• Rehabilitation services
• Habilitation services
• Rehabilitation careers

Rehabilitation services

Rehabilitation services provide instructional programmes and advice to RNZFB members as they adjust to their vision loss and seek to regain and maintain independence. There is an emphasis on new ways of doing familiar things.

Habilitation services

Habilitation services are aimed at assisting people to live every day as a blind, deafblind or vision-impaired person and to develop the skills required for independence and community participation.

Habilitation and Rehabilitation staff work from 16 RNZFB offices throughout New Zealand. They develop programmes adapted to the individual needs of the blind, deafblind or vision-impaired person.

Service Managers
Service Managers coordinate the roll-out of all direct services to members. This includes Adaptive Daily Living, Orientation & Mobility, Counselling, Recreation, Adaptive Communications, Adaptive Technology, Guide Dogs and Employment Services. They also arrange for members to be fitted with the following: canes, CCTVs, lamps and magnifiers. Staff members making a referral should use the Internal referral form October 2008 [Word document, 24.5KB, standard print] and email it to the relevant Service Manager.

Our Service Managers are:

• Northland Penny Hieatt
• Auckland – North, West & Central Penny Hieatt
• Auckland – South & East Phone Liz Quarrie
• Tauranga, Hamilton, Rotorua Kay Rolls
• North Island - Lower Coralea Easther (Palmerston North)
• South Island Pete Madden

There are some special cases where a refferal does not go via a Service Manager. These are listed below.

• Children - Local Service Manager
• Deafblind - Local Deafblind Services Coordinator
• Maori - Local Mana Kāpō staff member
• Pacific Island - Local Pacific Services Coordinator

All Service Managers can be contacted toll-free on: 0800 24 33 33.

Rehabilitation careers

The RNZFB is always keen to hear from appropriately qualified and experienced staff. There is an ever-increasing demand for RNZFB services.

For more information on a rehabilitation career with the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind, contact Human Resources toll-free on: 0800 24 33 33 or email: HR.