We are looking for a dedicated and motivated individuals to join our team. Y sort it Young Carers Service supports young carers/ young adult carers aged between 8-18 years across West Dunbartonshire.

This exciting post offers a unique opportunity to work with Young Carers within school, home & community based settings. The role of the Young Carer Support Worker will be to support young carers in making informed choices around issues that are important to them, through one to one, group work sessions & respite.

You will be offering and completing Young Carers Statements (Assessments), developing support plans, providing advice and information, training, and peer support to help young carers with their caring role.

Young carers are supported through a range of measures to alleviate the caring role and your role will be to work closely with schools, partner agencies and family members to ensure they are able to be a young person first and foremost.

You will be active at providing support and encouragement, helping them to overcome challenges and /or barriers working towards goals to improve their learning, skills and personal development. Offering guidance, rights based information, creating learning opportunities. You will be developing support plans, providing advice and information, training and peer support. Your role will be to work closely with schools, partner agencies and family members.

The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work will involve working, evenings, school holidays and weekends. The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work may change to respond to the demands of the work of the Young Carers Service including overnight stays for respite.

You will be directly managed by Y sort it Young Carer Manager.

Purpose and Objectives

Y sort it Young Carers Service aims to support young people within West Dunbartonshire who play a caring role within their family.

The postholder will provide critical support to Y sort it, schools, and communities to drive West Dunbartonshire’s Carers Strategy & Integrated Children’s Services Plan for Young Carers.

Y sort it Young Carers Services aims to provide:

Information & Awareness – Improve the awareness & visibility of Young Carers within West Dunbartonshire, encouraging our schools, partners and community to help identify Young Carers early & ensure that information is available in regards to support that can be offered.

Support & Involvement - Support Young Carers by offering 1-2-1 support, offering each young carer the opportunity to complete a Young Carers Statement to identify their support needs and personal outcomes. We involve them in the planning of their support, with their needs being reviewed on a regular basis. We aim to ensure young carers are listened to & heard – we aim to engage and consult with young carers on issues important to them, influencing local and national policy and planning.

Short Breaks & Respite – Provide opportunities for Young Carers to have a break from their caring role, be a young person first and foremost – Y sort it provides weekly groups sessions, Drop in’s, Day Trips, Overnight residentials and Holiday programs. These are opportunities for Young Carers to meet other Young Carers (Peer Support), try new things, learn new skills and have fun.

Requirements

You will have a relevant qualification or evidence of previous experience working within social work, healthcare or youth/community/ voluntary work or in the field of Health Promotion, or relevant / equivalent experience, working with children, young people and / or families.

Please note, a driving license is essential for this role.