Caring Together is a leading charity supporting carers of all ages across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.
At Caring Together our vision is a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated ...
Carer Friendly Tick Award Assessor
Contact person
Maddy Dilley
#108004
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Summary
Are you, or have you been, an unpaid carer? We’re looking for carers with lived experience to join our Carer Friendly Tick Award Assessor Panel.
Detailed description
Help Recognise Carer-Friendly Organisations - Become a Carer Friendly Tick Award Assessor
Are you, or have you been, an unpaid carer? Would you like to use your lived experience to make a difference for other carers?
We’re looking for carers with lived experience to join our Carer Friendly Tick Award Assessor Panel. The Carer Friendly Tick Award is an accreditation that recognises organisations across Cambridgeshire and Norfolk supporting unpaid carers, with a focus on Health, Employers, and Community Settings.
As an assessor, you’ll review applications remotely and provide feedback based on your experience as a carer, helping to shine a spotlight on organisations that go above and beyond to support carers.
What you’ll do
You’ll help to ensure organisations are meeting the needs of unpaid carers by:
- Reviewing applications against award criteria
- Providing feedback in writing or verbally during a remote meeting
- Joining panel meetings, held approximately once a fortnight (1.5 hours each, covering up to two applications)
All training and ongoing support will be provided.
What you’ll get:
- The chance to make a real difference to carers’ lives
- Opportunities to learn new skills and gain valuable experience
- To be part of a supportive and friendly team
What you’ll need:
- Lived experience of being an unpaid carer
- Ability to give clear, constructive feedback
- Confidence using email and Word
- To be based in Cambridgeshire or Norfolk
This is a flexible, voluntary role and not paid employment.
Please note - this role is fully remote but you must be based in Cambridgeshire or Norfolk to be able to volunteer.
About Caring Together Charity
Caring Together is a leading charity supporting carers of all ages across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.
At Caring Together our vision is a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated or struggling alone. You can join us in working to make this vision a reality for people who are looking after a family member or friend.
If you are an unpaid carer, we are here to help you. We are here to give you information and advice, and to provide services and support, to make your caring role more manageable, to benefit you and the person you support.
There are over 150,000 unpaid carers across the region covered by the charity: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Peterborough, and tens of thousands are caring alone behind closed doors. More than three in five of us will become an unpaid carer at some point in our life. We will look after a family member or friend who needs our help because of illness, disability, poor mental health or addiction. Despite how common caring is, many unpaid carers feel they are on their own.
Unpaid carers often find themselves plunged into a caring role with little warning, and feel completely overwhelmed by the heavy responsibilities they shoulder. Many are exhausted from looking after their husband, wife, partner, parent, sibling or child for hours every day, sometimes in addition to trying to hold down a job or bring up children.
We need your help to make sure that even more carers in our local communities receive the practical and emotional support that they need.
Caring Together is a network partner of Carers Trust and has grown significantly over the past ten years, providing more services and more help for family carers and their families across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.