Senior Practitioner - Sensory Team London, England
Job description
About us
Hillingdon is London's second largest borough, with fantastic transport links with the A40, M25, the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines all local to us, so you can travel to work with ease.
And boasting over 20 square miles of scenic countryside, consisting of canals, rivers, parks and woodland. We’re also home to some of the world’s most renowned brands such as Coca-Cola and United Biscuits.
With an ambitious strategy, we pride ourselves on delivering services that improve the lives of all our residents, businesses and partners. Embarking on our journey of continuous improvement, we’ve set an agenda to create the provision of; safer communities, a thriving local economy, and a greener more sustainable environment, while increasing our digital capabilities throughout the borough.
Putting our residents first is at the heart of everything we do.
We want talented individuals like you to share our aspirations for the borough, supporting us to deliver exceptional services for Hillingdon.
What Does a Senior Practitioner do for Hillingdon?
The London Borough of Hillingdon are looking for a Senior Practitioner to manage the Sensory Team. You will be responsible for assessing clients who are visually impaired or deafblind, in their own homes, supervising the Rehabilitation Officers within the team, managing the day to day running of the team and designing/delivering training to clients and the wider MDT.
You will be a making a contribution towards a multi discipline approach, within the Integrated Neighbourhoods, as well as working in partnership with our colleagues in Enablement, Safeguarding, Quality Assurance, Continuing Healthcare and Adults with Learning Disabilities.
What are we looking for?
- To manage the team in accordance with the purpose and operating principles of the service and organisational policies and procedures.
- To establish and maintain mechanisms that enable their teams to monitor capability in meeting purpose including caseload management of individual’s members of staff.
- To continue to develop a “whole service’ approach to theSC00627 work, taking responsibility to establish excellent working relationships with other agencies and partners.
- To be alert to system conditions that create waste and develop effective working relationships with Senior Managers to help remove them.
- To promote and embed a culture of continuous learning and collaborative working with colleague team leaders and other (internal and external) partners within the service via regular review of practice, active promotion of Choice & Control for all customers within an appropriate risk management framework.
- Experience working with, and providing support to, people with a visual impairment or are deaf/blind, and their carers.
- Knowledge of a range of disabilities, their effect on all the aspects of a person’s life and the implications of environment and social barriers for people with disabilities.
- An ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload.
- Excellent communication skills and effective negotiating skills.
- Experience of supervising staff.
- A flexible and adaptable approach to work and being a team member.
- Has a Dip HE (Visual Impairment Rehabilitation) or a Cert in Rehabilitation
If this is what you are looking for, Hillingdon could be the place for you to come to practice. In return, we’ll offer excellent development opportunities, plus a range of benefits that includes a career average pension scheme, flexible working and the opportunity to make a real difference to our local community.
What we offer
- Local government average salary pension scheme
- Free parking (4 days a week) if based at the Civic Centre
- A 36-hour week for all full-time staff
- Generous holiday entitlement: a minimum 25 days a year (plus bank holidays), rising to 28 days after five years' service. For more senior positions holiday entitlements can rise to a maximum of 36 days
- Career breaks
- Flexible working hours
- Season ticket loan
- Access to a Credit Union
- Access to a wide range of training and courses
- Discount on a variety of Adult Education courses run by the Council
- Payment of professional fees where these are required
- Discounts at council-owned leisure centres and swimming pools at Hillingdon (Uxbridge), Queensmead (South Ruislip), Highgrove (Ruislip) and Botwell Green (Hayes)
- Cycle purchase scheme
- Car sharing scheme
- 30% discount on green fees at council-owned golf courses
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