Carers Project Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £12.60 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Walsall, West Midlands |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Midland Mencap |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: |
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JOB TITLE: Walsall Carers Hub – Carers Project Worker
EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Permanent
RESPONSIBLE TO: Walsall Carers Hub Coordinator
SALARY: £12.60 p/hour
HOURS: 24 hours per week
WHERE: Walsall Carers Hub (WS1 1TU) and outreach across Walsall
Who We Look for?
Are you passionate about working alongside individuals, families, and communities to make a meaningful difference? Do you thrive in a role that balances independent responsibility with strong team collaboration? If so, we’d love to work with you.
Midland Mencap is looking for a committed and enthusiastic ‘Carers Project Worker’ to help bring the vision of the Walsall Carers Hub to life. This is a dynamic role where you’ll take ownership of your work while being supported by a close-knit, experienced team, your line manager, and the people we serve.
You will:
• Be motivated by making a difference in people’s lives.
• Bring experience in supporting people in community settings, especially in diverse and underrepresented communities.
• Understand the unique challenges faced by unpaid carers and be ready to listen and act as needed and appropriate.
• Communicate confidently with carers, colleagues, professionals (such as social workers or teachers), and community organisations.
• Be organised, adaptable, and resilient in a role that blends emotional intelligence with practical action.
• Have a proactive approach to safeguarding, confidentiality and compliance.
Most importantly, you’ll share our belief that people with lived experience should shape the services they use, and you’ll be excited to work in a co-produced, strengths-based way.
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.
What does a ‘Carers Project Worker’ do?
As a key team member of the Midland Mencap/Walsall Carers Hub team, you’ll play a central role in identifying and supporting unpaid carers—people who provide care to family members, loved ones, friends or neighbours with disabilities or long-term conditions.
You’ll build strong, trusting relationships with individuals, families, volunteers, and partner organisations, working in a way that is co-produced and rooted in mutual respect.
You will help carers identify and build on their many strengths, through the completion of strengths-based Wellbeing Assessments (face-to-face, by phone or online), working within the busy ‘drop-in’ Information Service greeting and supporting visiting un-paid Carers, Disabled Adults and Professionals, or through ‘outreach’ sessions across Walsall or in Carers’ own homes.
You will facilitate Carers (Wellbeing) Support Groups & Activity Days and support and contribute to workshops and training opportunities.
Your day-to-day duties will include:
• Direct Support: Offering frontline, person-centered support to unpaid carers through one-to-one conversations, group sessions, and wellbeing activities.
• Collaborative Planning: Working together with colleagues, carers, and volunteers to design and deliver a wide range of meaningful, inclusive activities that reflect the strengths, interests and goals of those we support.
• Asset-Based Approaches: Identifying and celebrating the strengths of individuals and communities, from across Walsall’s rich cultural diversity.
• Information & Guidance: Providing clear, relevant advice and signposting to help carers navigate services, understand their rights, and access support. This can be face-to-face, by telephone, or online.
• Promotion & Outreach: Helping to raise awareness of the Walsall Carers Hub within local communities and through professional networks, including statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Volunteer Engagement: Supporting and working alongside volunteers to enhance the reach and impact of the service.
• Monitoring & Safeguarding: Ensuring person-centered plans and risk assessments are in place, and recording your work in line with Safeguarding, GDPR, and all other Midland Mencap’s policies.
• Reflective Practice: Taking part in regular team reviews of casework and activities to learn, improve, and evolve our offer.
• Flexible Working: Contributing to a rota system that supports the needs of unpaid carers, while maintaining a balanced and structured workload. This will include time spent in the office, our public-accessed information center, and in the local community and carers’ own homes.
About Midland Mencap & Walsall Carers Hub
Midland Mencap is a leading West Midlands charity supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, and other long-term conditions—as well as their families and unpaid carers. We work to empower individuals of all ages and abilities, promote inclusion, and improve quality of life.
Walsall Carers Hub is a partnership led by Forward Carers who have been empowering unpaid Carers to live fulfilling lives since 2014 and delivered locally by Midland Mencap. The Carers Hub is commissioned by Walsall Council, the Carers Hub is part of a wider mission to build Carer Friendly Communities—places where unpaid carers are recognised, supported, and able to thrive in all areas of life.
Desirable:
• Work/Lived Experience
o Experience working in a social care, health, or education setting.
o Lived experience as a parent-care of a disabled child, or other type of unpaid carers role.
EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Permanent
RESPONSIBLE TO: Walsall Carers Hub Coordinator
SALARY: £12.60 p/hour
HOURS: 24 hours per week
WHERE: Walsall Carers Hub (WS1 1TU) and outreach across Walsall
Who We Look for?
Are you passionate about working alongside individuals, families, and communities to make a meaningful difference? Do you thrive in a role that balances independent responsibility with strong team collaboration? If so, we’d love to work with you.
Midland Mencap is looking for a committed and enthusiastic ‘Carers Project Worker’ to help bring the vision of the Walsall Carers Hub to life. This is a dynamic role where you’ll take ownership of your work while being supported by a close-knit, experienced team, your line manager, and the people we serve.
You will:
• Be motivated by making a difference in people’s lives.
• Bring experience in supporting people in community settings, especially in diverse and underrepresented communities.
• Understand the unique challenges faced by unpaid carers and be ready to listen and act as needed and appropriate.
• Communicate confidently with carers, colleagues, professionals (such as social workers or teachers), and community organisations.
• Be organised, adaptable, and resilient in a role that blends emotional intelligence with practical action.
• Have a proactive approach to safeguarding, confidentiality and compliance.
Most importantly, you’ll share our belief that people with lived experience should shape the services they use, and you’ll be excited to work in a co-produced, strengths-based way.
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.
What does a ‘Carers Project Worker’ do?
As a key team member of the Midland Mencap/Walsall Carers Hub team, you’ll play a central role in identifying and supporting unpaid carers—people who provide care to family members, loved ones, friends or neighbours with disabilities or long-term conditions.
You’ll build strong, trusting relationships with individuals, families, volunteers, and partner organisations, working in a way that is co-produced and rooted in mutual respect.
You will help carers identify and build on their many strengths, through the completion of strengths-based Wellbeing Assessments (face-to-face, by phone or online), working within the busy ‘drop-in’ Information Service greeting and supporting visiting un-paid Carers, Disabled Adults and Professionals, or through ‘outreach’ sessions across Walsall or in Carers’ own homes.
You will facilitate Carers (Wellbeing) Support Groups & Activity Days and support and contribute to workshops and training opportunities.
Your day-to-day duties will include:
• Direct Support: Offering frontline, person-centered support to unpaid carers through one-to-one conversations, group sessions, and wellbeing activities.
• Collaborative Planning: Working together with colleagues, carers, and volunteers to design and deliver a wide range of meaningful, inclusive activities that reflect the strengths, interests and goals of those we support.
• Asset-Based Approaches: Identifying and celebrating the strengths of individuals and communities, from across Walsall’s rich cultural diversity.
• Information & Guidance: Providing clear, relevant advice and signposting to help carers navigate services, understand their rights, and access support. This can be face-to-face, by telephone, or online.
• Promotion & Outreach: Helping to raise awareness of the Walsall Carers Hub within local communities and through professional networks, including statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Volunteer Engagement: Supporting and working alongside volunteers to enhance the reach and impact of the service.
• Monitoring & Safeguarding: Ensuring person-centered plans and risk assessments are in place, and recording your work in line with Safeguarding, GDPR, and all other Midland Mencap’s policies.
• Reflective Practice: Taking part in regular team reviews of casework and activities to learn, improve, and evolve our offer.
• Flexible Working: Contributing to a rota system that supports the needs of unpaid carers, while maintaining a balanced and structured workload. This will include time spent in the office, our public-accessed information center, and in the local community and carers’ own homes.
About Midland Mencap & Walsall Carers Hub
Midland Mencap is a leading West Midlands charity supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, and other long-term conditions—as well as their families and unpaid carers. We work to empower individuals of all ages and abilities, promote inclusion, and improve quality of life.
Walsall Carers Hub is a partnership led by Forward Carers who have been empowering unpaid Carers to live fulfilling lives since 2014 and delivered locally by Midland Mencap. The Carers Hub is commissioned by Walsall Council, the Carers Hub is part of a wider mission to build Carer Friendly Communities—places where unpaid carers are recognised, supported, and able to thrive in all areas of life.
Desirable:
• Work/Lived Experience
o Experience working in a social care, health, or education setting.
o Lived experience as a parent-care of a disabled child, or other type of unpaid carers role.