Salary: £26,598 FTE (Pro rata for Part-time is £10,639.20-£15,958.80)
Hours: Part-time (15-22.5 hours per week)
Contract: Starting Janaury 2025 - Fixed Term to January 2026
Base: Carers Plus Yorkshire - Northallerton Office
About us:
Carers Plus Yorkshire is a well-established charity of over 28 years, providing information, advice and support to unpaid family Carers and the wider community across multiple districts of North Yorkshire including Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Hambleton and Richmondshire.
The Role:
An Unpaid Carer is someone who provides unpaid support to family, friends or a neighbour in your community who could not manage without this help. This could be, caring for a relative, partner or friend who is ill, frail, disabled, has mental health needs or substance misuse.
The Adviser to Unpaid Carers (Veterans) will provide a service of information, advice, guidance & support, including emotional support for adult carers 18+ who are Veterans themselves or care for a Veteran in the Hambleton and Richmondshire area.
The successful candidate will follow an unpaid carers journey from assessment to action planning and evaluation of their support.
Raising awareness of unpaid caring and its impact amongst the veteran community, is an important element of the role, so the candidate should be able to deliver talks, training and network with carers and professionals to raise awareness within the Veteran community.
They will be proactive in their approach to support the development of the service, therefore enthusiastic and forward thinking with ideas to reach more veteran carers within the local communities.
If this sounds like the role for you, we offer in return an attractive annual leave package of 25 days plus bank holidays pro rata (with service length increases up to 30 days plus bank holidays). We also offer a healthcare cover plan for discounted dental and optical care plus a range of other benefits. Own transport essential due to some rural locations.
See full job description and person specification below.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Rachel on 01723 850155.
Please return completed application packs (download below), or send your current CV and covering letter, to recruitment@carersplus.net
Job Description
Person Specification
Application Form - editable PDF
Application Form - word version
General Briefing Paper
Equal Opportunities Form
Closing date for applications: noon on Monday 18th November at 12noon.
Interviews will take place in Northallerton on Tuesday 26th November.
Do you consider yourself to have a disability as defined by the DDA? If yes, we will guarantee you an interview providing you meet the essential criteria for the post as described in the person spec.
Are you currently a Reservist for the Armed Forces? If yes, we will guarantee you an interview providing you meet the essential criteria for the post as described in the person spec.
