Below are listed examples of just some of the employment
undertaken by
people who are vision impaired with whom I have worked.
DISABILITY
BUSINESS
Blind
Administrative Assistant
Bank Cashier
Call Centre Operator
Clerical Assistant
College Lecturer
Counselling Midwife
Engineering Assembly Worker
Engineering Supervisor
Nursing Manager
Physiotherapist
Receptionist, Telephonist
Residential School Care and Activity Coordinator
Secondary School Teacher
Social Worker (vision impairment)
Typist
Training and Support Assistant
University Lecturer
Partially
Sighted
Administrative Support Officer
Care Assistant
Clerical Assistant
College Lecturer
Community Fundraiser
Community Worker
Conveyancing Assistant
Development Officer (Voluntary Sector)
Employment and Benefits Advisor
IT Trainer
Mortgage Debt Collector
Police Counter Clerk
Primary School Teacher
Proofreader
Psychiatric Consultant
Residential Care Manager
Scientific Officer (landfill engineering)
Secondary School Teacher
Security Warden
Social Worker
Systems and Project Officer
Technical Sales Manager (central heating)
University Lecturer
In all cases I have been closely involved in the process of developing
working methods and work strategies which minimize the impact of the
individual's disability on their employment. This may have
required:
finding effective ways of accessing business information;
management of support workers;
increasing employer and colleague awareness of client's
vision impairment;
through job design assisting the employer to make best use
of the employee's abilities, thus reducing the impact of disability;