We’re Hiring!
North Ayrshire Carers Gateway are looking to fill several roles, find out more in this post.
Unity Carer Centers offer specialist information, support advocacy and advice. Respite away from the role in the form of day trips, health and wellbeing services, social activities and peer support from fellow carers.
If you are an unpaid or family carer of almost any age you can access support from our Carer Centres in South and North Ayrshire (including Arran and Cumbrae).
The person receiving care can be a relative, friend or neighbor. Care can be provided in more simplistic ways such as helping with the weekly shop to cooking meals. Support is not restricted to physical care but can be also emotional support ranging from just giving a listening ear or taking care of their financial affairs or their own health.
“A person who provides physical or emotional care to family or friend”
A young carer is between the age of eight and eighteen years old who provides support to a family member, whose life is affected by alcohol and or drug misuse, mental or physical illness or disability and who may have emotional and physical responsibilities beyond those normally given to children of their age.
Young adult carers are between the age of 18 and 25 years old. Again similar to young carers they may be looking after their mother, father, brother, sister, and grandparents but at this older age this might extend to close friends or partner.
Looking for some respite away from your caring role?
You can apply for funding towards the following items as examples:
If you would like more information, please call the centre on South 01292 263000 North 01294 311333 or alternatively email us at southayrshire.carers@unity-enterprise.com or northayrshire.carers@unity-enterprise.com
An adult carer is 18 years or older. Each carer and the person they provide support for is an individual so the support that is provided will be unique to them. However, there are certain roles and tasks that many carers can and do provide, and these can typically include the following:
There are lots of different circumstances that can lead to a person being supported by a carer, and these may include any one or more of the following:
Providing care and support for individuals with a range of complex health conditions can be challenging. Due to a variety of unforeseen circumstances the level of input an individual requires, and the subsequent demands on the carer, can change frequently and dramatically. We recognise a change in circumstances can have a significant impact on the carer in respect of their own health and wellbeing.
An Adult Carer Support Plan is an important way of identifying your needs as an unpaid carer. One of our Social Workers or one of the team from North or South Ayrshire Carers Centre will arrange a good time to meet you to have an informal discussion about your caring role.
The support plan gives you the opportunity to identify the following:
Following the Adult Carers Support Plan discussion, we will make a plan to help support you. We will also let you know whether your needs are “eligible” for support from the local Health and Social Care Partnership. We use Local Eligibility Criteria to help us make this decision.
We will meet the needs of carers whose needs are Critical and Substantial. If you do not have needs that are Critical or Substantial, we will give you information and advice, including what local support is available. This could include, for example, help from North or South Ayrshire Carers Centre.
If at any time you feel that things you do to look after your relative or friend has changed or increased you can ask for a review of your Adult Carer Support Plan.
If you think an Adult Carer Support Plan could benefit you, please contact your local South Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership office on 0300 123 0900m, or for North Ayrshire contact your local Health and Social Care Partnership office.
You can also contact North and South Carers Centre directly via the contact page on this website, we can discuss and complete an Adult Carer Support Plan with you.
South Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership’s draft Adult Carers Strategy 2018-2023 sets out what we will to do over the next five years to better support Adult Carers in South Ayrshire.
Carers, carer organisations and partners, including South Ayrshire Carers Centre, Crossroads and Ayrshire Hospice have been involved in the development of the draft Strategy.
We now want to hear your views on the draft Strategy, so please complete the short survey. Your feedback will help to inform the final version of the Strategy.
www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/consultations/draft-adult-carers-strategy/
South Ayrshire Carers Centre
43 Sandgate,
Ayr
KA7 1DA
Tel: 01292 263000
You can email us via the contact page.
North Ayrshire Carers Centre
174 High St,
Irvine
KA12 8AN
Tel: 01294 311333
You can email us via the contact page.
North Ayrshire Carers Gateway are looking to fill several roles, find out more in this post.
We have lots of exciting news this month including news of our service expanding. View our upcoming events and read all about our adventures in our newsletter.
All the latest news and service updates from South Ayrshire Carers Centre.
See what the South Ayrshire Carers have been up to and read about upcoming events in the South Ayrshire Carers Newsletter for May 2023. Download your copy here:
2022 was another busy year for the Carers Centre, in the newsletter we take a look back at everything that happened, as well as upcoming events including an invite to a film premier from some extremly talented South Ayrshire young carers!
All the latest news and service updates from South Ayrshire Carers Centre.
All the latest news and service updates from North Ayrshire Carers Centre.
Download our newsletters for January and find out the latest news from North and South Ayrshire Carers Centers
The Scottish government and Visit Scotland have launched the ScotSpirit holiday fund to help give carers a break from their caring role. Apply Now.
Looking for some respite away from your caring role?
All the latest news and service updates from South Ayrshire Carers Centre.
I would like to take this chance to wish everyone well and to remain safe during the recent challenging situation we are all facing and of course is unprecedented, covid-19. I hope you and your families are all keeping well during this difficult time and there is no doubt that…
In this issue: · Adult Support Plan & Young Carers Statement information. · What’s on · Young Carers News
Happy New Year from all at Unity! Get the latest news from North Ayrshire Carers centre covering Upcoming Events, Therapies, Young Carers news and more.
Read about all the latest news, events and information from Unity Enterprise South Ayrshire Carers Centre.
Find out all the latest news and events at North Ayrshire Carers Centre in our Newsletter
Catch up with all the latest Carer’s news for South Ayrshire in our Summer Newsletter. You can download the newsletter from this link.
Catch up with all the latest Carer’s news for North Ayrshire in our May Newsletter. You can download the newsletter from this link.
South Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership are keen to hear the views of local service users and potential service users on advocacy, as well as raise more awareness for these local services.
South Ayrshire Health Social Care Partnership have developed a new Social Isolation and Loneliness strategy 2018-2027. You can download the criteria, or take the survey via the links below.
Big hearted members of the Rotary Club of Troon have raised £2000 for the South Ayrshire Carers Centre. The fantastic amount will allow the group to offer carers some fantastic opportunities to get away for the day through the summer. The money will be split by area meaning that carers all across South Ayrshire will have the…
One of our Young Adult Carers has won British Care Giver of the Year, from National Accident Helpline. Kayleigh, 18, has been helping looking after her Dad since she was 12. She won a trip to London and a cash prize as well as this fancy trophy. She is delighted…
Join us on 6-10th June for Carers Week at our South Ayrshire Carer’s Centre.
This following article originally appeared in the Ayrshire Post October 2015. A charity supporting unpaid carers is to dish out cash grants for respite trips. The Unity Enterprise Centre supports unsung heroes across South Ayrshire. And more than 200 people have benefited from £20,000 of grants within the last year. Now…