Policy and Practice Officer (Young Carers and Young Adult Carers) – London

Contract: Permanent, full time contract.

Hours: 35 hours per week (1 FTE)

Salary: £30,000 – £35,000

Location: This is a hybrid role, anchored to the London Carers Trust office 1-2 days a week. It will require travel across England and occasionally the UK.

The Policy and Practice Officer will help drive Carers Trust’s priority to improve support for young carers and young adult carers. You will strengthen our growing policy and parliamentary work, coordinate the ever-growing Young Carers Alliance, and act as the main contact for the Young Carers Covenant.

You will work with a wide range of stakeholders including civil servants, MPs, local carer services and other charity partners, local authorities, health organisations, senior colleagues, and most importantly, young carers and young adult carer services themselves. In this role, you will champion young carers’ voices through public campaigning and private influencing, becoming an expert in the issues they face and the support organisations that work with them.

As the postholder you will:

• Proactively support young carers, young adult carers and local carer organisations to become involved in policy and external affairs activity.
• Build strong links with other organisations across areas such as education, health and social care to ensure that young carers are proactively being considered within policy, research and practice.
• Produce engaging reports, briefings, digital copy and articles for external use outlining and evidencing the need for change and potential solutions.

Please download the attached recruitment pack to find out more.

Have any questions? Please contact our recruitment team on recruitment@carers.org

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Carers Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Carers Trust.

Find out more about Working for Carers Trust

Our vision: Unpaid carers are heard and valued, with access to support, advice and resources to enable them to live fulfilled lives.

Our mission: We work to transform the lives of unpaid carers through collaboration, influence, evidence and innovation.

Carers Trust operates the largest UK-wide network of local carer organisations. Werefer to the 126 carer organisations in our network as Network Partners. NetworkPartners specialise in promoting the wellbeing of unpaid carers and providing themwith information, advice and support specific to their city or region.

Our activities to support unpaid carers and local carer organisations are diverse. We provide infrastructure support for our Network Partners and run programmes around topics such as education and employability. We also have a policy and campaigning function, and are a grantmaker. In addition to our network , we also run the Young Carers Alliance in England and Wales and Young Carers Services Alliance in Scotland, plus a growing network of NHS mental health trusts running an innovative programme to enable unpaid carers to support family members with mental health conditions.

In 2022, we launched our refreshed strategy ‘Building a Caring Society’, which sets out stretching ambitions to ensure that all carers have access to high quality local carer organisations, no carer is pushed into poverty or financially disadvantaged by their caring role and that all unpaid carers, regardless of circumstances or age, are able to enjoy a fulfilling role alongside their caring relationship.