Habilitation Specialist

**Reference **:002952

**Publication end date **:30/07/2023

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

**Salary**:
£34,123 - £38,387 per annum + excellent benefits

**Vacancy location**:
**Location**:
Scotland, Scotland, Edinburgh

**Vacancy details**:
**Directorate**:
Operations - Scotland & Northern Ireland

**Job Title**:
Habilitation Specialist

**Job Level**:
Specialist Professional

**Contract type**:
Permanent

**External job advert**:
**Key information**: This position is for individuals who are qualified as a Habilitation Specialist. Please refer to the job description for the qualifications we require. This is not a trainee opportunity.

The Habilitation Specialist helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by delivering specialist services that enable blind and partially sighted children and young people to become more mobile and independent. As a Habilitation Specialist you will support services delivered by the team supporting the Scotland region.

Our core hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year. This role is office-based home-start, your nominated office in Scotland will be dependant on your home location.

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**
- Qualified as a Habilitation Specialist with demonstrable post qualifying experience in statutory or voluntary sector.
- Demonstrable experience of teaching mobility and independence skills to individuals with a vision impairment in home, education and/or community settings.
- Demonstrable experience of supporting children and young people (not necessarily vision impairment related) e.g., Youth Work, in an education setting, brownie or scout leader.
- Proven experience of carrying out access and environmental audits.
- Proven ability to liaise effectively with other professionals / agencies.
- Demonstrable evidence of effective assessment and planning skills.

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**:
30/07/2023