The post of Carer Advocate, Family Wellness Project is a key addition to CAUSE’s advocacy service supporting families, parents, carers and friends and is funded by Big Lottery Fund under the Reaching Out Supporting Families programme.
About us
CAUSE is a vibrant peer-led carers’ organisation. In this role, you will be working with parents/carers of children aged 5-12 years who are experiencing emotional health and well-being difficulties, or who are at risk of developing a significant mental health condition.
The successful applicant will be working from a base in Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon Council area and providing carer advocacy and support as part of the Family Wellness Project in the Southern and Western Health and Social Care Trust areas.
This is a new role for CAUSE and so you will be joining CAUSE at an exciting stage of our development as a small charity with big ideas!
For more information about the Family Wellness Project go the website link: http://www.parentingni.org/family-wellness-project/
The successful candidate will have personal experience of caring for a child or adolescent who has experienced mental ill health OR caring for loved one who has experienced serious mental illness.
The appointee will be a self-starter who enjoys variety in work, is prepared to work flexibly and preferably have a post-secondary level of education.
Applications can be returned via email to [email protected] or posted to CAUSE Head Office, 393 Holywood Road, Belfast, BT4 2LS. Applications close at 12 noon on Friday 3rd June 2016 and applicants MUST be available for interview on Thursday 9th June 2016.
Closing Date
1:00pm