Edinburgh Carers Council is looking for two peer support workers to assist carers and adult siblings of people with an eating disorder to feel supported in their caring role and to experience improved wellbeing. You will recruit and develop volunteers with lived experience of caring for someone with an eating disorder and support these volunteers in providing both individual and group peer support. You will cover the NHS Lothian area building on established links with carer organisations and NHS Lothian staff in inpatient and community services for eating disorders.

You will have experience of working in a supportive and enabling role in the mental health field and be passionate about the rights of carers and ensuring their voice is heard. You will communicate with empathy and sensitivity and have the ability to build good working relationships. Personal or lived experience as a carer of a person with an eating disorder is desirable.

VOCAL (Voice of Carers Across Lothian) is seeking a talented and enthusiastic Employer Support Officer to work directly with VOCAL’s employer partners and their carer networks, to: provide information and advice; develop policy and practice; support carer-related workplace initiatives; and provide support in the delivery of training.

The successful candidate will have: a good understanding of issues affecting carers, particularly for carers balancing employment with caring responsibilities; a general understanding of employment policy and practice, or willingness to learn; and an understanding of the private, public and third sector employer landscape in Scotland. They will have excellent interpersonal skills, able to network and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, combined with strong IT and organisational skills.

Lanarkshire Carers is recruiting Carer Support Worker’s to join our team. You will have a relevant qualification in health or social care and/or work experience appropriate for this post. You will need a good understanding of the issues carers face along with experience/understanding of providing individual and group work support, case management and person-centred, strength based and outcome focused approaches.

Lanarkshire Carers is an organisation where you will be supported, valued and well rewarded. Post holders will be based between Lanarkshire Carers Centre: Hamilton and/or Airdrie and in outreach and co-located locality and health/social care venues throughout Lanarkshire. Working from home/hybrid working may also be required.

Lanarkshire Carers works with and for carers to develop and deliver services that make a positive difference to their lives. A value-based organisation, our mission is to ensure that carers in Lanarkshire are identified, well informed, involved, supported, and empowered. We deliver information, advice and direct carer support services that enable carers to continue to care, whilst maintaining their own health and wellbeing.

Before you apply, please review the job description and find out more about us and why Lanarkshire Carers a great place to work. We are a carer positive employer and work flexibly to meet the needs of carers. A generous annual leave and public holiday package is offered, along with a workplace pension scheme, group life/critical illness cover and many other benefits. Lanarkshire Carers is an Equal Opportunities employer.

Visit lanarkshirecarers.org.uk and read our annual report 2021/2022 - A Caring Culture. Our staff team, many of whom are carers themselves, are committed to making caring a positive experience.

Carers of West Dunbartonshire is an innovative and value-based charity, which supports those over 18 years who look after a family member or friend due to illness, disability, frailty or addiction. Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, the organisation is seeking to recruit a Project Lead for the RISE Project (Resilient, Inspired, Supported & Empowered Carers).

As the Project Lead, you will support the development and implementation of our new RISE Project within identified areas across West Dunbartonshire. This three-year project will build resilience, embrace inspiration, provide support and encourage empowerment by identifying hidden and seldom heard from carers, to ensure that they are aware of their rights and provide them with support which will build resilience and skills.

As Project Lead, you will be a highly motivated individual who, ideally has experience in Community Care and a good understanding of the issues relating to unpaid adult carers.