Adult Carers Pracitioner
- Employer
- Solihull Carers Centre
- Location
- Solihull, West Midlands
- Salary
- £21,420 pro rata
- Closing date
- 6 Mar 2019
View more
- Sector
- Local Councils, Charities / Voluntary, Health & Social Care / Work
- Job Type
- Adult and community learning, Community
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Working Pattern
- Flexible hours
- Hours
- Part-Time
Working as part of a dynamic and dedicated team you will support adult carers aged 25+ to maximise their personal, social, health and educational experiences and reach their potential
You will equip, support and upskill adult carers to maintain a healthy life balance through their caring role and to help increase their knowledge and understanding. You will help to promote media resources that enable self-help support, including digital inclusion enabling them to take control of their own lives. Assist Carers Trust Solihull to enable support to carers, professionals and other CTS staff with ongoing training, awareness, gaining skill and understanding by Leading in areas of specialist work.
To ensure carers are involved in all aspects of service planning and shaping of services that affect them..
Functions specific to this role
To ensure a coordinated approach for carers to access appropriate support by offering information, signposting, advice and referral to organisations as part of a multi-agency partnership with the Solihull Community Hub.
Support carers to access and/or remain in education, training and employment
Support carers to overcome barriers and exercise their rights to achieve their desired goals
Undertake comprehensive carers assessments, support plans and reviews with carers in a timely manner
Partake in a Lead condition category to deliver training for Carers to increase their confidence, knowledge and skills to continue caring with confidence
To take a Lead role in building good partnership working in their specialised conditions category.
To act as a specialist in their conditions category and deliver awareness and on-going training support to CTS staff, professionals and key workers, to the wider community.
Contribute in the development of resources and toolkits that enable carers to maintain healthy life style balance.
Promote CTS by giving talks and presentations to professionals and other organisations within their specialised category. Any other duties as agreed by the Chief Officer.
Be an active participant of the adult carers team to collectively:
Contribute to raising awareness of adult carer and their needs amongst relevant health, social care, educational and voluntary sector professionals
Attend appropriate internal and external meetings with other agencies on behalf of CTS Maintain accurate records of contacts via various data collection
Adopt behavioural change model in your practice with carers.
Seek out unidentified carers by using a wide variety of mechanisms and our range of networks Use impact measurement tools and collect monitoring data to enable quantitative and qualitative evaluation of our service
Contribute to CTS newsletters, electronic information and publicity material Identify and respond appropriately to Safeguarding issues
Contribute to reception cover for the whole service and team specific duty
Encourage the community to engage in our Carers Friendly Communities agenda and activities associated with this Participate with routine reporting and budgeting requirements
Get job alerts
Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.
Create alert