Rehab Assistant - Vision Support

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 written report for each contact on an in-house database.

· Develop an understanding of vision impairment issues and equipment.

· Identify areas where service users could benefit from a referral into other Vision Support services and/or external organisations.

· Develop an awareness of safeguarding issues and procedures.

· Identify social activities in the area and encourage service users to attend.

· Assist with correspondence i.e. reading/writing mail, making appointments, etc.

· Accompany service users to one-off shopping trips or medical appointments.

· Develop an awareness of benefits and service user eligibility, and support service users to complete the forms as appropriate.

· Contribute to the Vision Support newsletter.

· Take part in supervision, annual review, team meetings and undertake training appropriate to the post.

· Contribute to raising and maintaining the professional image of Vision Support.