Working as part of a dynamic and dedicated team you will support young and young adult carers (carers) aged 5 – 25 to maximise their personal, social, health and learning experiences and achieve equal access to fulfilled lives.  You will equip them to experience life as children, young people and young adults first, around caring.

You will provide face to face and group support work that improves skills, knowledge, confidence, resilience, life opportunities and support networks for carers.  You will bridge the gaps between transition stages, preparing young people for adult life and will provide assurance that our child and young adult caring community are providing appropriate levels of care.

Functions specific to this role:

1. To ensure a coordinated approach for carers to reach appropriate support
2. Assess the needs of carers, linking them with community based and CTS services to address unmet needs
3. Design and facilitate group support work and materials linked to this work
4. Undertake assessments, support plans and full Reviews including Transition and Care Act compliant Carers Assessments
5. Offer personalised Support Work to carers with moderate to high needs in a variety of settings to address a focus of support and achieve desired outcomes
6. Attend relevant multi agency meetings to ensure effective partnership working
7. Offer personalised support to carers to access and/or remain in education, training or employment
8. To support transitions from children to adult services, education, training, employment and post caring
9. Be an active participant of the young carers team to collectively
10. Contribute to raising awareness of carers and their needs amongst relevant health, social care, educational and voluntary sector professionals
11. Attend appropriate internal and external meetings with other agencies on behalf of CTS
12. Maintain accurate records of contacts via various data collection 
13. Seek out unidentified carers by using a wide variety of mechanisms and our range of networks
14. Use impact measurement tools and collect monitoring data to enable quantitative and qualitative evaluation of our service
15. Adopt behavioural change model in your practice with carers
16. Contribute to CTS newsletters, electronic information and publicity material
17. Identify and respond appropriately to Safeguarding issues
18. Contribute to reception cover for the whole service and team specific duty
19. Encourage the community to engage in our Carers Friendly Communities agenda and activities associated with this
20. Participate with routine reporting and budgeting requirements
21. Contribute to routine short Reviews of carers
22. Contribute to achieving individual grant funds for carers to achieve a quality of life around caring