Parent-Carers Project Worker (Sandwell Carers)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 31 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £12.60 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Sandwell, West Bromwich |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Midland Mencap |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: |
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JOB TITLE: Parent-Carers Project Worker (Sandwell Carers)
EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Permanent
RESPONSIBLE TO: Service Coordinator
SALARY: £12.60 p/hour
HOURS: 18 hours per week (flexible via a rota to meet service outcomes)
WHERE: Outreach across Sandwell (Office B32 3BZ)
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 ‘Parent-Carers Project Worker’ to help bring the vision of the Sandwell Carers 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 Parent-Carers and be ready to listen and act as needed and appropriate.
• Communicate confidently with Parent-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 ‘Parent-Carers Project Worker’ do?
As a key team member of the Midland Mencap/Sandwell Carers team, you’ll play a central role in identifying and supporting unpaid Parent-Carers— who provide care to their Children with SEND, other 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 delivery of a range of workshops, support groups and information and advice sessions both in-person in community settings across Sandwell and online. Themes include areas of topic like Understanding Education Health & Care Plan’s, Carers Rights, Sensory Play, Communication and more – don’t be put off if these subjects are new to you – training will be provided.
Your day-to-day duties will include:
• Direct Support: Offering information and advice, through the facilitation and delivery of workshops/support groups and other similar activities and events.
• 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 Sandwell’s rich cultural diversity.
• Information & Guidance: Providing clear, relevant advice and signposting to help Parent-Carers navigate services, understand their rights, and access support.
• Promotion & Outreach: Helping to raise awareness of Sandwell Carers 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 approaches are at the heart of your work as well as Safeguarding, GDPR, and all other Midland Mencap’s policies.
• Reflective Practice: Taking part in regular team reviews of activities to learn, improve, and evolve our offer.
• Flexible Working: Contributing to a rota system that supports the needs of Parent-Carers, while maintaining a balanced and structured workload. This will include time spent in the office and local communities across Sandwell.
About Midland Mencap & Sandwell Carers
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.
Sandwell Carers is a partnership led by Forward Carers who have been empowering unpaid Carers to live fulfilling lives since 2014 and delivered locally by local organisations including Midland Mencap. Sandwell Carers is commissioned by Sandwell Council and 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.
EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Permanent
RESPONSIBLE TO: Service Coordinator
SALARY: £12.60 p/hour
HOURS: 18 hours per week (flexible via a rota to meet service outcomes)
WHERE: Outreach across Sandwell (Office B32 3BZ)
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 ‘Parent-Carers Project Worker’ to help bring the vision of the Sandwell Carers 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 Parent-Carers and be ready to listen and act as needed and appropriate.
• Communicate confidently with Parent-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 ‘Parent-Carers Project Worker’ do?
As a key team member of the Midland Mencap/Sandwell Carers team, you’ll play a central role in identifying and supporting unpaid Parent-Carers— who provide care to their Children with SEND, other 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 delivery of a range of workshops, support groups and information and advice sessions both in-person in community settings across Sandwell and online. Themes include areas of topic like Understanding Education Health & Care Plan’s, Carers Rights, Sensory Play, Communication and more – don’t be put off if these subjects are new to you – training will be provided.
Your day-to-day duties will include:
• Direct Support: Offering information and advice, through the facilitation and delivery of workshops/support groups and other similar activities and events.
• 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 Sandwell’s rich cultural diversity.
• Information & Guidance: Providing clear, relevant advice and signposting to help Parent-Carers navigate services, understand their rights, and access support.
• Promotion & Outreach: Helping to raise awareness of Sandwell Carers 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 approaches are at the heart of your work as well as Safeguarding, GDPR, and all other Midland Mencap’s policies.
• Reflective Practice: Taking part in regular team reviews of activities to learn, improve, and evolve our offer.
• Flexible Working: Contributing to a rota system that supports the needs of Parent-Carers, while maintaining a balanced and structured workload. This will include time spent in the office and local communities across Sandwell.
About Midland Mencap & Sandwell Carers
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.
Sandwell Carers is a partnership led by Forward Carers who have been empowering unpaid Carers to live fulfilling lives since 2014 and delivered locally by local organisations including Midland Mencap. Sandwell Carers is commissioned by Sandwell Council and 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.