SCAFT - Supporting Carers & Families Together

12/10/2026

We're recruiting!

Due to growing demands for our services, we are looking for caring, dedicated people to join our team and support our Young Carers aged 6-18 years old.

Experience working with children and young people would be an advantage.

✨Young Carers Session Worker
📍Location: Rayleigh and/or Rochford
🕐Hours: Max 3 hours per week, term-time only, Monday evenings

✨Young Carers One2One Support Worker
📍Location: Local primary and secondary schools across the Rochford District
🕐Hours: Flexible, term-time only. Hours are offered based on school and service needs. Currently around 1 to10 hours per week, with potential to increase. Ideal for someone looking for work that fits around other commitments.

✨Young Carers Service Delivery Manager
📍Location: Office located in Rayleigh
🕐Hours negotiable

For further information or to apply:

🌐https://scaft.org/
📧[email protected]

SCAFT - Supporting Carers and Families. The object of our organisation is to relieve the social, emotional, mental, physical and educational needs of Carers and their families in the county of Essex through the provision of support, person and group centered interventions, advice, guidance and sign....

05/08/2026

Essex Lottery Summer Super Draw - Support SCAFT and have chance to win a holiday!

Supporting Carers and Families Together is offering you the chance to win big prizes and help raise much needed funds.

28/07/2026

Following many conversations with our young carers and their families, many expressed how difficult the long summer break could be without any additional respite and support.
Once again we’re pleased to say that The National Lottery Community Fund agreed additional funding to enable us to offer a series of 4 groups during this years summer break.
These groups will be for any child or young person who is registered to attend any of our groups (includes both age groups and both Rayleigh and Rochford venues). Those who only attend One2One sessions in schools could also attend, however, we will require updated parental consent and emergency details first.
Numbers will be limited and we will need to know in advance how many are attending at each session so pre-booking is required. This is to ensure adequate levels of supervision, refreshments, etc.)
We will release more details nearer the time and are hoping to include a schedule of activities so everyone knows what is coming up in advance.

16/07/2026

Don't forget there is help available this summer....

New measures this summer to reduce the cost of days out, travel and getting around for families with children.

07/07/2026

Healthwatch Essex are looking for your help to develop better support for carers when accessing health appointments, your views and experiences are important to them and you can share them via the address in the poster below...

29/06/2026

We just received a fantastic offer for our young carers to attend the below Tennis and Sports Camp over the summer for free! Please call the number on the poster for more details and to book a place.

24/06/2026

A date for your diaries, especially for those that are home educated....

03/06/2026

We are thankful for our amazing volunteers all year round, but Volunteers Week gives us a perfect opportunity to publicly acknowledge that we couldn't do what we do without them. The contribution and commitment of our volunteers to supporting young carers is simply awesome, with many having been with us the entire 17 years of SCAFT's existence! Thank you to you all for your hard work, reliability, sharing your skills and experience, and your care and compassion for others.

03/06/2026

Date for your diaries:

Join Essex County Council for the Learning Disabilities Festival, celebrating Learning Disabilities Week 2026.

20/05/2026

We love to hear how people are doing once they move on from our Young Carers groups, so this afternoon it was great when Alfie Kempen popped in to see us, nearly 6 years on. A real chance to catch up on the challenges life has thrown at him since and to hear about him building a career in the Ambulance service. It's really affirming to hear the contribution that SCAFT's support played in Alfie's journey so-far and that things learnt then, continue to play such a significant role in his life now; although like all young carers, Alfie always was an amazing young man all on his own.

Lovely to see you Alfie and we look forward to seeing more of you soon!