Carers Project Officer - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Age UK Oldham

Age UK Oldham

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Cardiff, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

CONTRACT TYPE

Fixed Term Contract

APPLY BY

03-Mar-2023

SALARY RANGE

GBP per Year
OBS 1

Group

WEEKLY HOURS

28 hours
Age Cymru have an exciting opportunity and are recruiting for a
Carers Project Officer (Fixed Term until 31/03/2025).

The successful post holder will be assisting Age Cymru in the continuation of this important programme of work by engaging with older carers across Wales, carers of people living with dementia and carers of people who have moved to live in a residential care home, to deliver one to one information and advice as part of the Welsh Government Sustainable Social Services Grant funded project between Age Cymru and Carers Trust Wales.

This vital role requires a customer focused, self-driven and proactive individual with excellent communication and influencing skills.

Building upon our existing learning of the caring sector and to further develop our approach around caring services and support, you will be developing relationships with carers to promote shared learning and best practice.

This exciting project involves developing and implementing a programme of engagement sessions with older carers across Wales, including the development of promotional materials.

You will also create a final report capturing the findings from these engagement events to support commissioners and service providers to better understand and meet the needs of older carers.

This post is based in Cardiff and will involve regular travel across Wales, working 28 hours per week, please note advertised Salary is pro rata.

You will have:

Previous experience of a Project Officer role
Awareness of the issues facing older people and carers.
Knowledge of the current health and social care agenda in Wales and how this affects older people.
Influencing skills, including the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal partners and relevant stakeholders to meet project objectives
An understanding of research methodology, ethics, data coding and recording.
Experience of service development and implementation
An ability to evaluate services, produce reports and recommend improvement actions
Excellent oral and written communication skills with an ability to write clear and concise reports
Good IT skills, including proven ability to use Microsoft Office
Ability to work proactively and on own initiative

Great to haves:

Ability to speak Welsh

What we offer in return

Holiday 27 days made up of 24 choice days and 3 days to be used between Christmas & New Year
Including carry forward
Flexible Hours Working Scheme
Employer pension
Generous life assurance up to 4 times your annual salary
Healthcare cashback plan

Additional information

For full job details please review the attached job description.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

We politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.