| Role | Community Engagement Lead (Cambridgeshire) |
| Hours | 37 hours per week, including some evening and weekend working |
| Contract | Permanent |
| Salary | £30,000–£33,500 per annum, depending on experience |
| Location | Hybrid, from home and our St Ives office, with extensive travel across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough |
Many people looking after a parent, partner or child don’t see themselves as a carer, so they never ask for help. If you’re a confident speaker who enjoys meeting new people, we would love for you to help us reach them.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and engaging Community Engagement Lead to increase awareness of unpaid carers, promote the support available through Caring Together Charity and develop strong relationships across the healthcare, community, business and voluntary sectors.
About Caring Together Charity
For over 40 years, Caring Together Charity has been supporting families who are living with an illness or disability.
Our vision is a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated or struggling alone. Three in five of us will become a carer at some point in our lives, and we are here to provide emotional and practical support and advice to unpaid carers of all ages and their families.
About the role
You’ll join our Fundraising and Communications team and plan your own outreach programme, so more carers hear about us sooner. Fundraising colleagues and community volunteers will work alongside you.
What you’ll be doing
- Build links with GP practices, pharmacies and hospitals, and train staff to spot carers.
- Find local events like health fairs and county shows, and run our stand at them.
- Give talks to community groups, faith groups, schools and businesses.
- Help businesses and groups who want to fundraise for us.
- Gather carers’ stories for our newsletter and social media, and keep our CRM up to date.
About you
Must-haves:
- Experience of working with community partners, ideally in health or the voluntary sector.
- Confidence giving talks to all kinds of groups.
- Experience of running stands or displays at events.
- Good organisation and accurate record-keeping, using Microsoft Office.
- A driving licence and own vehicle for county-wide travel, and able to work evenings and weekends.
Nice to haves:
- Understanding of what unpaid carers face (personal experience welcome, never expected).
- Experience of Salesforce or another CRM.
- Experience of supporting volunteers.
If you meet most of the must-haves, please apply. We’d rather hear from you than miss you.
What you can expect
As part of our team, you will receive:
- Hybrid working – exactly how this looks will be role dependant and to be discussed as part of the recruitment process.
- A flexible working culture.
- Competitive salary.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Company pension scheme.
- Death-in-service benefit of three times your annual salary.
- A staff referral scheme offering payments of up to £500.
- Wellbeing programme.
- Paid carers’ leave.
- Development opportunities.
- You will be joining an incredibly dedicated, vibrant and talented team of people, who are deeply passionate about care services which improve people’s lives.
To be considered for this role please submit a covering letter along with your CV to jobs@caringtogether.org
We look forward to hearing from you!
Download our Community Engagement Lead job pack [PDF, 140kB]
Closing date: 30 November 2026 at 9.00am
Interviews anticipated: 8 December 2026
If you’re shortlisted at the initial stage, the first step is an informal conversation, a chance for us both to see if it’s a good fit and for you to ask your own questions.
If you’d like to talk about the role first, or need any adjustments to apply, contact the People team at jobs@caringtogether.org
We are inclusive. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view. We are an equal opportunities employer and expect staff to respect the personal choice and lifestyles of colleagues, carers, and people with care needs.
Caring Together Charity is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and children. The successful candidate will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service check appropriate to the role.
We are currently not registered for the skilled sponsorship programme, therefore we are unfortunately unable to accept any applications in this criterion. Please only apply if you have the relevant UK right to work documentation.
