Sight Loss Coordinator

Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact in someone's life? Join our team as a Sight Loss Coordinator at Focus Birmingham., This is an exciting time for Focus Birmingham, and we have an ambitious new organisational strategy. We are looking for a Sight Loss Coordinator to play a pivotal role in providing essential support to individuals experiencing sight loss by helping them access benefits, health services, and social care. You will also offer guidance and signposting based on their specific needs. The successful candidate will have three main areas of focus:

• Providing up to date quality information, advice and guidance
• Facilitating Living Well With Sight Loss education programme
• Supporting volunteer led IAG projects, Provide high-quality support for individuals with sight loss.
• Liaise with statutory and third sector organisations to ensure effective care and assistance.
• Deliver Living Well With Sight Loss courses
• Motivate and engage with people across diverse settings.
• Bring your creativity and 'can do' attitude to the role.
• Build trust with strong interpersonal skills.
• Be a team player
The required approach is strengths-based, individual to each person we support, and may involve working closely with the friends and family of our service users to achieve the best possible outcomes.


• Organised individual, capable of managing a complex and varied workload within a busy environment.
• The ability to motivate and engage with a variety of people in varied settings will be a significant advantage.
• Creative person with a "can do" attitude
• High level of interpersonal skills necessary with an ability to establish and sustain trust.
• A team player passionate about developing services that make lives better.
• A positive, outgoing and confident approach, and well versed in identifying risk, understanding and responding to the differential impact that stigma, inequality and discrimination can have on communities and groups.
Skills, advice and guidance:
• Experience of undertaking assessments and developing support plans in line with identified needs.
• An understanding of person-centred principles, and the ability to implement person-centred practices into the day-to-day role.
• Experience and the ability to confidently present in group settings.
• An understanding of how to provide quality support to people with sight loss or a disability.
• Experience of managing and supervising volunteers.
• An understanding of CRM systems (E.g. Charity Log)
• Understanding of support services provided by the third sector and other organisations in Birmingham.
• Up-to-date knowledge of legislative frameworks and key issues relevant to the post.
• Minimum Level 2 in Health & Social care and a minimum of 5 GCSES (A-C/9-4)., Disability Confident
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• 28 days leave per year including bank holidays, plus additional concessionary days.
• Robust pension scheme options
• Life assurance worth 4x annual salary
• Subsidised lunch
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to employee discounts via Blue Light Card