Carer Support Adviser

Salary: £13,824 per annum (£23,250 FTE)

Contract: 1 Year Fixed-term Contract

Hours: 22 Hours per Week

Location: This is a hybrid role which mostly involves community working in Southend on Sea and some home working.  

We have an exciting opportunity for a Carer Support Adviser to join our team in Southend.

As a Carer Support Adviser you will be part of our Operational Team, helping to improve the lives of carers through your work. This role will include, managing conversations with carers to identify need, providing information, advice, and wellbeing support; running wellbeing groups and pro-active identification of carers through partnership working.

To be successful you will have experience of working with adults either in a 1:1 or group setting, a working knowledge of health and social care particularly in relation to adults and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. A high standard of written skills is needed in order to help the carer identify their support needs and to complete statutory assessments.

In return you will benefit from working for a not-for-profit organisation that delivers a service which makes a real difference to peoples’ lives. We offer training and development to help you grow your career, a good annual leave entitlement, flexible working options, access to our workplace pension, employee assistance programme and a Benenden Healthcare package.