Carer Engagement Lead

Could you help transform the way our charity engages with unpaid carers? As the leading Essex charity supporting carers it is vital that what we do is rooted in their voice and lived experience. We have an exciting opportunity for a Carer Engagement Lead to join our team, in a new role working directly with the CEO to ensure that carers lived experience is heard and understood and that carers, including young carers across Essex, have opportunities to participate and contribute. This is a rewarding and varied role, combining direct engagement with carers alongside analysing data and communicating evidence of need to help effect real and positive change. You will be an engaging communicator with active listening skills and the ability to interpret and apply lived experience to strategic and policy decisions and planning. You will ideally have personal experience of unpaid caring responsibilities and may have previously facilitated service user involvement. You''ll be passionate about harnessing the voice of local carers to secure improved outcomes for carers of all ages across Essex. Action for Family Carers is a thriving charity which for over 35 years has been providing support for Adult Carers and Young Carers - people with unpaid caring responsibilities for others. We are a Carers Trust Network Partner and hold the Excellence for Carers quality mark. We provide support including information, coaching, counselling, peer support, respite care, and Young Carer clubs ..... full job details .....