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JOB TITLE:
Walsall Carers Hub – Project Worker
EMPLOYMENT STATUS:
Permanent
RESPONSIBLE TO:
Walsall Carers Hub Coordinator
SALARY:
£15,016
HOURS:
24 hours per week
WHERE:
Walsall Carers Hub and outreach across Walsall
Who We Look for?
Are you a warm, personable, and highly motivated individual who can empower the people you support?
Do you have passion for what you do, are a strong communicator and have good problem-solving skills?
The Project Worker will work alongside an experienced and established team in Walsall.
We place a high value upon integrity, ethical standards, and a commitment to excellence.
If you have experience working with unpaid carers and families with children, young people, or adults with illness or disabilities, that’s a bonus. But don’t be put off if not. We value transferable skills from other sectors and provide comprehensive training to all our staff.
What does a Project Worker do?
Midland Mencap is looking to appoint a Project Worker who will work alongside colleagues to turn the Walsall Carers Hub vision and mission into a reality.
Identifying and supporting families, or people who provide unpaid care, to people with disabilities and illnesses, they will need to work with a wide range of partners and stakeholders, both internally and externally, to support a wide range of engaging wellbeing activities and the provision of information, advice and guidance.
They will be experienced with engaging with our towns cultural diversity and identifying individual and community asset-based strengths.
Our Project Worker will work within a rota system, to ensure we are able to meet the demands of a busy service. As a Project Worker, they will provide frontline support to unpaid carers and work with volunteers to maximise our reach.
As part of the Walsall Carers Hub, the Project Worker will embrace person centred and user led approaches, with citizen consultation and co-production at the heart of the role.
They will also support the marketing and promotion of the Walsall Carers Hub to unpaid carers and potential referral agencies, in both the statutory & voluntary sectors.
They will participate in regular reviews of the activities and case work they facilitate and contribute to and ensure good quality risk assessments and person-centred plans are in place to support the needs of unpaid carers engaging with the
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