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Young Carers Sessional Worker  

Do you enjoy working with young people? Are you interested in supporting Young Carers by delivering engaging activities that promote wellbeing, reduce isolation and give them a break from their caring responsibilities? 

Then this job is for you! 

Job Title: Young Carers Sessional Worker 
Location: London, Wandsworth – Wandsworth Carers’ Centre (office-based and community/outreach) 
Contract Type: Sessional / Zero Hours Contract 
Salary: £15 per hour 
DBS Check: Enhanced required 

We are seeking a flexible, reliable, and enthusiastic Sessional Worker to join our Young Carers team. The primary focus of this role is to provide consistent support at our weekly Young Carers After School Club, which takes place every Thursday during term time from 4:30pm – 6:00pm. The club is delivered across two age groups (5–11 and 12–16 years), and regular attendance and commitment to supporting both groups each week is an essential requirement of the role. 

You will work alongside the Young Carers team to deliver engaging, age-appropriate activities that promote wellbeing, reduce isolation, and provide children and young people with a fun, safe, and supportive break from their caring responsibilities. You will encourage participation, build positive relationships, support behaviour where required, and help ensure every young person feels welcomed, included, and valued. 

You will also play an active role in planning and preparing for the After School Club as well as assisting with the set-up before each club and the clear-up afterwards to ensure the space is safe, organised and welcoming. 

In addition to the weekly After School Club, you will support the delivery of our school holiday programme, including trips, workshops, activity days, and special events, subject to your availability. This will include contacting families, promoting upcoming activities, recruiting and booking young carers onto both the After School Club and holiday activities, supporting attendance, and helping to ensure activities are well attended by those who would benefit most. 

From time to time, you may also support outreach and engagement activities, including attending community events, working with local schools and partner organisations, and helping to identify hidden Young Carers so they can access the support and opportunities available through our service.

  This is a sessional role, therefore hours are not guaranteed but will be offered based on project need.

Key Requirements Include: 

• Experience working with children, young people, or vulnerable groups 

• Ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with young people and their families 

• Reliable, punctual, and flexible 

• A strong understanding of professional boundaries and confidentiality 

• Willingness to work evenings and weekends 

• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusive practice 

About Wandsworth Carers’ Centre: 

We are a busy, ambitious charity operating at the heart of the Wandsworth community since 1995, helping thousands of people across the borough in unpaid Caring roles. We give information and advice, organise respite, offer complementary therapies, deliver training, provide peer support, arrange fun events and much more.  In short, we are the Carer's friend and advocate, often helping Carers through difficult times. 

Wandsworth Carers’ Centre is an inclusive employer. We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do.

Benefits of working for Wandsworth Carers’ Centre: 

Friendly team and working environment, contributory company pension, ongoing training and development opportunities and an employee assistance program. 

Closing date: 31st August 2026

Please note we will be interviewing candidates as suitable applications come in and therefore reserve the right to close this vacancy before the stated closing date. We encourage applications as soon as possible. 

The Opportunity

The International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) are looking to hire an International Medical Engagement & Communications Coordinator. This role will be fully remote, working closely with UK business hours. It is initially a 0.6 part-time role on a permanent basis.

This role will suit someone who has experience working in a communications or engagement role with a medical society or university and having dealt with international stakeholders.

There may be some travel requirements to Aberdeen or internationally.

Experience and Qualifications

Education: A healthcare sciences or pharmacy qualification to degree level is essential, you may also have qualifications in medical writing.

Experience: It is essential that you have experience working for a professional medical society, university or similar organisation with international stakeholders. You should have experience in a medical communications-type role.

Job Description

Member Societies 

• Work with ISAC’s Member Society Engagement Group which is a sub group of the society’s Executive Committee, to realise their strategic objectives.
• Make contact with each of the Society’s Member Societies (currently 107).
• Undertake research if contact details are out of date to make the initial contact.
• Open a dialogue with the Member Societies.
• Request updated contact details and society information as required.
• Produce a paper summarising the different areas of activity undertaken by ISAC’s Member Societies.
• At the request of the CEO, send the Member Societies regular newsletters and updates about the Society and the benefits of membership.
• Create a template for the member societies to complete as details change.
• Diarise AGMs or key annual / biennial meetings for when member society key personnel may change and proactively request updated information as these take place.
• Undertake a membership survey, if required.
• Engage with membership through online media (social media, websites, online journal).
• Take overall responsibility for Member Societies under the guidance and supervision of the CEO.

Liaison with Commercial Companies

• Work with ISAC’s Industry Liaison Group which is a sub group of the society’s Executive Committee, to realise their strategic objectives.
• Update the details in ISAC’s industry database.
• Identify commercial companies (pharmaceutical / diagnostic) to add to ISAC’s industry database.
• Aid ISAC’s Industry Liaison Group to complete an industry review and produce a strategy document to identify opportunities to increase commercial support for both the Society itself (if required) and for the biennial International Conference of Chemotherapy and Infection (ICC). 
• Identify key prospects.
• Develop tailored approaches to these companies.
• Make these approaches.
• Facilitate discussions and negotiations as they develop.
• Maintain the relationship and engagement with corporate partners and other supporters.
• Fulfil contracts and ensure appropriate representation at the ICC and other meetings.
• Ensure corporate partner programme and sponsorship and exhibition offerings at the ICC and other meetings are complementary.

Communication

• Establish an internal communication / reporting structure and plan with the CEO during the handover phase.
• Produce an external communications plan for the Society to include all aspects of communication if required to include a strategy (24 month cycle) for the newsletter.
• Produce and maintain a database of E-mail addresses and ensure compliance with data protection requirements.
• Design, construct and disseminate a regular newsletter under the guidance of the CEO.
• Take overall responsibility for communication under the guidance and supervision of the CEO.

Website

• Provide recommendations on redesign and usability of ISAC’s current website.
• Be responsible for updating the design and content under the guidance and supervision of the CEO / Executive Officer.
• Work with the CEO / Executive Officer to establish requirements and access.
• Act as the Society’s webmaster to update content as requested.
• Proactively update the content on Member Societies, Scientific and Educational Meetings and Archives.

About ISAC

The International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC), a learned society, is a charity and company limited by guarantee and registered in the UK.

ISAC a federation of affiliated member societies, provides a global catalyst to increase the knowledge of antimicrobial therapy and to decrease antimicrobial resistance. By connecting societies from high- and low-resource settings, ISAC fosters collaboration and mutual learning. Central to its mission is the empowerment of national and regional societies, which ISAC recognises are essential agents for local change to occur. ISAC amplifies the voices of the affiliated member societies, enabling context-sensitive solutions to advance healthcare worldwide.

ISAC delivers education through diverse modalities—including an international congress (International Congress of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy), peer‑reviewed journals and an online academy. Further information is available at https://www.isac.world