* 36 hours per week (including some evening and occasional weekend work). Fixed-term until 31 March 2027 with planned extension subject to funding.
* 33 days paid leave plus 6 public holidays.
Role
VOCAL - Voice of Carers Across Lothian - seeks two enthusiastic and experienced Carer Brokerage Practitioners to joinits busy and expanding team to provide brokerage support to carers across Edinburgh and Midlothian.
VOCAL is a carer-led organisation and provides a wide range of services to support unpaid carers in their caringrole. Postholders will be expected to work as part of a team, improve outcomes for carers and maximise uptake ofVOCAL and community services.
Postholders will be part of a SDS focused project, VOCAL about Independent Living funded by Support in the RightDirection, Inspiring Scotland. They will liaise with staff, relevant organisations and the funder whilst runningthe project, including Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living (LCiL) who will also have a funded post as part ofthis project. SDS carer support is already well established at VOCAL, and postholders will be able to benefitfrom the expertise of the practitioners who have been involved with SDS support to date.
Applicants will evidence excellent people, and communication skills, brokerage and person-centred support work.Applicants will also demonstrate awareness of the diverse range of caring situations, the impact of caring onpeoples’ lives and barriers carers face at different points of the caring journey. Good working knowledge ofhealth and social care will be expected, with preference given to candidates with applied knowledge ofself-directed support. Applicants will be digitally competent and effective communicators with individuals,carer groups and partner agencies.
Application notes
Download the person specification / job description, also available at vocal.org.uk/about/vacancies. Complete theapplication form and equal opportunities form and return to jobs@vocal.org.uk. Alternatively, send by post toHR, c/o VOCAL Edinburgh, 60 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5HB.
We welcome applications from under-represented minority groups.
Expected Interview date: Edinburgh – Tuesday 21 May 2024, Midlothian – Wednesday 22 May 2024
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 andunpaid carers throughout Fife since 1995. The vision of Fife Carers Centre is to ensure that unpaid carersthroughout Fife are valued, recognised, and supported to have equal access to a good quality of life that is notprejudiced 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 thecommunity, as part of normal work you will be expected to travel throughout Fife, particularly in the City ofDunfermline area.
Your work will include providing a sensitive, person-centred support service for unpaid and family carers. You’ll beassisting carers to maintain their physical and mental wellbeing by providing carers with a comprehensiveinformation service to enable them to make informed choices about their own emotional, physical, and economicwellbeing. This will include giving one-to-one support to carers in order that they know how to access serviceshelping 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 andproviding carers with a benefit check, assisting with benefit applications, and very importantly providing alistening ear for carers.
Dundee Carers Centre is a thriving and innovative local charity providing information and support services fordisabled 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 wayin 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 becommitted to working in a co-productive manner.
We want Renfrewshire to be a Carer friendly community where we work in partnership with Statutory, Third Sector,Private and Community Organisations to ensure:
* Carers are listened to and valued in their role
* Carers have a voice and are involved in shaping theservices
MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
* To ensure the effective representation of Carers and Carers’ issues within local and Nationalforums
* Develop the Carers forum to be representative of Carers in Renfrewshire. Keep comprehensive,accurate and accessible records and reports
* To ensure effective lines of communication between Carerrepresentatives and Carers
* To support Carers representatives to be more confident, influential andinvolved in decision making processes
* To enable the sharing of information between carers representatives by establishing andsupporting the Carers forum
* Manage own workload on a day-to-day basis and use initiative and judgment tomake decisions regarding workload, priorities, to meet changing deadlines.
* Undertake additional dutiesas may be required to ensure the development and success of the Carers Centre.
* To train and supportcarers in their role as Carer representatives
This job description is indicative of the nature and level of responsibilities associated with this job. It is notexhaustive, and the job holder will be required to undertake other duties and responsibilities commensurate withthe grade.
Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? Weare looking for caring and motivated Support Workers to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that beyou?
Who are we?
Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work withdeaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people toachieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.
As well as our outreach service in Edinburgh, we are expanding our service provision in Glasgow and are looking forpeople who can make a major contribution to our plans for innovation and growth and who have the commitment andenthusiasm to contribute to the work of our support services to Deaf people throughout Edinburgh andGlasgow.
We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. However, you wouldneed some experience of working in a support service and managing /overseeing a team.
We will provide on the job training with the opportunity to complete formal qualifications in social care. If youhave knowledge of BSL, or are a BSL user that is a bonus, however we will provide training if not.
The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website .
The role
You will be leading a team to support *deaf people living in the community. As well as leading a team you will belone working in the community, delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within their ownliving environment, to enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring thatwherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include bothactivities at home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.
You will be accountable to the Support Services Area Manager. By working together, you will ensure that a consistent,high quality support service is provided to deaf service users in their own homes, and that staff are supportedto develop and maintain such a service.
Due to the nature of this role, its essential that you can drive and have access to a car.
*deaf: this to includes Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people.
You will be asked:
• To actively monitor and develop individual and team performance by ensuring effective supervision and PerformanceDevelopment Reviews/Reports (PDRs).
• Be responsible for any risk assessments at the service users home as part of your Health and Safetyresponsibilities.
• To provide clear direction, co-ordination, feedback, and day to day line management for the work of a delegatedgroup of staff. Thus, ensuring their motivation to provide outcome focused, person centred services.
• To assess any new service users for the service and match them with staffs.
• To be involved in recruitment for new staff for the service.
• To take an active role in assessments / recordings and to work with service users to develop their skills andabilities to achieve identified outcomes.
• To assist service users with personal care tasks where appropriate.
• To be involved, as appropriate, with all household tasks, maximising service users’ participation.
• To record the day-to-day finances (where relevant) and household budgets of service users.
• To enable service users to access information to be fully informed of their rights and valid expectations from theservice provided.
• To ensure the health, safety and security of individuals and their environment.
What is on offer? What do we offer?
• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.
• 32 days leave pro rata (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time.
• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.
• Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process
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