Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, part-time hours available
Contract: Fixed-Term until March 31st, 2025, with a possibility of an extension.
Salary: £23,658.53 per annum (pro rata)
Based at: The Gwent Hub in Pontypool and hospitals across Gwent.
Provisional interview date for this vacancy is Monday, 23rd September 2024.
Role Purpose:
The GCIAAS service is designed to create a welcoming space in hospital settings where a range of partners and/or volunteers offer unpaid carers Information, Advice and Assistance to support them in their caring role and encourage them to look after their wellbeing.
The key principles of the service are:
To improve the lives of unpaid carers across Gwent and to equip them with skills, knowledge, and coping strategies to ensure their own well-being. Raise awareness of unpaid carers Identify unpaid/hidden carers. Promote an environment where the carer has a voice in the planning and delivery of care. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful, but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (Such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
FOR MORE INFORMATION A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=ad0153ba-25c6-4c78-901c-13bb55579dde
If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org or 01492 863005
How to apply
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