"The best way to show what great career opportunities exist in social care is for care professionals themselves to tell the big wide world about it. They are the industry's best advertisement!"

Invite the Care Ambassadors to visit YOUR 14-19 students!

Care Ambassadors is an exciting initiative funded by Skills for Care and launched nationally to inform people of the careers and training opportunities in the sector.

Care Ambassadors are committed and enthusiastic care staff who are empowered to engage in a programme of promoting care as a career. They visit schools and colleges by arrangement to run lively and informative careers workshops, focus sessions and taster sessions.

What is the Care Ambassador scheme all about?

• Empowering care professionals to represent their sector.
• Raising the profile of careers within social care.
• Enthusing people to consider and take relevant courses to enter social care or develop their qualifications and skills within it.
• Promoting care as a career with a future rather than 'just a job'.
• Care Ambassadors support and offer guidance to people who are interested in a career in social care.

The Care Ambassador role

• Be a social care presence at careers and recruitment events and conferences.
• Provide information on the various areas of work social care has to offer, qualifications and training options, different career routes, job roles, how to get started and where a career in social care can lead.
• Inspire, encourage and offer guidance to those entering social care as a career.
• Act as a link to care providers offering placements, taster sessions and employment.
• Act as mentors within their own workplace, facilitating a creative programme of work experience and taster sessions.
• Care Ambassadors range in age, job roles, service provision, aspiration and training routes.
• Care Ambassadors have appropriate presentation skills training.
• They will act as a direct link for taster session and work experience.
• Care Ambassadors can run workshops to support students'curricula.
• They provide information on what it is really like to work in Social Care from their perspective and direct experience.
• The passion of Care Ambassadors for their work has a huge impact on their audience.

How to get in touch with Care Ambassadors :

Contact your local Care Ambassador Project Co-ordinator (see contact us in top menu)