Senior Rehabilitation Worker - Visual and Hearing Impairment service

Our Values

It’s great to know that you are interested in working with us at Coventry City Council. As a prospective employee, it is important that everyone who works for us is committed to our One Coventry values and shares our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. 

Our Values are:

We have a simple vision and strategy that defines what we are trying to achieve, our purpose and our approach which underpin the principles of Adult Social Care, and we continue to work in support of this.

In a simple sense all our work, at whatever level should continue to support the strategy of: ‘Providing support, in the least intrusive manner possible, based on the assets, resources and abilities that are available to people’.

Adult Social Care encompasses a wide range of vital services covering;

• Commissioning Team – we commission and work with a number of providers, to ensure that people with care needs have access to a range of good quality support to enable them to live independent and fulfilling lives
• Social Work Services - we work with individuals who have care and support needs, and with their carers be they older or younger adults
• Occupational Therapy and Equipment Services - we aim to enhance people’s ability to live safely and independently in their home
• Internally Provided Services – we provide direct support to people enabling those in most need to live independent and fulfilled lives
• Business Systems and Continuous Improvement - we provide a range of services including Financial Assessments, provider payment processing and Business Systems administration. The Business Systems team provide support to Adult Social Care, Children’s Services and Education Services.

This is an exciting time to join us as we work to put adults and their carers at the heart of everything we do. Specifically, if you are social workers, occupational therapists or social care professionals who are committed to achieving the best outcomes for adults and their carers we will help you make a difference through manageable caseloads, high-quality professional support, supervision and guidance and excellent learning and development opportunities

What is the job role?

We are looking for a dynamic Senior Rehabilitation worker to join the Visual and Hearing Impairment (VHI) Team within the Enablement and Therapy service. This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced team of Rehabilitation Workers who provide support to people who are visually and/or hearing impaired and deafblind. You will be using a strengths-based approach to assess, plan and agree to a rehabilitation programme to promote independence in activities of daily living both at home and outdoors.

This is an exciting time to join the Coventry VHI Team with the recent development of a specialist deafblind service to meet the needs of deafblind people in Coventry, including a contracted communicator-guide service.

There will be an opportunity to undertake Level 3 training in assessing the needs of deafblind adults if not already completed. Two CPD sessions a year with a deafblind training provider are offered to all staff who have undertaken the level 3 training.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an individual with the following qualities:

• A qualified Rehabilitation Worker with a minimum of two years post qualifying experience
• Experience in supervising rehabilitation workers and ideas to develop the service further
• Experience working with people with visual and hearing impairments and a dual sensory loss
• Excellent interpersonal skills working with people, formal/informal carers, and health and social care professionals
• Complete strength-based specialist assessments and client-centred rehabilitation plans.
• Organising, prioritising a reduced caseload with management responsibilities
• Self-motivated with a flexible approach

For further information please contact Naheed Khan at 07739624723.

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'

Interview date:   8th February 2023

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 4800 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies