Community Sight Loss Advisor

Role: Community Sight Loss Advisor

Location: Bristol

Salary:  £21,420 pro rata

Contract type: This is a part-time role, 3 days per week. Permanent after satisfactory probationary period

Closing date: Monday 2^nd May at 5pm.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated and caring individual to join our Community Sight Loss Advice (CSLA) team, providing information, advice and guidance to people living with sight loss across Bristol, Bath & N-E Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

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. Working alongside the CSLA Manager, the postholder will plan and organise community hubs in key locations in the area to ensure maximum accessibility of 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.

Prior experience of working with sight loss is not required, and comprehensive training will be provided. The role will involve travel around the region and will be based in our Bristol office.

Sight Support 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 0117 322 4885 to arrange an appointment, or you could send questions by email to info@sightsupportwest.org.uk and we will reply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held the week of the 9^th May in Bristol.

To Apply

Read the job description for the role here

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If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please send a CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the post to info@sightsupportwest.org.uk  Please title your email ‘Application for Community Sight Loss Advisor (Bristol)’.

We require all applicants to have the appropriate right to work in the UK.

This role is subject to a basic DBS check.

If you have access needs or require reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know.