Carer Involvement Officer - London, United Kingdom - Carers Trust

Description

Carer Involvement Officer

Carers Trust is currently recruiting for a Carer Involvement Officer to join our

Carer Involvement Team.
This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of embedding carer voice across Carers
Trust.

Working with unpaid carers of all ages, but with key deliverables for involving young and young adult carers in our work, you'll be part of ensuring that what matters most to unpaid carers is reflected across our decisions and programmes.

The role will work in partnership with teams across Carers Trust, our network of local carer organisations and other stakeholders to widen participation of unpaid carers, especially from seldom heard groups, and engage them across key areas of our work including policy, communications, programme design and delivery.

We're looking for a dynamic and skilled individual with experience of involvement and participation, including working with young people.

• Support development meaningful and inclusive ways to involve unpaid carers of all ages, including from seldom heard or underrepresented groups.
• Champion participation of unpaid carers and ensure their voices are heard.
• Support continuing development of our UKwide Youth Advisory Panel and its programme of activities for the group to advise and inform Carers Trust's work.

Role Purpose:

This role will support the different teams within Carers Trust to develop their involvement activities and practice to ensure we have a consistent and quality approach to embedding participation by carers at all levels of our governance and delivery.

The role will work in partnership with teams across Carers Trust, our network of local carer organisations and other stakeholders to widen participation of unpaid carers, especially from seldom heard groups, and engage them across key areas of our work including policy, communications, programme design and delivery.

This role will work to involve unpaid carers of all ages, with specific deliverables around involving young and young adult carers.

In this role, your accountabilities, and responsibilities for establishing standards

• Working with Carer Involvement Manager and other Carers Trust colleagues to make sure that the resources and systems we have in place to engage and involve unpaid carers are consistent and userfriendly.
• Making sure that Safeguarding risk assessment and other processes and policies are used properly and help review them to make them as strong as they can be.
• Working with Carer Involvement Manager and other Carers Trust colleagues help develop, test and evaluate existing and new ways of involving and working with unpaid carers.
• Working with the Carer Involvement Manager and other Carers Trust colleagues to understand barriers to unpaid carers getting involved at Carers Trust and to help find ways to remove these barriers.
• Supporting developing meaningful and inclusive ways to involve unpaid carers including from seldom heard or underrepresented groups.
• Working with other Carers Trust colleagues to map and develop a great involvement journey and experience for unpaid carers. Helping to develop the training, support and recognition Carers Trust offers to unpaid carers who want to work with us in this way.
• Working closely with Carers Trust colleagues to help develop and deliver the annual unpaid carers surveys and ensure involvement of unpaid carers throughout.
• Working closely with the Carer Involvement Manager and colleagues in the Social

Impact Team, contribute to developing and implementing a framework to effectively measure the impact of our involvement work.

• Working in partnership with colleagues from across Carers Trust and our network of local carer organisations, both in person and digitally.
• Championing participation of unpaid carers and ensuring their voices are heard.
• Working closely with Carers Trust colleagues to develop a UKwide Youth Advisory

Board and annual programme of activities for the group to advise and inform Carers
Trust's work.

• Maintaining and updating the carer involvement web pages and contributing to the carer involvement communications plan.
• Working closely with Carers Trust colleagues to support the annual programme of

Young Carer festivals across the UK.

• Working with our nation teams to make sure we have as many opportunities for young carer involvement as possible.
• Working closely with the Young Carers and Young Adult Carers Policy and Practice

Manager, including to support involvement activities within the Young Carers Alliance.

• Working with Carers Trust colleagues to support the development and delivery of

Young Carers Action Day and ensure involvement of young/young adult carers throughout, including an annual residential meeting.


To do this role, you will have:

• Experience of engagement & involvement, including planning, risk assessing, facilitating and evaluating engagement sessions
• Understanding of safeguarding
• Experience of working