Young Carers Support Worker

**About Telford & Wrekin CVS**

We provide information, advice and guidance to children, adults and family members living in Telford on a range of topics.

On behalf of funders and through donations we deliver:
- The all aged Family Carers Service including respite activities for children and adults to have a break from their caring role
- A weekly youth club for children aged 5-18
- A community café providing bespoke work placements for people furthest away from the job market
- Telford’s SENDIASS for children with a special educational need and their parents seeking support with education, health and care
- Telford Autism Hubs for children and adults living with autism in Telford
- A programme for adults with a learning disability to increase their health inequalities including access to employment
- A volunteer placement service with job searching and access to training
- Wellbeing Independence Partnership service supporting adults with access to health and social care community based solutions
- An Independent Living Centre supporting access to services for people to live well closer to home

We work alongside many partners across the voluntary and community sector, with statutory partners in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin NHS and Telford and Wrekin Council and Midland Partnerships Foundation trust. We are a trusted partner who welcomes working alongside the corporate sector to enhance our services. Telford and Wrekin CVS are innovative and responsive to local needs. We seek to find positive solutions and pathways to enable people to be empowered and to find the right information at the right time.

**About the Carers Service (Carers Centre)**

The carer’s service supports carers from the age of 5 years. The all age Carers Service fundamentally provides advice, information and support to family carers in Telford and Wrekin. We help to identify and register family carers of all ages.

Our Carer Centre Team provides direct support to the whole family, using a person centred and ‘Think Family’ approach and so assist the family carer to receive a seamless joined up (integrated) range of services/solutions at various points along the Carers Journey.

Our Carers Centre Team work together with the family carer to listen and provide an initial ‘Wellbeing Checkpoint’ which identifies areas of the carers life to provide stability and avoid deterioration of the family unit. A ‘strength-based asset approach’ is used to establish support already available to the carer through their own networks as much as possible. There are more complex cases which also require the Family Carer Resilience Worker to facilitate a person-centred approach with the carer at the heart of the provision of robust ‘wraparound’ connections to include a range of appropriate professional services to maintain family carers and those they are caring for in the community.

We provide a tailored approach to a ‘all age’ range of individual and group support and advice, which has developed community outreach work to include: one-to-one intensive support, family support including a multiagency approach support groups and respite activities in order for family carers to overcome challenges and often emotional stresses and continue to provide care & support for those they care for as well as their own independent life.

**About the Job**

**Post Title**:Young Carers Support Worker

**Responsible To**: All Ages Carers Centre Manager

**Hours**:18 hours per week

**For all of our roles, we are open to discussing the possibility of flexible working to include a mix of remote working, office working and out in the community, flexible start and finish times and days of the week. Please ask us about flexibility, and we will explore what’s possible for this role.**

**Job Purpose**:
The purpose of the role is to ensure that young carers are supported with their:

- Caring role
- Emotional and wellbeing support
- Has access to time away from their caring role

**Multiagency Approach **- A partnership approach is taken to find solutions for our young carers. We connect with wider TWCVS projects and Adult Social Care, Children & Families Services, Public Health, Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust, other VSCE teams, stakeholders and partners.

Case work providing holistic support to wider networks for young carers

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Youth Club**:

- The post holder will deliver fun creative activities required for Telford Young Carers Youth Club and outdoor activities.

**Young carers case work - **The post holder will be required to work with young carers to build resilience in the following ways:
- provide a person-centred approach, putting the young carer at the heart of their case-work solutions in an office setting / community hub (including schools).
- involve other professionals when appropriate to provide an effective whole family approach.
- provide one-one drop-in sessions and general awareness in scho