Rehabilitation Officer for the Visually Impaired

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Location: Riverside House, Rotherham, South Yorkshire

Directorate: Adult Care, Housing & Public Health

Rehabilitation Officer for the Visually Impaired

Job reference REQ21470

Salary £35,412 - £38,220 pro rata

Permanent, Part time, 18.5 hours per week.

This is an exciting time to join Adult Social Care as we continue to strengthen our prevention offer for Adults in Rotherham.

Rotherham is on an exciting journey to transform its Adult Social Care service to ensure every adult is supported to maximise their independence, be safe, healthy and well. Our ‘One Rotherham Values’ ensure we are committed to be Caring, Honest and Proud in everything we do.

The Rotherham Sensory Team provide support, advice and rehabilitation training to people with visual / hearing impairments and people who are Deafblind. We are looking for a qualified Rehabilitation Officer for Visually Impaired People to join our team. Duties will include carrying out specialist assessments plus identifying and delivering outcome focused rehabilitation interventions to enable adults with a visual impairment to live independently. You will also provide professional support and advice alongside specific activities such as equipment demonstration and delivery of daily living skills and mobility training.

Based at Riverside House you will manage caseload of clients with visual impairments. The focus will be working within a multi-agency framework, undertaking detailed screening to ensure each client receives the appropriate service individual to their needs. Ensuring ongoing risk assessment, safety planning and management of cases and if situations change, implementation of appropriate strategies including the referral on to agencies that will provide people with longer term support.

The role is based within the Supporting Independence Team, where the post holder will adopt a strength-based approach, working with people to prevent, reduce and delay the need for care and support while maximising independence.

We are looking to recruit individuals with the right values, skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications to contribute to further enhancing and embedding strength-based practice; supporting our customers with the outcomes they wish to achieve. Above all you will be passionate about our services, our ambitions and most importantly our customers.

You will be part of a supportive team, benefit from regular supervision, training and development opportunities.

For an informal and friendly chat about this role, please email shirin.abdulhusein@rotherham.gov.uk in the first instance.

This post involves working with adults and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme and can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.

Until 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time).

Closing date 9th November 2025.

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