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.

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.

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.

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NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation formerly known as Tayside Health Fund is seeking to appoint a Grant Officer to work as a member of the Funding Team to be the first point of contact for staff and applicants enquiring about accessing charitable funds to deliver projects that enhance experiences for patients, staff and our wider community. A key role is to provide support and assistance to the Fund Development Manager to identify and deliver projects that will support the Charity to achieve its 2023-2025 grant-making objectives which in turn supports the overall work of the charity.

Tayside NHS Board Endowment Fund is currently valued at approximately £34m and comprises over 450 individual funds. Annual investment income is approximately £0.6m and donations and legacies amount to over £1.8 million per year. Providing information - financial and non-financial advice to funding applicants on all aspects of endowment funds will be a key part of this role. This role will also be the first point of contact for the new Funding Programme. The postholder will work as part of a wider team and will be supported by the Funding Development Manager who is the line manager for this post.

You will be required to achieve the mandatory Induction standards for Healthcare Support Workers in Scotland and to comply with the Code of Conduct throughout your employment.

Informal enquiries to: Richard McIntosh, Funding Development Manager: Richard.Mcintosh@nhs.scot

Hours of work are: 37 hpw

Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.