Specialist Deaf, Deaf Blind, and Hearing Impairment Officer

Closing on: Nov 25, 2024

Specialist Deaf, Deaf Blind, and Hearing Impairment Officer

Supply Care Solutions are a market-leading Medical, Social Care and Education recruitment consultancy, we offer a range of accredited services across the public sector, providing highly skilled, compliant professionals in all grades and specialties, including short, long term and permanent positions.

*Required Urgently*

Pay Rate: £30 – £32 Umbrella Payee

Knowledge and Skills:

  • Proficiency in assessment procedures and innovative care packages for Deaf/Deafblind adults, with an awareness of their needs.
  • Understanding of Deaf/Deafblind-related and mental health legislation.
  • Familiarity with key policies, legislation, and guidance for supporting the client group.
  • Knowledge of local community resources.
  • Strong knowledge of safeguarding issues.
  • Understanding of welfare and benefits systems.
  • Experience with personal budgets.
  • Awareness of equality-related policies, procedures, and legislation.
  • Methods of working with service users, carers, and voluntary groups.

Experience:

  • Front-line experience with Deaf/Deafblind adults.
  • Broad experience with social care needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, older persons, and blind individuals.
  • Experience working in a multi-agency environment/partnership.
  • Experience interviewing service users and carers.

Education, Qualifications, and Training:

  • Appropriate qualification, e.g., DipSW (desirable).
  • British Sign Language L3 (essential).
  • Deafblind L3 (essential).

Skills and Abilities:

  • Effective written and spoken communication skills.
  • Ability to organise workload with effective planning and organisational skills for managing a caseload.
  • Ability to work autonomously and accept responsibility and accountability within guidelines.
  • Computer literacy.
  • Ability to communicate in Deaf/Deafblind manual language.

Other Essential Factors:

  • Ability and commitment to support the Directorate’s Equality and Diversity Policy Statement, which is central to service delivery and client relationship management.

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Supply Care Solutions have a number of locum jobs across the UK. 

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Supply Care Solutions have a number of locum jobs across the UK. * All locums must be contract compliant before commencing work through our agency. We are recruiting professionals across all specialisms and grade. We offer an excellent referral bonus for any new worker you refer to us *Terms and conditions apply. Supply Care Solutions works in conjunction with Monitor/TDA rate caps

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