CURRENT VACANCIES
Come and work with us supporting unpaid and family carers in Fife
“A carer is a person who, without payment, helps and supports a relative, child, neighbour or friend who could not manage without their help due to age, frailty, addiction, disability or illness”
Fife Carers Centre is a well-regarded and well established organisation who have been supporting thousands of family and unpaid carers throughout Fife since 1995. We work with adult carers on a one to one basis and in groups. We support carers in their caring role with relevant and straightforward information as well as practical help. We give information and the means to use it to carers on a wide range of topics from applying for benefits to learning more about the condition affecting the person you care for. Most importantly we will work with the carer to protect their own physical, emotional, mental and financial health whilst they maintain their caring role.
We now have an opportunity to bring in new members to our team to meet the ever growing need to support unpaid carers in new and diverse ways.
We now have an opportunity to bring in new members to our team to meet the ever growing need to support unpaid carers in new and diverse ways.
Fife Carers Centre currently has three vacancies for workers. Please see below for details of the posts and application forms. Closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 17th October 2022.
MAKING A GOOD APPLICATION
To get through to interview you need to make a good first impression! We use the information on your application form (we don't consider CVs) to decide who we should offer an interview so it's important that you make the best job you can of completing it - don't miss the opportunity to sell yourself well. We are keen to find the right person for the role and that may well be you even if you don't have all the exact qualifications!
Here's some guidance that will help you to tell us the kind of information we are looking for
INTERVIEWS ON ZOOM
We'll be interviewing candidates on Zoom and it's important that you think about how that makes it tricky to make the impression you want to. Here's some simple tips to help you
To get through to interview you need to make a good first impression! We use the information on your application form (we don't consider CVs) to decide who we should offer an interview so it's important that you make the best job you can of completing it - don't miss the opportunity to sell yourself well. We are keen to find the right person for the role and that may well be you even if you don't have all the exact qualifications!
Here's some guidance that will help you to tell us the kind of information we are looking for
- Fill in all the sections of the application form.
- Your application answers should relate to the Person Specification; tell us the ways in which you are a good match for it, experience counts not just qualifications.
- Tell us about your understanding of carers lives and issues and why you want to work with them.
- Check your spelling!
INTERVIEWS ON ZOOM
We'll be interviewing candidates on Zoom and it's important that you think about how that makes it tricky to make the impression you want to. Here's some simple tips to help you
- find yourself a quiet place where you will not be interrupted by Children, Cats, Dogs etc
- check you can get on to Zoom (you can test the link in advance) and be there on time
- check you are well lit facing the light rather than with your back to the light
- you are positioned well on your screen with your video and audio on
- Wear something smart - as you would for an in person interview (at least the top half!)
- Let your personality shine through - it pays to be a bit "more" you than normal, practice with a friend if you can beforehand.
You will be working as part of the Localities Carer Support Worker Team covering the Kirkcaldy and NE Fife localities. Your case will be in Kirkcaldy but you will also be working from home and in the community.
You will be based at the Fife Carers Centre in Kirkcaldy but as part of normal work will be expected to travel throughout Fife, particularly Kirkcaldy and NE Fife areas.
Your work will include providing a sensitive, person centred support service for unpaid and family carers. You’ll be assisting carers to maintain their physical and mental wellbeing by providing carers with a comprehensive information service to enable them to make informed choices about their own emotional, physical and economic wellbeing. This will include giving one to one support to carers in order that they know how to access services helping them to develop self advocacy and, where necessary, advocate on the carers behalf. You’ll be supporting carers to identify and achieve their own outcomes using the Carer Support Planning process and providing carers with a benefit check, assisting with benefit applications and very importantly providing a listening ear for carers.
The post is part time for 28 hours a week.
There is a job description attached below with more detail about the role and you will also find the Application Form, The Person Specification, The Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and the Privacy Notice below for you to complete and return by email.
Please take time to look at the job description and the person specification to confirm you feel you would be a good fit for the post and a positive addition to our team.
If you are the right person we really want you to succeed in your application!
You will be based at the Fife Carers Centre in Kirkcaldy but as part of normal work will be expected to travel throughout Fife, particularly Kirkcaldy and NE Fife areas.
Your work will include providing a sensitive, person centred support service for unpaid and family carers. You’ll be assisting carers to maintain their physical and mental wellbeing by providing carers with a comprehensive information service to enable them to make informed choices about their own emotional, physical and economic wellbeing. This will include giving one to one support to carers in order that they know how to access services helping them to develop self advocacy and, where necessary, advocate on the carers behalf. You’ll be supporting carers to identify and achieve their own outcomes using the Carer Support Planning process and providing carers with a benefit check, assisting with benefit applications and very importantly providing a listening ear for carers.
The post is part time for 28 hours a week.
There is a job description attached below with more detail about the role and you will also find the Application Form, The Person Specification, The Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and the Privacy Notice below for you to complete and return by email.
Please take time to look at the job description and the person specification to confirm you feel you would be a good fit for the post and a positive addition to our team.
If you are the right person we really want you to succeed in your application!
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You will be working as part of the Fife Carers Centre Hospital Carer Support Workers team covering hospitals in Fife. This post is based primarily at the Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline. You’ll be working with hospital staff to identify family and unpaid carers of patients and will then work with those carers to identify concerns and ways in which you can help them in their caring role. The goal being a successful and supported discharge of the person they care for and improving their own confidence and knowledge. The successful candidate will work with an established worker also based in the hospital. The post is part time for 21 hours a week.
There is a job description attached below with more detail about the role and you will also find the Application Form, The Person Specification, The Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and the Privacy Notice below for you to complete and return by email.
Please take time to look at the job description and the person specification to confirm you feel you would be a good fit for the post and a positive addition to our team.
If you are the right person we really want you to succeed in your application!
There is a job description attached below with more detail about the role and you will also find the Application Form, The Person Specification, The Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and the Privacy Notice below for you to complete and return by email.
Please take time to look at the job description and the person specification to confirm you feel you would be a good fit for the post and a positive addition to our team.
If you are the right person we really want you to succeed in your application!
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This is an exciting and unusual opportunity for the right person!
As Training and Information Office your role will be an integral part of the overall Fife Carers Centre team. You will be identifying training needs for carers, staff and workers in other organisations. You will develop and deliver training and information sessions as well as sourcing alternative solutions to training needs. You will be providing up to date, relevant and accessible information for carers, staff and workers in other organisations and using a range of methods to convey it including maintaining this website, updating Facebook and Twitter, writing bulletins, and producing leaflets, booklets, posters and flyers. You will help to produce and manage information on behalf of colleagues and the board of directors.
You will organise consultation groups with carers and collate the information gathered.
You will represent Fife Carers Centre as a public speaker and on relevant working groups.
The post is part time for 21 hours a week.
There is a job description attached below with more detail about the role and you will also find the Application Form, The Person Specification, The Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and the Privacy Notice below for you to complete and return by email.
Please take time to look at the job description and the person specification to confirm you feel you would be a good fit for the post and a positive addition to our team.
If you are the right person we really want you to succeed in your application!
As Training and Information Office your role will be an integral part of the overall Fife Carers Centre team. You will be identifying training needs for carers, staff and workers in other organisations. You will develop and deliver training and information sessions as well as sourcing alternative solutions to training needs. You will be providing up to date, relevant and accessible information for carers, staff and workers in other organisations and using a range of methods to convey it including maintaining this website, updating Facebook and Twitter, writing bulletins, and producing leaflets, booklets, posters and flyers. You will help to produce and manage information on behalf of colleagues and the board of directors.
You will organise consultation groups with carers and collate the information gathered.
You will represent Fife Carers Centre as a public speaker and on relevant working groups.
The post is part time for 21 hours a week.
There is a job description attached below with more detail about the role and you will also find the Application Form, The Person Specification, The Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and the Privacy Notice below for you to complete and return by email.
Please take time to look at the job description and the person specification to confirm you feel you would be a good fit for the post and a positive addition to our team.
If you are the right person we really want you to succeed in your application!
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Volunteering Opportunities
As well as the paid posts we have vacancies for volunteer posts.
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We want you!
Be part of the future of Fife Carers Centre - Join our Board of Directors! We have a great opportunity for the right people! maybe you're someone at the start of building a career, imagine having "Director" on your CV! or maybe you're recently retired and want to keep your brain supple, or maybe you just have a bit of time on your hands and want to contribute your knowledge and experience to help us keep supporting the carers of Fife. |
Fife Carers Centre is a well-established and well regarded organisation working to support family and unpaid adult carers throughout the length and breadth of Fife. Keeping us on track and planning our way ahead is our Board of Directors and we’re currently looking for people who can offer their time and skills to help this important service continue to grow and develop. Directors of the Fife Carers Centre take the final responsibility for the direction of the organisation and together the Board require a variety of skills and expertise that complement each other to ensure the success of the organisation.
We welcome applications from carers with lived experience of the role, and from anyone with knowledge of the world of charities, from fundraising, finance, HR and any other aspect of the business. We value enthusiasm, creativity, energy and commitment just as much as formal qualifications.
If you think you have some of the skills we might require and have a few hours each month to spare then please contact Fife Carers Centre for further details and an application form.
We need people who can commit to a Board meeting at least six times each year with additional occasional development and planning sessions. This will average out at around 3 hours per month.
If you would like to know more or make an application to join the board please contact us at
Manager
Fife Carers Centre
157 Commercial Street
Kirkcaldy, KY1 2NS
Tel: 01592 205472
Email: centre@fifecarers.co.uk
We welcome applications from carers with lived experience of the role, and from anyone with knowledge of the world of charities, from fundraising, finance, HR and any other aspect of the business. We value enthusiasm, creativity, energy and commitment just as much as formal qualifications.
If you think you have some of the skills we might require and have a few hours each month to spare then please contact Fife Carers Centre for further details and an application form.
We need people who can commit to a Board meeting at least six times each year with additional occasional development and planning sessions. This will average out at around 3 hours per month.
If you would like to know more or make an application to join the board please contact us at
Manager
Fife Carers Centre
157 Commercial Street
Kirkcaldy, KY1 2NS
Tel: 01592 205472
Email: centre@fifecarers.co.uk
Fife Carers Centre has a Befriending Service to help carers who are socially isolated to get back out into their local community and we're recruiting now for volunteer befrienders.
The befriending role will involve meeting up with carers, usually weekly, for 2 – 3 hours to have a friendly chat, go out for a cuppa or visit a local community resource. If you would like to know more about becoming a befriender or you know someone who you think would make a great befriender then please get in touch with us.
Please email to Sylwia.Nadolny@fifecarers.co.uk or telephone Sylwia on 01592 205472
The befriending role will involve meeting up with carers, usually weekly, for 2 – 3 hours to have a friendly chat, go out for a cuppa or visit a local community resource. If you would like to know more about becoming a befriender or you know someone who you think would make a great befriender then please get in touch with us.
Please email to Sylwia.Nadolny@fifecarers.co.uk or telephone Sylwia on 01592 205472