Vision Rehabilitation Specialist

Cambridge County Council; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

4 weeks annual leave (salary sacrifice

Flexible bank holidays

Additional Voluntary Contributions (AV

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

IDEAL network

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is recruiting for a Vision Rehabilitation Specialist within the Sensory Services team in Cambridgeshire. The role involves assessing and delivering tailored rehabilitation to visually impaired people to enhance independence and daily living skills.

You will work under the guidance of the Senior Vision Rehabilitation Specialist, supporting service users and partners while maintaining a person-centred approach and up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and

Qualifications

• Experience in assessing and delivering tailored rehabilitation for visually impaired individuals.
• Strong communication skills across diverse formats and settings.
• Ability to manage a caseload with accountability and goal setting.

Responsibilities

• Identify, deliver and evaluate professional rehabilitation interventions to visually impaired people to maximise independence.
• Assess and provide support plans for those at risk from harm or dependency due to sight loss.
• Support, advise and mentor rehabilitation assistants as required.
• Report to Senior Vision Rehabilitation Specialist.

Skills

Rehabilitation assessment

Person-centred communication

Case load management

Training delivery

Education

Degree Certificate/Diploma in Visual Impairment Rehabilitation (Level 5)

Job description

Prevention & Early Intervention offers support and input to empower people to remain living independently in their own homes and communities, providing information and support to enable them to function independently for longer preventing and delaying the need for care and support.

Sensory Services are a specialist team including qualified Vision Rehabilitation Specialists who have specialist knowledge in all aspects of; sight loss, hard of hearing/deafness and dual sensory loss/deaf blindness. The team provide information, advice and practical rehabilitation input designed to improve outcomes for people living with sensory loss by providing opportunities for maintaining and improving independence, living skills and wellbeing.

This role is full time 37 hours per week, but the team do have the option to be able to offer 33 hours per week so there is some flexibility in the working week if preferred.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

You will identify, deliver and evaluate professional rehabilitation interventions to visually impaired people to enhance their skills and confidence to maximise their independence. You will be assessing and providing support plans to help people at risk from harm or becoming dependent on others due to their sight loss.

You are not required to directly line manage staff, but you will be required to support, advise and mentor rehabilitation assistants.

You will report to the Senior Vision Rehabilitation Specialist.

About you

You will have previous experience in assessing and delivering a tailored package of Rehabilitation around daily living skills and mobility to people with a sensory loss. You will be up to date with relevant legislation, including the Care Act 2014 and you will have current working knowledge of the safe use of a wide range of specialist equipment, eye conditions and treatments as well as knowledge of the practical application of teaching and learning theories.

You will be able to work with complex and challenging individuals whilst maintaining a person centred approach and you will be a strong communicator, able to communicate with service users and partners in a wide variety of formats. You will also be able to deliver awareness training to social/health care colleagues as required.

You will be able to undertake assessments and set goals and outcomes and will be confident managing your own case load and being accountable for case work.

You will have a Degree Certificate/Diploma (Level 5 or equivalent) in Visual Impairment Rehabilitation and be willing to be registered with the Rehabilitation Workers Professional Network.

Interviews will be held on 28th September 2026

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers