Shared Lives Officer
Shared Lives Officer
Job Description
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At MacIntyre, we believe everyone deserves a gloriously ordinary life that makes sense to them. Our Shared Lives scheme offers personalised care and support within a family environment, unlocking opportunities for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism to live meaningful, connected lives. As a Shared Lives Officer, you will be at the heart of this, creating compatible and lasting matches between Shared Lives carers and people drawing on our support, and ensuring everyone involved feels valued, supported, and truly at home.
About the Role
As a Shared Lives Officer, you’ll manage a caseload of Shared Lives carers and the people who draw on our support, ensuring personalised, safe and effective care within family homes. You will:
Support people who draw on our service by:
- Getting to know people well, building strong, respectful relationships through home visits and regular check-ins
- Creating great matches between people and carers
- Planning support together, reviewing support plans and risk assessments to ensure support is genuinely person-centred
- Navigating the practicalities, supporting benefits applications and making sense of essential paperwork
- Speaking up for people, advocating for people during reviews and case conferences to make sure everyone’s voice is heard
- Collaborating with professionals to achieve the best possible outcomes
Support Shared Lives carers by:
- Helping carers feel confident and connected, offering a steady presence and trusted sounding board through regular mentoring and supervision
- Delivering a warm welcome, leading inductions and promoting ongoing learning and development
- Bringing people together at carer support meetings, creating opportunities to share experiences
- Planning for the unexpected, supporting carers with breaks, emergencies, and anything else life may throw their way
- Using your expertise to navigate policies and regulatory requirements, ensuring confidence and compliance in all areas
Ensure service compliance and quality by:
- Keeping accurate, up-to-date records including MAR sheets, support plans, and risk assessments
- Conducting regular medication and finance audits
- Responding quickly and thoughtfully to safeguarding concerns, prioritising the wellbeing of those involved
- Contributing to CQC inspections and professional reviews, maintaining high standards of support
- Working in partnership with our Compliance, Health, PBS and Best Practice teams
Contribute to service sustainability by:
- Supporting the growth and development of the Shared Lives scheme
- Ensuring cost-effective delivery, through strategic planning of leave and resource allocation
- Championing the success of Shared Lives arrangements with pride to secure long-term outcomes for all involved
About You
We’re looking for someone who shares our values and has:
- A current UK driving licence and access to a vehicle insured for business use
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- The ability to work independently and as part of a team
- A creative, flexible and solution-focused mind-set
- Good organisational skills and attention to detail
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- A commitment to the values and vision of MacIntyre
This is a unique opportunity to support people to live full, connected lives in loving family homes, while also ensuring our carers feel equipped, supported and appreciated. If you’re keen to be part of something bigger and build genuine, lasting connections, we would love to hear from you.
About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.
We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.
Pay and Rewards
We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:
- Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
- Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
- MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
- Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
- Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
- MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
- Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
- MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
- MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
- You will qualify for a Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
- Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)
Training and Development
At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.
But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all on MacIntyre!.
How to apply
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.
Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call us 01908 357 016 and we will send an application form to you.
Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.
Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement
MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.
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