- Advertised from 1st December 2021
- Full time (35 hours) or 20 hours per week
Role
As Carers Link Worker for Angus Carers Centre you will work within a team responsible for unpaid adult carer identification and support for unpaid carers.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Provide information about available services, benefits and other organisations of interest to carers
- Provide individual one to one support to carers and assess the support needs of carers
- Work alongside the Carer Development Workers to ensure carers outcomes are met in an appropriate and meaningful way
- Signpost to appropriate services to help lessen the impact of the caring role on carers
- Raise awareness of unidentified carers and support carers already identified
- Bring carers together for mutual support and develop support groups as appropriate
- Organise social and leisure activities for carers
- Work as part of the team to organise and facilitate or deliver appropriate training for carers
- Liaise with the Volunteer Development Worker in relation to matching volunteers and carers for the volunteer befriending service
- Develop positive links with other service providers, promoting the needs of carers
Application notes
To apply, please provide the following:
- A covering letter explaining why you want the job, highlighting your relevant experience, and explaining how you meet the ‘Person Specification’ (detailed below). The letter should be between 800 and 1000 words.
- A CV, limited to two pages.
- Contact details for two work or education related references. (Please state clearly if you do not want us to contact your referees prior to interview.)
Completed applications should be sent to jane@anguscarers.org.uk
Closing date: 24th January 2022.
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Self-Directed Support Worker
- Full time
- £29,581
- Livingston, home and possibly other locations in West Lothian. (Hybrid)
- Closing 24th April 2024
Carers of West Lothian is looking for a Self-Directed Support Worker to join their team. This is a new post funded by Inspiring Scotland for 3 years. The post holder will; identify and support carers and people with a learning and/ or physical disability to understand Self-Directed Support (SDS) and social care support; provide information, advice and support to those considering or in receipt of SDS and provide individual and group support.
Fife Carers Centre seeks a Carer Support Worker (Localities) to join their team.
Fife Carers Centre is a well-regarded and well-established organisation that has supported thousands of families and unpaid carers throughout Fife since 1995. The vision of Fife Carers Centre is to ensure that unpaid carers throughout Fife are valued, recognised, and supported to have equal access to a good quality of life that is not prejudiced by their caring role.
You will be based at the Fife Carers Centre in Kirkcaldy, but you will also be working from home and in the community, as part of normal work you will be expected to travel throughout Fife, particularly in the City of Dunfermline area.
Your work will include providing a sensitive, person-centred support service for unpaid and family carers. You’ll be assisting carers to maintain their physical and mental wellbeing by providing carers with a comprehensive information service to enable them to make informed choices about their own emotional, physical, and economic wellbeing. This will include giving one-to-one support to carers in order that they know how to access services helping them to develop self-advocacy and, where necessary, advocate on the carer’s behalf.
You’ll be supporting carers to identify and achieve their own outcomes using the Carer Support Planning process and providing carers with a benefit check, assisting with benefit applications, and very importantly providing a listening ear for carers.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £50,000 – £55,000
- Livingston, home and possibly other locations in West Lothian. (Hybrid)
- Closing 24th April 2024
Carers of West Lothian is looking for a Chief executive officer who will: manage the day to day operations of the organisation, providing direction and leadership in the development and implementation of the organisation’s purpose, vision and strategic priorities and delivering the annual objectives as agreed by the Board: secure and manage various funding streams to achieve greater sustainability and expansion of Carers of West Lothian’s services.
Dundee Carers Centre is a thriving and innovative local charity providing information and support services for disabled people and carers.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Self-directed Support Team supporting people in Dundee.
As a Self-directed Support Advisor, you will work to empower people to have genuine choice and control over the way in which they lead their lives, ensuring that they have comprehensive advice, information, and support.
You will have a good standard of education, experience of working with people in an outcome focused way and be committed to working in a co-productive manner.
Find out more about SDS atSDS Dundee and Angus Website
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