Carer Wellbeing Worker - Arun, Adur and Worthing

Carers Support West Sussex; Worthing; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in Worthing seeks a Carer Wellbeing Worker to provide tailored services to improve carers' resilience. The role includes offering personalized guidance, maintaining accurate records, and empowering carers in their decision-making. Candidates should possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and have a background or experience in social care. The position involves community engagement and may require travelling across the region. A flexible working arrangement is available, with an emphasis on inclusivity and professional development.

Benefits

Training and Development opportunities

Flexible working hours and remote working options

33 days annual leave increasing to 36 days after 5 years

Healthcare and Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Pay

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Experience of working within social care and health.
• Ability to offer one-to-one and group support.
• Willingness to travel across Adur, Arun, and Worthing.

Responsibilities

• Provide tailored information and guidance to carers.
• Record all interventions accurately on the Client Record Management System.
• Enable carers to articulate their needs and priorities.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Experience working with adults and families

Job description

Carer Wellbeing Workers provide invaluable services to help improve carers’ resilience and ensure they are supported to maintain their caring roles. They provide tailored information and advice, practical, emotional and planning support, peer opportunities, contingency planning, active listening and through partnership working are pro‑active in the identification of carers.

Using experience of working with adults and families, a working knowledge and / or lived experience of social care and health, the postholder will use excellent communication and interpersonal skills to offer carers one‑to‑one and group support either face to face, via the telephone or using virtual video mediums such as Zoom or MS Teams.

The role is a mix of remote / homeworking and community venues. You will be expected to be readily able to travel across Adur, Arun and Worthing to deliver carer support and on occasion to venues across the County to attend meetings and training as required.

Interview Date: 19-21 January 2026.

Key Role Summary

Information & Guidance : Offer tailored, personalised information, guidance, emotional, and practical support to carers, helping them navigate local services and make informed decisions.

Empower : Enable carers to communicate issues important to them, set their own priorities, and articulate their needs and wishes.

Community Presence : Work as part of the team to maintain a presence in the community, delivering support through various channels and formats.

Data Recording : Accurately record all interventions on the Client Record Management System to enable timely and informative reports, ensuring decisions are evidenced and all actions recorded.

For a full list of responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description in the Recruitment Pack.

Employee Benefits

• Training and Development : Opportunities for professional development and training.
• Flexible Working : Flexible working hours and remote working options.
• Annual Leave : 33 days increasing to 35 days after completion of two years and 36 days after 5 years of service (inclusive of Bank Holidays).
• Healthcare and Employee Assistance Programme with perks and discounts.
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Pay.
• Supportive Environment : Work in a supportive and collaborative environment with a focus on making a positive impact on the lives of carers.

Before you keep reading ...

Please do not see everything in this job advert as a "Must Have", but rather a guiding list of what we are looking for. We know no candidate will be the perfect match for all we have mentioned in this advert, so do not be afraid to apply if you feel you are close to the brief but not "Spot On". For example, some of our wonderful Carer Wellbeing Workers come from a non-social care background and they do amazingly well!

Our Culture and Diversity

At Carers Support, we are building aninclusive workplacewhereeveryone can do their best workandbe proud to belong.

We believe that talent is distributed to all of us in equal measure and our differences are a strength not a weakness. We recruit for potential, not perfection. At Carers Support West Sussex, we value everyone's unique history. Our doors are open to individuals of all races, religions or beliefs, abilities, ages, nationalities or citizenships, ethnic origins, marital, domestic or civil partnership statuses, sexes, sexual orientations, family structures, and gender identities.

The carers we support come from such different walks of life that we are particularly interested in attracting candidates from similarly diverse backgrounds, including Asian, Arab, Black, Mixed / Multiple Ethnic Groups, White Other (e.g. Eastern European, Gypsy, Roma)and any other Ethnic minorities.

Values we are looking for in Candidate

We are focused, putting carers at the heart of everything we do.

We act together, working with and for carers, the communities they live in and the people that can make a difference to them.

We are leaders, working with each other to find potential and opportunities across all communities, enabling carers to be identified and involved.

We are committed to behaviours that support :

Quality– the highest practical level we can reach in outcomes, learning and behaviour

Inclusivity– respecting people, cultures, and organisations

Caring– improving quality of life and influencing behaviour change

Integrity– operating with honesty and reliability

Loyalty– long‑term committed partnerships and co‑operation

Innovation– driving our service development and our will to succeed

Disclaimers

Please note we reserve the right to close this role prior to the stated end date, should we receive a sufficient number of applications. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered.