Adult Carer Adviser (Veterans)
Date Posted: 07/05/26
Job Title: Adult Carer Adviser (Veterans)
Salary: £18,020.19 (pro rata of £27,030.29 Fte)
Hours: Part-time 25 hours per week
Contract: Fixed-term for 3 years (Funded by Veterans’ Foundation)
Base: Northallerton Office (with optional Hybrid working once probation is completed)
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.
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 Adviser to Unpaid Carers (Veterans) will provide a service of information, advice, guidance & support, including emotional support for adult carers 18+ who are veterans themselves or care for a veteran 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 amongst the veteran community, is an important element of the role, so the candidate should be able to deliver talks, training and network with carers and professionals to raise awareness within the veteran 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 veteran carers within the local communities.
If this sounds like the role for you, we offer in return an attractive annual leave package plus bank holidays with service length increases. (Pro rata for part time staff)
Own transport essential due to some rural locations
The role is 25 hours per week, please specify at application how you may wish to work these hours between Mon-Fri as we are flexible to both your needs and the clients we support.
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
This is an open recruitment process with applications reviewed on a rolling basis. The position will remain open until the appropriate candidate is found.
Please let us know on application if there is any date you might not be available to make an interview.
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
