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We are recruiting!

Advocate – Full time (35 hours per week)

Vision and Hearing Support delivers a range of activities and services to support those living with sensory impairment in Gateshead and South Tyneside.

The Advocate will focus on supporting people to have their voices heard and their rights and choices respected. The role will provide information and support to enable people to access timely advocacy support that helps them understand information and processes; explore options and choices and tell others what is important to them.

The Advocate will work across Gateshead and South Tyneside and collaboratively with other staff across the Vision and Hearing Support team to enable us to meet organisational outcomes and ensure clients are able to access and benefit from the support the whole organisation can offer.

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External Resources

Visionary UK

Visionary is a membership organisation for local sight loss charities. Our Vision is for a world in which people living with sight loss can access the services they need at a local level where and when they need them.

RNID

We are RNID, the charity working to make life fully inclusive for deaf people and those with hearing loss or tinnitus.

Guide Dogs

Find out how we can support you every step of the way through one of our many services, with and without dogs. By understanding what you and your family want from life, today and tomorrow, we can help you plan to achieve it by getting help.

Thomas Pocklington Trust

We champion the needs and aspirations of all blind and partially sighted people, whilst acknowledging the depth and complexity of the challenges they face.

Macular Society

We’re here for everyone with a macular condition. Our vision is to end macular disease.

Retina UK

We support people affected by inherited progressive sight loss and we invest in medical research to ensure that people can lead a fulfilling life.

Sight Loss Councils

Sight Loss Councils are led by blind and partially sighted members and funded by Thomas Pocklington Trust. We advocate the needs of visually impaired people in our communities and work to improve access to goods and services at a local and national level.

RNIB

We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), one of the UK’s leading sight loss charities and the largest community of blind and partially sighted people.