Are you a family carer living in Kent or Medway with experience in caring for someone with a severe learning disability whose behaviour challenges?
Are you passionate about working together to improve services for families in the South East?
The Challenging Behaviour Foundation has an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of the Forward Together Project plan (a new 3-year project funded by the National Lottery).
About Us
The Challenging Behaviour Foundation is a registered national charity (based in Kent) that makes a difference to the lives of children and adults with severe learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges, and their families. We have a reputation for driving change at an individual, local, and national level.
Position: Family Carer Project Worker – Kent and Medway
Hours: 4 hours a week, worked flexibly
Contract:Fixed term contract (to end June 2027)
Salary:
Location:Home based (you must live in Kent/Medway) plus attendance at events*
* Will require some attendance at online meetings during core office hours and attendance at two Community of Practice events per year, which will take place in person within Kent/Medway.
The Role:
To utilise your lived experience to support the delivery of the Forward Together Project plan to improve services and support for people with severe learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges, and their family carers in the Southeast.
You will:
- Use your experience and local/regional knowledge to identify key individuals, groups and initiatives to engage in the project
- Work collaboratively with family carers and stakeholders, facilitate meetings and implement follow up actions
- Contribute your own lived experience
You will have:
- Lived experience of caring for a relative with severe learning disabilities and behaviour described as challenging
- The ability to create and maintain positive and collaborative relationships with family carers and other stakeholders
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- A passion for making a difference to the lives of individuals with severe learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge, and their families
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
How to apply:
If you are passionate about our mission and would like to share your lived experiences to improve the lives of children and adults with severe learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges, please apply by sending us a cover letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) detailing why you are interested in this role.
Email us your covering letter (that outlines how you meet the essential criteria in the job specification) to recruitment@thecbf.org.uk.
If you have any questions about this role or would like to have an informal chat, please contact Taylor Anderson or Coral Histed by emailing info@thecbf.org.uk or calling 01634 838739.
Application Deadline:
Rolling Deadline – We will be reviewing applications as they come in, with the view to hold interviews in late January 2026. We will close applications once we have found a suitable candidate. We recommend applying as soon as possible.
Join us in making a lasting impact and creating a more inclusive and supportive community for children and adults with severe learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge, and their families! Your participation can help people with severe learning disabilities receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
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