Family Wellbeing

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Midland Mencap Full time

Job Description and Person Specification

**JOB TITLE**: Family Carer Wellbeing Project Worker

**EMPLOYMENT STATUS**: Permanent

**RESPONSIBLE TO**:Coordinator for Family Wellbeing Service

**SALARY**:£11.40 p/h

**HOURS: Post 1**:37 hours per week & **Post 2**:16 hours per week

**WHERE**:Head Office (B32 3BZ) with outreach across Birmingham

CRITERIA EVIDENCE
**Knowledge/ Desirable**
**Experience and ** *Previous experience of working in a social care setting
**Skills **or similar e.g. health or education settings.*

**Essential**
- Must have basic administrative skills and be able to:

- Follow administrative procedures. _ _Demonstrate good written skills and be able to complete _
- coherent reports. _
- Must be able to demonstrate understanding of working with diverse communities.
- Must have organising skills and be able to:

- Plan and prioritise work._ Application
- Attend and contribute at meetings and groups. _ Form and
- Facilitate discussion at meetings and groups._ Interview.
- Must be able to demonstrate capacity to deal with a range of people in local communities and across levels of public services, and to work with discretion, integrity and with complete confidentiality.
- Must be able to work in dynamic and changing circumstances.
- Must be able to get on with people, and to work independently as well as in a team.
- Be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the issues faced by disabled people and their family carers.

**People & Essential**

**Contacts ** **Ability to act diplomatically and to use a range of communication skills to work sensitively with citizens, Application their families and staff from other agencies. Form and**
- Ability to work reliably and responsibly as a member of a Interview. team with internal and external colleagues to achieve service outcomes.

**Job Impact ** **Determination to seek to improve quality of performance. Application**
- Ability to deliver support to individuals from diverse Form and communities. Interview.

Job Description and Person Specification
- Ability to demonstrate personal values in line with organisational Mission Statement inc. Vison, Mission &
Three Core Offers.

**Creativity & Essential**

**Innovation**
- Ability to provide consistent information to support management. Application

Form and
- Ability to plan, organise and manage activities in a logical Interview. and consistent manner, using appropriate information systems and tools e.g. work schedules and charts.

**Independence Essential**

**& Judgement ** **Ability to work independently and use initiative.**
- Ability to recognise boundaries.
- Ability to accept responsibility for meeting service users’ needs, demonstrating flexibility and pride in delivering work of the highest quality, working to deadlines and under pressure.

**Other All staff employed by Midland Mencap will**:
**Requirements ** **Recognise their duty of care to all work-related citizens and the wider public.**
- Agree with the organisation’s values and ensure that they are always complied with. Application
- Demonstrate understanding and belief in Midland Form and

Mencap’s values. Interview.
- To always uphold the principals of safeguarding.
- Have enhanced level clearance from DBS.
- Be available for occasional evenings and weekend work.
- Full UK Drivers Licence and access to a vehicle.

**Who** We Look for?
Are you a **warm**, **personable**, and highly **motivated** individual who can empower the people you support?

Do you have **passion** for what you do, are a strong **communicator** and have good **problem-solving** skills?

The Project Worker will work alongside an experienced and established team in

Walsall.

We place a high value upon **integrity**, **ethical standards,** and a commitment to **excellence**.

If you have experience working with unpaid carers and families with children, young people, or adults with illness or disabilities, that’s a bonus. But don’t be put off if not. We value transferable **skills** from other sectors and provide comprehensive training to all our staff.

Job Description and Person Specification

**What** does a Project Worker do?
Midland Mencap is looking to appoint a Project Worker who will work alongside colleagues to turn the our vision and mission into a reality.

Identifying and supporting families, or people who provide unpaid care, to people with disabilities and illnesses, they will need to work with a wide range of partners and stakeholders, both internally and externally, to support a wide range of engaging wellbeing activities and the provision of information, advice and guidance.

They will be experienced with engaging with our cities rich cultural diversity and identifying individual and community asset-based strengths.

Our Project Worker will work within a rota system, to ensure we are able to meet the demands of a busy service. As a Project Worker, they will provide frontline support to unpaid carers and work with volunteers to



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