Rehab Assistant - Vision Support

Are you a caring and empathetic person who enjoys making a real difference in people’s lives? Vision Support are looking for a compassionate Rehab Assistant to join their team and provide meaningful companionship, guidance and support to individuals with vision impairments.

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 and maintain contact by telephone. Submit a short report for each contact on our database.
• Develop an awareness of benefits and eligibility, and support citizens to complete the forms as appropriate.
• Develop an understanding of vision impairments and low vision equipment, and order appropriate equipment.
• Signpost to other Vision Support services and/or external organisations.
• Follow safeguarding issues and procedures.
• Assist with correspondence i.e. reading/writing mail, making appointments, etc.
• Accompany citizens to one-off shopping trips or medical appointments.
• Contribute to the Vision Support’s communication platforms.