Hospital Carer Wellbeing Worker

**Purpose...**: YOU will support CARERS during inpatient periods using your empathy, knowledge and/or professional or lived experience of caring and health and social care. Carers registered with our Charity will rely on YOUR guidance and a listening ear, YOUR wellbeing support, organisation of peer support opportunities, help with planning for the future related to their care responsibilities and introduction to preventative services. YOU will also raise awareness of the challenges that unpaid carers face and provide access to appropriate support for carers within West Sussex by liaising with health and social care professionals within the acute and community hospitals as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).**Before you keep reading**: PLEASE DO NOT SEE EVERYTHING IN THIS JOB AD AS "MUST HAVE", BUT RATHER A GUIDING LIST OF WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR. WE KNOW NO CANDIDATE WILL BE THE PERFECT MATCH FOR ALL WE HAVE MENTIONED IN THIS ADVERTISEMENT, SO DO NOT BE AFRAID TO APPLY IF YOU FEEL YOU ARE CLOSE TO THE BRIEF BUT NOT "SPOT ON". **ABOUT YOU**: - You are looking for a **meaningful job** that will make a difference to your local community. - You enjoy connecting with people on a deeper level and can **work independently within acute and community hospitals**. - You have had **exposure to / experience with / interest in social care and health**, particularly as it relates to working with carers in a **hospital setting**. - You can be **flexible about the way you work**, i.e. can travel across West Sussex if needed, work from East Surrey (Redhill), Crawley and Horsham Hospitals or do some work remotely. - You have the **UK right to work** and are prepared to undertake relevant background checks, including references and Enhanced DBS (working with adults). **YOUR ATTRIBUTES**: - Others have described you as..._ - A natural communicator who loves to listen and talk to people - Empathetic and caring - Calm in crisis and a good planner - Open-minded - Someone who values everyone's differences **KEY DUTIES**: - YOU will **provide information**, guidance and support to adults and young people who look after a relative or friend who could not manage without their help **during a period in hospital.**: - YOU will **work as part of a team** of staff and volunteers and will **provide mentoring** to volunteers learning about our carer services. - YOU will know of/learn about the **Think Carer principles and promote them **across all networks, including best practice knowledge, understanding of local/national carer landscape and raising awareness of carer issues. - YOU will **partner with local health, social care and voluntary sector** organisations to enable carers to access timely and appropriate support. - YOU will record/**report **using our outcome-based tools and systems to **evidence the work we do** for the community and identify any areas for improvement. - YOU will **support/report to** Hospital Team Coordinator through data quality, crosschecks and audits. - YOU will **ensure safeguarding** vulnerable adults and children and the health and safety of staff, volunteers and carers is considered. **OUR CULTURE AND DIVERSITY**: At Carers Support, we are building an **inclusive workplace** where **everyone can do their best work **and ** be proud to belong**. We believe that talent is distributed to all of us in equal measure and our differences are a strength not a weakness. **We recruit for potential, not perfection. **Everyone’s unique history has value and our doors are open to people at every meeting of race, religion or belief, different physical ability, age, nationality or citizenship, ethnic origin, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, family structure, and gender identity. **VALUES WE ARE LOOKING FOR IN CANDIDATES**: **We are focused**, putting carers at the heart of everything we do. **We act together**, working with and for carers, the communities they live in and the people that can make a difference to them. **We are leaders**, working with each other to find potential and opportunities across all communities, enabling carers to be identified and involved. **WE ARE COMMITTED TO BEHAVIOURS THAT SUPPORT**: **Quality **- the highest practical level we can reach in outcomes, learning and behaviour **Inclusivity** - respecting people, cultures, and organisations **Caring **- improving quality of life and influencing behaviour change **Integrity** - operating with honesty and reliability **Loyalty **- long-term committed partnerships and co-operation **Innovation** - driving our service development and our will to succeed