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Fife Carers Centre - Carer Support Worker (Dementia)
Created: 23/07/2024
News/Events Category: Job VacanciesPost: Carer Support Worker (Dementia)Hours: 35 hours per weekSalary: £27,602.52 per annum inclusive of public holidaysLocation: Based at the Fife Carers Centre, 157 Commercial Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 2NS, with home working. The post will cover West Fife but may include travel throughout Fife as appropriate.The successful applicant 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 West Fife.
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 so that they know how to access services helping them to develop self-advocacy and, where necessary, advocating 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
The closing date for applications is 11.59am Monday 05 August 2024. Interviews will be held on Friday 16 and Monday 19 August.
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