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Fife Carer's Centre - Carer Support Worker x2 (City of Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy)
Created: 17/04/2024
News/Events Category: Job VacanciesPost: Carer Support Worker x2 (City of Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy)Hours: 35 per weekSalary: £27,602.52 per annumLocation: Hybrid/Kirkcaldy - The post will cover City of Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy but may include travel throughout Fife as appropriate
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 and unpaid carers throughout Fife since 1995.The vision of Fife Carers Centre is to ensure that unpaid carers throughout Fife are valued, recognised, and supported to have equal access to a good quality of life that is not prejudiced by their caring role.
About The Role
You will be based at the Fife Carers Centre in Kirkcaldy, but you will also be working from home and in the community, as part of normal work you will be expected to travel throughout Fife, particularly in the City of Dunfermline area. Your work will include providing a sensitive, person-centred support service for unpaid and family carers.
You'll be assisting carers to maintain their physical and mental wellbeing by providing carers with a comprehensive information service to enable them to make informed choices about their own emotional, physical, and economic wellbeing. This will include giving one-to-one support to carers in order that they know how to access services helping 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 and providing carers with a benefit check, assisting with benefit applications, and very importantly providing a listening ear for carers.
How To Apply
Click here for further information and an application form.
The closing date for applications is 11.59am on Monday 06 May 2024. Interviews will be held week commencing 13 May 2024.
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