Job Opportunities
SIGHT LOSS ADVISOR – EMPLOYMENT (PART TIME)
Salary: £17,061 for 25 hours
Hours: 25 hours per week
Location: My Sight Notts, 26-28 Heathcoat Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AA
Contract: Permanent
My Sight Notts is a local sight loss charity working with people across Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire who are living with sight loss. This role will support individuals to improve their skills with assistive technology, to enable them to seek work and carry out job searches, applications and other tasks – supporting people to gain, retain or progress in employment.
The role will also involve working with employers to promote reasonable adjustments and Access to Work and support individuals to build confidence, independence and workplace skills.
We are seeking an empathetic, highly organised and motivated person to join our team, with experience supporting vulnerable or marginalised individuals and knowledge of assistive technology in practice. You will have strong communication skills, the ability to motivate others and a flexible, collaborative approach.
How to Apply
Please return your completed application form to emmal@mysightnotts.org.uk or via post marked ‘Private & Confidential’ to Emma Lucas, Services Manager, My Sight Nottinghamshire, 26-28 Heathcoat Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AA. For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Emma Lucas on 0115 9706806.
The deadline for applications is Friday 22nd May 2026
Interviews will be held week commencing 1st June 2026
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and strongly encourage applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities and individuals with disabilities. If you require information in different formats or need any further support throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.
Only one in four people with sight loss of working age are in employment. Many people also leave work unnecessarily due to sight loss. We aim to change this. We actively encourage people with a disability to apply for any roles at My Sight. Currently 50% of our front delivery service staff and 50% of our trustees have some form of visual impairment.
Disability Confident
We are pleased to be Disability Confident Employers. Disability Confident is ‘creating a movement of change, encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people’.
We are actively working towards the third and final stage of becoming Disability Confident Leaders. For more details about the scheme, please Click Here.
RNIB Visibly Better Employer
In June 2023 we achieved the RNIB’s Visibly Better Employer standard. The RNIB aims to ‘increase the number of blind and partially sighted people applying for opportunities and for businesses to confidently retain existing staff who develop sight loss.’
For more details of the RNIB’s Visibly Better Employment scheme, please Click Here.
