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Lead with your Heart at Making Space
We have an opportunity available for a carer support worker to join the team at our Carers Wellbeing Service based in Calderdale,West Yorkshire HX1 5BD which provides a value based support, advice and information service to carers living in the Calderdale area.
Making Space is an award winning and values based national charity, we always aim high and our vision is to put Wellbeing at the Heart of Health & Social Care. At Making Space our focus is upon building relationships, connecting communities and providing quality care as unique as the people we support.
The Role:
You will provide a values based support, advice and information service and empower and help carers with a range of issues on a one-to-one basis including by providing practical and emotional support, access to welfare benefit advice, carers assessments, emergency back up plans and to assist carers to develop coping strategies.
This role will also involve the development and delivery of a new buddying service for carers.
Whilst skills are important, our main priority for any new colleague is to find people who share similar values and attitudes to our own.
Who we are looking for:
Kind Hearts – generously building empathy and connection to create a sense of belonging
Tailor Making – nurturing unique relationships to make every day count
Dreaming Big – harnessing imagination we generate confidence in ourselves and others to take the first step
Having Courage – committing bravely to working in ways that take us to new places
Being Ready – responding to whatever comes our way by moving forward together
We offer a range of tailor-made rewards including:
Wagestream - Access up to 30% of your wages as you earn
Pension Schemes min 3% employer contribution
Paid sick leave
Death in Service benefit
Lifestyle discounts through Love 2 shop and Health service discounts
Holidays: 28 days inc. bank holidays subject to contract
Double time for Xmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day
Buy and sell up to 2 weeks holiday – statutory limits apply
Access to library of learning through e-learning portal
Free qualifications level 2 to 6 in Health and Social Care, Management, Admin plus others
Continuous professional development for professionally qualified colleagues
Career development opportunities – 1 in 2 senior posts filled through internal promotion
Travel schemes - cycle to work, car maintenance and 40p a mile travel expenses
Colleague engagement hub and monthly colleague awards
What we do
We are a national charity and leading provider of health and social care services.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Vacancies:
1 x full time position (37 hours)
1 x part time position (15 hours)
Overview of Hopeful families
Hopeful Families is a community programme run by the ‘PLUSS’ Organisation and a team of five West Yorkshire voluntary and community partners.
Jointly funded by National Lottery Community Fund and the European Social Fund, the programme is designed to help individuals from the region’s most socially excluded families.
Hopeful Families aims to help individuals who are out of work to build their confidence and overcome the challenges they face in finding employment.
The programme will be individually tailored to meet a person’s needs and will offer advice in areas such as personal development, health and wellbeing, finance and benefits as well as providing access to training and life-skills mentoring, such as using digital technology.
Groundwork support is provided through family mentors who offer one to one sessions with either an individual in the family, or with the family as a whole, to help improve their situation and encourage a more positive outlook.
Groundwork is one provider of the Hopeful family project based in Wakefield. We are committed to achieving a working environment which provides equality of opportunity and freedom from unlawful discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, pregnancy and maternity, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, disability, religion or beliefs, age or sexual orientation.
Purpose of Job
The Family Mentor will support clients within the wider Calderdale, Kirklees & Wakefield area, providing 1:1 support to engage with disadvantaged participants with multiple barriers, assessing their needs and developing individually tailored support packages to enable them to become more socially included and enter training, education and /or employment.