Salary: £16,218.17 (pro rata of £27,030.29 Fte)
Hours: Part-time 22.5 hours per weeek
Contract: Open Contract
Base: Northallerton Office (with optional Hybird working)
About us:
Carers Plus Yorkshire is a well-established charity of over 30 years, providing information, advice and support to unpaid family Carers and the wider community across multiple districts of North Yorkshire including Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Hambleton and Richmondshire.
The Role:
An Unpaid Carer is someone who provides unpaid support to family, friends or a neighbour in your community who could not manage without this help. This could be, caring for a relative, partner or friend who is ill, frail, disabled, has mental health needs or substance misuse.
The Adult Carer Adviser will provide a service of information, advice, guidance & support, including emotional support for adult carers 18+ in the Hambleton and Richmondshire area.
The successful candidate will follow an unpaid carers journey from assessment to action planning and evaluation of their support.
Raising awareness of unpaid caring and its impact, is an important element of the role, so the candidate should be able to deliver talks and training to carers and professionals to raise awareness within the community. They will be proactive in their approach to support the development of the service, therefore enthusiastic and forward thinking with ideas to reach more carers within the local communities.
If this sounds like the role for you, we offer in return an attractive annual leave package of 25 days plus bank holidays with service length increases up to 30 days plus bank holidays. (Pro rata for part time staff)
Own transport essential due to some rural locations
See full job description and person specification below.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Rachel on 01723 850155.
Please return completed application form and equal opportunities monitoring form (download below), or send your current CV and a specific covering letter, to recruitment@carersplus.net
Job Description
Person Specification
Application Form - editable PDF
Application Form - word version
General Briefing Paper
Equal Opportunities Form
Closing date for applications: 12noon on Monday 22nd December 2025
Interviews will take place on Thursday 15th January at the Northallerton Office.
(If we receive a high volume of applicants we may contact you before the closing date to arrange an alternative interview date or should the right candidate not be recruited the post may remain open)
Do you consider yourself to have a disability as defined by the DDA? If yes, we will guarantee you an interview providing you meet the essential criteria for the post as described in the person spec.
Are you currently a Reservist for the Armed Forces? If yes, we will guarantee you an interview providing you meet the essential criteria for the post as described in the person spec.
(To discuss what is 'essential' criteria please email Rachel on recruitment@carersplus.net )