senior Habilitation Specialist helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by delivering specialist habilitation (mobility, orientation and independent/daily living skills) services, supervisory of Habilitation Specialists, and enabling independence and freedom to blind and partially sighted children and young people.

This role supports the Reading Team with regular travel across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Surrey, as well as providing regional cover across the South East, you’ll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

**Diversity**

**Safeguarding**

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

**Essential**
- Nationally recognised qualification in habilitation training for children and young people with visual impairment.
- Proven, extensive experience of teaching mobility and independence skills to children and young people with a visual impairment and complex needs in home, school, and community settings.
- Can evidence a thorough understanding of the habilitation profession and interest and motivation to develop it.
- Ability to coach/ mentor trainee and qualified Habilitation Specialists.
- Ability to provide professional technical supervision to other trainee and qualified Habilitation Specialists.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

**How to apply**

**The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.**

**If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.**

Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.

**Application Closing Date**:
02/04/2023


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