Join the team
Carers Network employs a small professional staff team to deliver our services for carers, manage our finances and raise funds to support our vital work. See below for any roles that we are currently recruiting for.
We work hard, support each other and have fun too.
Our staff work from home and in our offices in Queen’s Park. Our employment package includes a 5 per cent pension contribution, flexible working and 25 days annual leave, increasing by a day per year up to 29 days.
Current Vacancies:
Carers Caseworker
- Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
- Salary: £26,600 per year reviewed after 6-months’ probation period)
- Hours: 37.5 per week, to include some unsocial hours (occasionally)
- Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays
- Application deadline: 03/03/2025
Join Carers Network to be part of our Casework team and work providing unpaid carers with support, by providing a confidential listening ear and one-to-one information and advice. This will include carrying out carers assessments and creating individual support plans, tailored to each carer's needs. They will also develop excellent working relationships with partner organisations, to raise awareness of carers’ rights and needs. You need to be empathetic but also be very organized, great at administration and have excellent IT skills. We are keen to attract former carers to join our team.
Our team is currently working on a hybrid basis, offering the opportunity to work from home and our offices near Queen’s Park tube station.
The ability to speak a community language would be advantageous.
To apply:
Download the job description and person specification for this post here.
Send us your cover letter and your CV to recruitment@carers-network.org.uk
Please note applications with cover letters are more likely to be short-listed. Use the list provided in the Person Specification to describe in your cover letter how you meet each of the specifications.
If you would like to have an informal chat about the role, please contact Sandie Roberts, Service Manager, on sandie.roberts@carers-network.org.uk.
Information, Advice and Guidance Officer
- Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
- Salary: £26,600 per year reviewed after 6-months’ probation period)
- Hours: 37.5 per week, to include some unsocial hours (occasionally)
- Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays
- Application deadline: 03/03/2025
Join Carers Network to be part of our well-established Information, Advice and Guidance team and work providing unpaid adult carers with support on a variety of subjects such as carers’ rights and entitlements, basic welfare benefits information, making sense of forms and paperwork, or accessing support for the person they look after. You will also be a very organised individual, great at administration and have excellent IT skills. We are keen to attract former carers to join our team.
Our team is currently working on a hybrid basis, offering the opportunity to work from home and our offices near Queen’s Park tube station.
The ability to speak a community language would be advantageous.
To apply:
Download the complete job description and person specification for this post here.
Send us your cover letter and your CV to recruitment@carers-network.org.uk.
Please note applications with cover letters are more likely to be short-listed. Use the list provided in the Person Specification below to describe in your cover letter how you meet each of the specifications.
If you would like to have an informal chat about the role, please contact Chloe Theobald, Service Manager, on chloe.theobald@carers-network.org.uk
Carers Network is recruiting for role of Finance Manager
- Location: Hybrid working at our office at the Beethoven Centre and from home
- Salary: £9,000 pa (£45,000 FTE)
- Contract: Permanent
- Notice period: One month and then three months after successful completion of 6 month probation
- Hours: 7.5 per week
- Reporting to: Chief Executive
- Responsible for: Finance Officer
- Holiday: 25 days per annum pro-rata
- Start Date: As soon as practicable
Download Job Description and Person Specification here
Please email your CV to brian.jones@carers-network.org.uk
Closing Date: 28 February 2025
Carers Network is now seeking new Trustees
Carers Network is an independent local charity. Our vision is that every unpaid carer is recognised and leads a healthy, fulfilling life with control over their caring role. Our work reaches over 7,000 unpaid carers in the most isolated and deprived pockets of the City of Westminster, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. We have been proudly supporting carers in central London since 1991.
We are compassionate: We listen to what carers want and work with them – with kindness, sensitivity and understanding. We are proactive: We take responsibility for getting carers the help they need. We make a difference: We actively work to make a positive change in carers’ lives. Carers Network is an independent local charity. Our vision is that every unpaid carer is recognised and leads a healthy, fulfilling life with control over their caring role. Our work reaches over 7,000 unpaid carers in the most isolated and deprived pockets of the City of Westminster, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. We have been proudly supporting carers in central London since 1991.
The organisation is now seeking new Trustees.
The Board of Trustees is responsible for the overall governance and strategic direction of the charity, developing the organisation’s aims, objectives and goals in accordance with the governing document and legal & regulatory guidelines. Carers Network particularly encourages applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with lived experience of caring.
If you would like to find out more about the role, please email the Chief Executive, Brian Jones at brian.jones@carers-network.org.uk for an information discussion.