About This Role
This role ensures that the community supported by the organization receives excellent service that improves lives. The officer undertakes specialist assessments for individuals who are Deaf, Deafblind, or hearing impaired to identify their needs and promote independent living. The role is varied and involves liaising regularly with stakeholders, managers, volunteers, staff, and service users.
Responsibilities
- Undertake specialist assessments with individuals who are Deaf, Deafblind, or hearing impaired to identify their needs and aspirations and promote independent living
- Plan, implement, evaluate, and review rehabilitative services to people who are Deaf, Deafblind, or hearing impaired to maximize and maintain independence, safety, dignity, and choice
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of legislation (including community care legislation), statutory codes, standards, framework, and guidance relevant to rehabilitation practice and related fields
- Identify, deliver, and evaluate professional interventions to Deaf, Deafblind, and people with hearing impairment to enhance their skills, confidence, and to maximize their independence
- Assess and provide support plans to help people at risk from harm or becoming dependent on others due to their hearing loss or both sight and hearing loss
- Provide assessments of need and rehabilitation support to Deaf, Deafblind individuals and their families living in the Royal Borough of Greenwich with the aim of improving and sustaining their quality of life and access to services
- Provide Daily Living Skills training, including teaching new skills or adapted practice for all aspects of daily living, home management, employment, and leisure
- Provide communication training, including all forms of access to communication such as print, Introduction to BSL, Braille, Moon, audio description, ICT, telephones, Deafblind manual, and block alphabet
- Develop planned programs of training to develop independence in indoor and outdoor mobility environments, including training in guiding skills, pre-cane, long cane, orientation (including specialist equipment), and route planning techniques
- Provide low vision training/therapy in coordination with local NHS low vision services that helps individuals make the best use of functional vision, magnifiers, lighting, and other low vision aids
- Work with people with hearing impairment / Deaf who have additional complex needs such as dual sensory loss, learning, physical, and mental health disabilities in recognition of the cumulative effect of additional disabilities
- Liaise with other specialist workers as necessary
- Assess and recommend minor works of adaptation
- Work within a safeguarding framework to identify, manage, and where possible reduce risk to Service Users, family, carers, communities, self, and colleagues