Supporting Working Carers; Help Your Employees Thrive!
Working carers are a vital part of every workforce, yet many struggle to balance employment with caring responsibilities.
Without the right support, carers are at greater risk of stress, ill health and leaving work altogether.
By creating a carer-friendly workplace, you can retain valuable employees, improve wellbeing, reduce absence, and demonstrate your commitment to an inclusive and supportive working environment.
Why Become a Carer-Friendly Employer?
Supporting working carers helps your organisation to:
- Retain experienced, skilled and loyal employees
- Reduce stress-related sickness absence
- Improve employee wellbeing and engagement
- Strengthen recruitment and induction processes
- Increase awareness and uptake of Carer’s Leave
- Meet legal responsibilities and best practice
- Build a positive, inclusive workplace culture
Supporting carers isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s good for your people, your organisation and your community.
How Carers’ Resource Can Help?
We work with employers of all sizes to create practical, sustainable support for employees with caring responsibilities.
Our FREE support can help you:
- Develop carer-friendly workplace policies
- Increase employee confidence to disclose their caring role
- Raise awareness of carers’ rights and available support
- Train managers to better support working carers
- Improve retention and reduce the risk of staff reaching crisis point
- Measure the impact of your initiatives through meaningful outcomes and KPIs
Whether you’re just getting started or looking to build on existing support, we can tailor our services to meet your organisation’s needs.
Creating Lasting Impact
Investing in working carers delivers benefits that extend beyond your organisation.
Together we can help to:
- Keep more local people in employment
- Reduce demand on health and social care services
- Strengthen the local economy
- Build more resilient communities
- Reduce health inequalities
- Promote equality, diversity and inclusion through fairer employment opportunities and greater gender equality
Ready to Support Your Working Carers?
Creating a carer-friendly workplace starts with a conversation.
Get in touch to discuss how Carers’ Resource can support your organisation with practical advice, training and tailored solutions.
Book an employer consultation to explore your current approach and identify opportunities to better support your workforce.
Together, we can help your employees stay in work while continuing to care for those who need them most.
Contact Natalie Kershaw our Employer Engagement Officer on 01274 449660 or email: nkershaw@carersresource.org and engage@carersresource.org
