SALARY £18,787-£19,961
HOURS 16 hours per week
CONTRACT LENGTH March 2023
LOCATION Leeds
CLOSING DATE 23/12/2021
CONTACT jobs@bid.org.uk I
Do you have the passion and experience in supporting people who have a sensory loss? Then we would like to hear from you!
We are recruiting for a DeafBlind Community Worker to join our friendly team at Leeds Hearing and Sight loss Service to provide high-quality Communicator guide support for our service users who are Deafblind or have acquired Dual Sensory Loss to facilitate opportunities to live meaningful and fulfilled lives.
As a DeafBlind Community Worker you will provide one to one support to service users. You will have the ability to facilitate communication in different formats such as BSL and Clear speech as well as experience of sighted guiding. You will provide practical support ensuring the service user has access to written word, respond to correspondence, accessing their local community, access to travel to support the service user to achieve and maintain independence to their best ability. You will be responsible for booking your own appointments, managing workload and dealing with general day to day correspondence ensuring service users case notes, risk assessments, support plans are read and case notes/interventions are updated on our database.
To be successful for the post you will have experience in working with and supporting people with a broad range of sensory, learning and other disabilities and ideally hold a related qualification such as Deaf Awareness Training, Visual Impairment Awareness training. BSL qualification is an advantage but not essential.
In return we offer generous annual leave entitlement, Employee Assistance Program, Health Cash Plan, Occupational Sick Pay scheme, flexible TOIL scheme, we invest generously in training and development programmes, providing sponsorship to pursue formal professional qualifications and the opportunity to learn and develop sign language skills and achieve BSL to a level 2 standard.
Full details are available at https://www.bid.org.uk/work-with-us/deafblind-community-worker-