Wigan Life Centre South,
College Avenue,
Wigan,
WN1 1NJ

Salary: Grade 8, £29,577 - £ 33,782 per annum.

37 hours per week

Your role:

You will have a key role in our strategic work to support unpaid carers across the borough, ensuring effective support systems are in place. This is a really exciting opportunity to join a brilliant team and make a real difference to residents in the borough. You will support the implementation of key local, regional and national priorities including Wigan's Carers Strategy, reporting to Partnership Board on progress and challenges.

You will lead on the engagement, involvement and empowerment of unpaid carers to understand the challenges and barriers they face, and gaps in service provision. Building partnerships with external organisations in order to identify mutually beneficial opportunities for joint working on priorities for unpaid carers across the borough.

About you:

You will be a creative, passionate, and driven individual who is committed to the ongoing development of services, to improve outcomes for carers.

You will have an understanding of the life of a Carer and the challenges they face every day. You will be an engaging and outgoing individual with an ability to positively engage with people from in a wide range of forums.

You will have an understanding of The Deal for Adult Social Care and Health, the asset based approach and how to embed this approach in supporting Carers.

About us:

We offer an opportunity to join our passionate team in a rewarding role. The post holder will be able to access a range of training opportunities which supports personal development and growth, alongside employee benefits via ‘My Rewards’ scheme.

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the 2019 LGC Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

As an employer we like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits.

Covid safe:

Wigan Council are proud to be a Covid safe organisation and for some of this role you will be required to work from home and connect with your team and some of the people you will be working with virtually. The health and wellbeing of our staff is of utmost importance to us and if you are required to go into the office a risk assessment will be conducted beforehand and the appropriate safety measures put in place.

For Further information or an informal chat, please contact William Finch 07796 147689.

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Interview date: Tuesday 25 May 2021

Interviews will be held remotely

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