B&NES Shared Lives Scheme – Respite Stays

Overview

In this role you welcome people into your home as part of the Shared Lives scheme, delivering personalised and high-quality support within a local community. You work with a dedicated coordinator and benefit from full training and a thorough matching process to ensure safe, meaningful placements. The role offers flexible options to fit family life or other work, with attractive tax incentives for households and carers. You play a pivotal part in safeguarding and enriching the lives of adults and children who need support.

Pay / Benefits

• full training
• dedicated coordinator support
• detailed matching process
• tax incentives for Shared Lives households
• potential to provide respite care
• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Register new Shared Lives carer households and participate in the matching process with potential clients
• Provide high-quality, personalised support in your own home
• Coordinate respite stays, ensuring a suitably equipped bedroom is available
• Complete safeguarding and recruitment processes (DBS check and local authority check)
• Engage in full scheme training and ongoing guidance from a dedicated coordinator
• Work with the scheme to promote safety, wellbeing, and community integration
• Explore flexible working options and contribute to continuous improvement of the service

Key requirements

• Enhanced DBS check
• Local authority check
• Ability to welcome and support a person in your home
• Commitment to safeguarding and welfare of vulnerable adults and children

• empathy
• strong communication
• reliability
• flexibility
• team collaboration
• person-centered approach

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