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Community Sight Loss Adviser (Cotswold)

Cheltenham

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Job title: Community Sight Loss Adviser (Cotswold)
Salary: £23,800 pro rata
Hours of work: 21 hours part-time (0.6 FTE)
Location: Office base in Cheltenham, but much of the daily work will be around the Cotswold region
Direct Reports: Volunteers
Contract status: Permanent after satisfactory probationary period
Annual Leave: 25 days plus bank holidays pro rata

Insight Gloucestershire are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Community Sight Loss Adviser to take a lead role in providing our Information, Advice and Guidance Service for people with sight loss in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire (covering Moreton-in-Marsh, Bourton, Chipping Campden & Cirencester).

The role will work 1-1 with clients, assessing their needs and preparing appropriate action plans to ensure that they are accessing support, equipment, and training to help them adjust to their sight loss.

With support from the Community Sight Loss Team Manager, the postholder will plan and organise community hubs in key locations in the area to ensure maximum accessibility to the service.  This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive person with strong people skills to make a real difference to the lives of people living with sight loss in the area.

Note: Prior experience of working with sight loss is not required, and comprehensive training will be provided.

Organisation Details:

Insight Gloucestershire is the local charity in Gloucestershire dedicated to supporting people living with sight loss or blindness. We work hard to ensure that people with low vision can still enjoy their lives and retain their independence by providing tailored advice, information and support.

Responsibilities:

1. Provide information, advice and guidance to blind and partially sighted people using Insight Gloucestershire’s services, including the provision of support with equipment and training to help clients adjust to their sight loss.
2. Conduct one-to-one Sight Loss Assessments and prepare action plans for clients.
3. Signpost and/or refer clients to other services and agencies where relevant.
4. Plan and organise community hubs in key locations in the geographical area of benefit
5. Support the recruitment and management of a team of volunteers who will offer support to clients to improve their independence and wellbeing.
6. Encourage clients to access Eye Health and Sight Loss Services such as High Street Optometry, Hospital Eye Units and Low Vision Clinics.
7. Liaise closely with the Local Authority Sensory Team, Eye Clinic Liaison Officers and other agencies as necessary.
8. Develop peer support in the local community by supporting social groups for the visually impaired.
9. Conduct home visits to clients where they are unable to access services otherwise.
10. Work with the Communications & Marketing Officer to ensure social groups, community hubs and other events (including those being delivered by partner agencies) are advertised promptly on our website and social media.
11. Ensure that Insight Gloucestershire marketing material is available in opticians, eye clinics, GP surgeries and other appropriate places in your geographic area.
12. Proactively seek other opportunities to promote services to new audiences at a local level (e.g. parish magazines)
13. Record information on clients and interventions on our database according to agreed procedures.

Insight Gloucestershire is committed to quality, equality and valuing diversity, and welcome applications from all backgrounds. As a sight loss charity, we particularly encourage applicants who are visually impaired to apply.

If you would like to know more about the role before you apply, informal confidential discussions prior to application are welcome; please call the number to the right of this advert to arrange an appointment.

To apply for this post please send a CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the post by clicking on Apply Now.  Please title your email ‘Application for Community Sight Loss Advisor (Cotswold)’.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 2nd April at 5pm

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