Do you want to join a passionate and dedicated charity, supporting older Parent Carer communities across the Manchester area?
Talbot House provides vital support services for parents and unpaid carers of people with severe learning disabilities and complex needs who live in the Manchester area, delivered from our building in Newton Heath. Talbot House’s goal is to provide essential support and be an advocate for their carers in getting the correct benefits, finding care services, help with form filling/letter writing, training for carers, along with the mental health and wellbeing support that many carers of learning disabled people desperately need.
Talbot House are delighted, through support by The National Lottery Community Fund, to be expanding their Thrive Support team with a vacancy of a Thrive Support Worker for the next 3 years.
Talbot House are looking to recruit a dedicated and passionate person to join their expanded Thrive support team. This support worker will have an important role to play in supporting older parent carers and help them plan in a positive way for the future. You will be a dynamic team player with a real understanding of and empathy for older parent carers who have devoted a lifetime to caring for their child. This is a challenging role which will require you to have excellent communication and empathetic skills, and be able to demonstrate patience, tact and sensitivity. You will need good knowledge of the demands that come with caring for a learning disabled person and of the caring services and benefit systems that exist.
Main duties
- Supporting older parent carers at Talbot House and at external appointments as required.
- Provide one to one support and advice
- Write professional applications and reports for a variety of agencies
- Research and utilise other support services beneficial to service users.
- Build productive working relationships with staff, volunteers and external organisations
- Work with the Thrive coordinator and Talbot House staff to improve our service user experience
- To publicise the Thrive project and raise awareness
- Support and take part in carer activities and events undertaken by Talbot House to promote carer wellbeing
- Assist with the supervision of volunteers
- Keep accurate records and ensure database is kept up to date, along with other IT systems
- To undertake any other duties reasonably requested by the Manager
If you would like an informal chat about the role and work involved contact 0161 203 4095 or email: [email protected]
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