Shared Lives Co-ordinator
6 months ago
**Join the Ategi Team as a Shared Lives Co-ordinator**
**Based in Amersham, Buckinghamshire**
**Salary circa £26,666 per annum depending on experience & qualifications**
**This is an interesting, varied & rewarding opportunity for a committed individual who is looking to progress their career and take on a new challenge**.
**Job details**:
- Full Time (36.5 hours) - Monday to Friday
- Flexible working options, including Hybrid Working.
- Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care or be willing to work towards completing level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care.
Ategi is a not-for-profit organisation operating Shared Lives Schemes across the south of England and South Wales, enabling people to live as independently as possible by providing personalised, community-based, person-centred care, making a real difference in people’s lives.
You will have the ability to work under pressure, to co-ordinate, monitor and assist our shared lives carers who support individuals that have a variety of long term conditions. As a shared lives co-ordinator, you will work closely with shared lives carers to provide support and guidance, monitor service delivery standards and ensure that the carer works in line with relevant codes of practice and other relevant legislation.
We are a people focused organisation, with a great range of benefits. Please see our website for further information and a full Person Specification and Job Description.
A full driving license is essential along with a satisfactory enhanced disclosure check via the criminal records bureau.
**Job Description & Person Specification**
Post**:Shared Lives Co-ordinator**
Accountable to**:Shared Lives - Locality Manager**
**1.** **Aims Of the Service**
To provide a Shared Lives Scheme which is a support service for adults who have a long-term condition and want to live independently in their community alongside someone else in a supportive house-share. There are a variety of people that could be supported:
- a young person in transition from foster care
- someone with a learning disability or physical impairment
- someone living with mental health needs
- someone who is leaving hospital but not quite ready to go home
- The Shared Lives scheme will take care to match Carers to someone with shared interests, lifestyle and sense of humour.
The service aims to:
- Provide a valued high quality flexible and reliable support service.
- Promote each individual’s choice and independence.
- Help to improve the quality of life and assist to maximise and utilise an individual’s own skills.
- Preserve each individual’s dignity, independence and motivation and to understand the stresses, frustrations and embarrassment, which some people suffer and the effect this may have on their acceptance of support.
**Job Purpose**:
To provide support, management and coordination of a number of long term or short term arrangements across a wide geographical area, within the Scheme’s Region.
- To assess and train people who wish to become shared lives carers.
- To work in line with Regulations and National Minimum Standards.
- To identify carers’ skills and abilities and match them effectively with referred people we support.
**Responsibilities**
**Service delivery**
- Provide a person-centred service enabling people to lead full and valid lives within a carers home and community in accordance with their preferences and choices.
- Establish and maintain good working relationships with internal departments, parents, carers/families, advocates, external agencies, and care managers and other professionals and stakeholders to aid the delivery of individualised services; ensuring that the needs of our people we support are met. Additionally, a range of Local Authorities, Housing benefit Departments and benefit agencies.
- Facilitate placement reviews involving people we support, their advocates where necessary, care managers and Shared Lives carers
**Recruitment and selection**
- Develop and contribute to advertising and recruitment campaigns.
- Visiting and interviewing all applicants.
- Completion of initial confidential consent forms to gather personal references; GP references; DBS reports including verbal clarification for all references in line with our procedures.
- Participate in Assistant Coordinator and Administrative staff recruitment including interviewing and involving people we support in the interview process.
**Administration & Finance**
- Completion of formal Shared Lives Agreements and Licence Agreements for each arrangement.
- Maintain effective records and administration in line with Ategi’s policies and procedures.
- Produce clear, detailed reports for reviews; assessments; letters etc.
- Monitor and agree monthly time sheets.
**Management and support of Shared Lives carers**
- Recruit, approve, monitor and support all Shared Lives carers.
- Manage and monitor the performance and training of shared lives carers.
- Support carers to identify gaps in
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