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Maldon, Essex (Hybrid)
£32,057 per year pro rata
Part-time (28 hours a week)
Permanent
Job description

Could you help transform the way our charity engages with unpaid carers? As the leading Essex charity supporting carers it is vital that what we do is rooted in their voice and lived experience.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Carer Engagement Lead to join our team, in a new role working directly with the CEO to ensure that carers lived experience is heard and understood and that carers, including young carers across Essex, have opportunities to participate and contribute. This is a rewarding and varied role, combining direct engagement with carers alongside analysing data and communicating evidence of need to help effect real and positive change.

You will be an engaging communicator with active listening skills and the ability to interpret and apply lived experience to strategic and policy decisions and planning.  You will ideally have personal experience of unpaid caring responsibilities and may have previously facilitated service user involvement. You'll be passionate about harnessing the voice of local carers to secure improved outcomes for carers of all ages across Essex.

Action for Family Carers is a thriving charity which for over 35 years has been providing support for Adult Carers and Young Carers – people with unpaid caring responsibilities for others. We are a Carers Trust Network Partner and hold the Excellence for Carers quality mark. We provide support including information, coaching, counselling, peer support, respite care, and Young Carer clubs across Essex, working within schools, GP practices and a variety of community settings.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

       Coordinating participation opportunities that enable adult and young carers to influence local, regional and national policy decisions and help achieve positive change

       Harnessing and amplifying local carer voice and experience and engaging carers in service planning, delivery and review

       Identifying themes and trends and ensuring these are communicated to key stakeholders

       Monitoring and reporting on outcomes.

       You will need to be:

       An excellent communicator with empathy and active listening skills.

       Proactive, highly organised and equally at home analysing data or producing reports as in engaging with carers and senior local decision makers

       Confident in the use of IT including Microsoft 365 and CRMs (databases).

       Passionate about improving outcomes for local carers.

       A driver with access to a vehicle and a willingness to travel across Essex.

We offer:

       Full induction and relevant training

       Contributory pension scheme

       24-hour Confidential Staff Helpline

       An opportunity to help vulnerable families in the local community

    A chance to be part of a supportive and friendly team

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Action for Family Carers View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 21 - 50
Posted on: 10 August 2026
Closing date: 31 August 2026 at 17:00
Tags: Administration, Campaigns, Communications, Social Care / Development, Project Management, Operations, CRM, Data Analysis, Engagement / Outreach, Information Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Partnerships, Programme Management, Qualitative, Quantitative, Strategy, Wellbeing, Events / Activities, Social / Support Work