North Ayrshire Carers Gateway Carer Support Officer
Location:Kilwinning and other localities in North Ayrshire as required
Contract: Part Time, 17.5 hours per week, including some occasional weekend and evening work (plenty notice is given beforehand)
Salary: £12,111 per annum+ 5% employer pension contribution
21 HSC are proud to announce that we have been exclusively retained on behalf of Unity to recruit a Carers Gateway Carer Officer.
Unity is a highly regarded and long-established charity that provides a range of services to support vulnerable and disadvantaged people across the West of Scotland. In North Ayrshire, they have supported unpaid carers for more than 20 years and have been contracted by the local Health and Social Care Partnership to introduce a vastly enhanced service. The new North Ayrshire Carers Gateway model will help more people, in more places and in more ways than ever before.
Carer Support Officers work to identify and support unpaid carers within a designated locality of North Ayrshire. They help carers to identify their needs and put in place a package of support to achieve personal outcomes, triaging them to specialist support within the Carers Gateway service and other organisations as required. Carer Support Officers manage local case load, mai...