Rehabilitation Officer Visual Impaired

Job Introduction
Fixed Term - 37 hours per week - BCP Council Sight & Hearing Team

ROVI (Rehabilitation Officer Visual Impairment)

Why choose BCP Council?

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) is the UK’s newest city region and it’s brimming with prospects, positivity and pride offering traditional seaside living that makes the BCP area a fantastic place to live and work.

In return, we can offer flexible working arrangements, professional development opportunities and a supportive team environment.

We can offer relevant training and professional development opportunities and a flexible, supportive team environment.

What you can expect to be doing:
The role involves delivering and assessing professional rehabilitation interventions for individuals with vision loss or dual sensory loss, aiming to enhance their skills and confidence to maximise independence. Responsibilities include providing guidance and support to residents, facilitating the development of communication skills, ensuring safety in daily living, and implementing specific rehabilitation or reablement programmes that empower BCP residents to lead independent, active, and participatory lives within the local community.

The position supports individuals to minimise dependence and maximise independence through strength-based, self-directed support. Collaboration is required with qualified social workers, occupational therapists, and commissioned service providers.

You will manage your own caseload, which includes visiting residents in their homes and care home settings, working closely with health partners and other provider organisations.

What we’re looking for:
Applicants must have the relevant qualification to work with those that are visually impaired. (ROVI)

Recent experience of working within Adult Social Care or similar agency, involving direct contact with members of the public.

You will have an understanding of the social and legal context within which social care services are delivered.

You will be able to demonstrate excellent communications skills, advocating for adults to assist them to achieve their outcomes, including signposting and providing information and advice.

A bit about the Team:
You will work as part of a specialist team to deliver the best possible service to our customers and promote their well-being.

We have regular team meetings, supervision, and a well-established culture of peer support/learning within the team. There is also opportunity to complete CPD/Training activities and use of reflective practice to develop skills and knowledge.

We have modern working practices that help colleagues to do their jobs in the best location for the service whilst at the same time allowing them to balance work and life demands. We use technology to work in a hybrid way - mixing working from modern hubs across the BCP area, with community visits and working from home. BCP Council also invests in the well-being of staff with an employee assistance program, social groups and inclusive working environment.

Additional Information

Current Vacancies - Full time 37 hours per week Fixed Term for 2 months initially.

For further information please contact Team Manager Gwyn Davies 01202 127192

Or Kirsten Flanagan 01202 128019

**About BCP Council**

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

**Our Benefits**

We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see here

As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.

We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.

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