Trainee Habilitation Specialist
Location: Various regional locations across the UK
Trainee salary: £21,568 per annum
Qualified salary: £27,472 - £38,123 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Benefits: Additional 3% of annual salary to spend on a selection of flexible benefits or receive a proportion as cashback.
You could change the lives of visually impaired children and young people by becoming a Habilitation Specialist, who will support visually impaired children and young people to develop mobility, orientation and independent living skills.
Increasing the availability of habilitation services for more children and young people is a large part of our plan for the future, our By My Side strategy.
We are looking for people with interest, potential, and experience to work with visually impaired children and young people as a Habilitation Specialist, first as a trainee and then as a qualified practitioner.
We have a number of exciting opportunities at the following locations:
- Nottingham, working across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Lincolnshire with flexibility across the Midlands
- Hull, working across the North East region
- Maidstone, working across Kent and East Sussex
- Southampton, working across South / South Central regions
- St Albans but based in Newcastle for the first year of training - working across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Essex
- London working across all boroughs, but based in Reading for the first year of training (+ £4,105 London Weighting)
- Manchester, working across the North West region
The role
This role is central to Guide Dogs strategy, with those in this role training to be able to work daily with visually impaired children and young people to personalise, assess, and review the habilitation needs of those we support. This role incorporates workplace learning, written and practical assessments to fully train you to become a fully qualified Habilitation Specialist. A proportion of the trainee programme is completed as part of the Graduate Diploma in Habilitation and Disabilities of Sight (Children and Young People) at University College London.
Who we’re looking for
You will:
• Be familiar with working with children and young people, and a proven ability to establish effective working relationships with them and their parents or carers.
• Be committed to multi-agency working and can demonstrate a strong ability to liaise effectively with other professionals/agencies.
• Access to a car or suitable transport arrangements.
How to apply
Applications can be made using the online application form. You will need to evidence the criteria as set out in the attached job description. As part of our safer recruitment policy, we do not accept CVs for job applications. Please contact our People Service Centre for more information.
If successful, your job offer will be subject to obtaining a position on the course at UCL.
If you are already a Qualified Habilitation Specialist and interested in working with us, please contact our People Service Centre.
For more information on the requirements of this role, and the training, please refer to the candidate pack below.
Benefits
This role is 9am to 5pm, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year.
We believe that wellbeing at work is about creating an environment to promote a state of contentment which allows all employees to flourish and achieve their full potential for the benefit of themselves and for Guide Dogs. As a member of staff, we offer you a wide range of benefits to suit your individual needs:
• Defined Contribution Personal Pension Plan
• A choice of Flexible Benefits equivalent to 3% of salary to purchase benefits though an on-line portal including Gym Membership, Travel Insurance, Healthcare and Hospital Treatment Plan, Dental Insurance, Additional Life Assurance, Health Screening, buying and selling annual leave (up to 3 days), Cashback to salary (up to 2% of salary equivalent)
• Discounts and Cashback Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Occupational Sick pay
• Occupational Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay enhanced above the statutory minimum.
• Life Assurance
• Childcare Vouchers
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Dogalogue 10% Discount
Diversity
Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome, and seek to ensure, that we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from disabled people as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invite to interview for all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job.
Safeguarding
Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.
Working at Guide Dogs is much more than just a job. Through the values that guide our work we make a real difference, and change lives. We are ... Read more
We are looking for an experienced and dynamic practitioner who is experienced in providing direct and dedicated therapeutic support to minority young women and girls (YWG) at risk and / or experiencing all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) and intersectional disadvantage.
The successful candidate will provide a wrap around, one to one therapeutic support, complimenting the interventions provided by the YWG’s Integrated Multiple Disadvantage Advocates.
You will provide long-term age-appropriate intensive support. You will work within a modal that consists of trauma focused, multi-modal interventions addressing the acute and chronic mental health needs of YWG. The objective of your therapeutic work will be to optimise YWG’s functionality, personal assets and resilience aimed at facilitating sustainable recovery.
This post is for 14 hours per week (part-time) and is based in West London (and includes travel across London).
This post is funded by the Mayors Office for Policing and Crime.
WGN’s employee benefits include: 3% pension contribution, generous annual leave entitlement and an Employee Assistance Scheme.
Interviews: Thursday 16th & Friday 17th April 2020
Successful candidates will be required to attend 5 days of WGN Induction training – dates to be confirmed.
This post is subject to satisfactory references, Enhanced DBS check and evidence of right to work in the UK.
WGN is an equal opportunities employer. The above post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1
Established in 1987, Women and Girls Network (WGN) has spent over 30 years supporting women and girls across London affected by gender-based vi... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Women and Girls Network is a specialist therapeutic service leading in developing and delivering innovative and effective counselling services for women and girls who have experienced all forms of gender-based violence.
We aim to ensure that we are proactive in developing specialist services that meet the needs of all the women and girls who access our services. We seek Specialist Counsellors who will thrive in a multi-cultural feminist environment.
We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who have experience of working with one or more of the following:
- Women and girls from Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic and Refuge (BAMER) communities - ensuring that issues related to diversity and identity are effectively understood and sensitively worked with. We are also particularly keen to hear from applicants who speak community languages (e.g. south Asian languages).
- Women and girls who have experienced harmful practices.
- Creative solutions in working with survivors of gender-based violence that are affected by problematic substance use and mental ill health.
Applicants must be BACP or UKCP accredited (or eligible) and have experience of providing a range of counselling interventions for women who have experienced gender-based violence. The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following: gender responsive approach, trauma focused, holistic therapeutic responses and multicultural competencies. Facilitating recovery and responding to a diverse client group with multiple cultural identities.
We will be offering a minimum of 14 hours a week which will be dependent on the skills set of the successful candidates.
These posts are based in various London locations.
WGN’s employee benefits include: 3% pension contribution, enhanced annual leave entitlement and an Employee Assistance Scheme. We also offer excellent training and development opportunities and successful candidates will receive regular individual supervision as well as an on-going CPD programme in a supportive multi-cultural feminist organisation.
Interviews will be held on: Thursday 16th April and Friday 17th April 2020
Candidates who are invited to interview will be required to provide original evidence of their counselling qualifications.
Successful candidates will be required to attend 5 days of WGN Induction training – dates to be confirmed.
All posts are subject to satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS Checks.
WGN is an equal opportunities employer. The above post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9 and Part 1
Established in 1987, Women and Girls Network (WGN) has spent over 30 years supporting women and girls across London affected by gender-based vi... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.