Shared Lives Co-ordinator full-time - Bristol, United Kingdom - Ategi

Description

POST
:
Shared Lives Co-ordinator

RESPONSIBLE TO:
Shared Lives - Locality Manager


RESPONSIBLE FOR:
Shared Lives Carers


SALARY:
£25,139 per annum


CONTRACTED HOURS:
39 hours per week


CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent


LOCATION:
South Gloucestershire registered office, Hybrid working


A little bit about Ategi and Shared Lives:

Ategi are a not-for-profit support provider, with over 25 years' experience of supporting people to live their lives, their way.

We support any adult over 18 who needs help to live independently.

We recruit, train and support self-employed Shared Lives Carers, who offer accommodation and support for adults who need a little extra help to, live independently.

Who we're looking for:

Someone who can co-ordinate with our Shared Lives carers who support vulnerable adults i.e.

Individuals who are elderly, or disabled including physical disabilities, brain injury drug and alcohol misuse, or who have a mental illness or learning disability.

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 service user(s).

Responsibilities

Service delivery

• Provide a personcentred 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 service users are met. Additionally, a range of Local Authorities, Housing benefit Departments and benefit agencies.
• Facilitate placement reviews involving service users, 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 service users 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, train, approve, monitor and support all Shared Lives Carers.
• Manage and monitor the performance of shared lives carers.
• Support Carers to identify gaps in skills and knowledge and engage in professional development.
• Provide detailed reports analysing information gathered through assessment / ongoing support / annual carer review.
• Liaise with the Locality Manager regarding allocation of new work/business.
• Manage a case load of Shared Lives Carers as agreed with the Scheme Manager.

Training

• Deliver training in a flexible way recognising the different needs and circumstances of Shared Lives Carers.
• Identify specialized training needs of Shared Lives Carers.
• To identify and complete mandatory trainings allocated.

Quality Assurance

• Work with Shared Lives Carers to monitor service delivery standards.
• Ensure that the service is delivered in line with relevant codes of practice and other relevant legislation.
• Maintain and approve service provision and participate in any evaluation.
• Adhere at all time to contractual obligations laid down by the local authority.
• Contribute positively to the development of Shared Lives through attendance and membership of Shared Lives Plus.

Organisational responsibilities

• Keep efficient paper and computerised records of work undertaken in line with the data protection act.
• Maintain the utmost confidentiality in line with ategi's policies and procedures.
• Fully support the vision and mission of the Company and contribute to the achievement of any core goals/business objectives set by the management committee.
• Represent the interests of ategi at meetings and conferences.

Personal Development

• Evaluate and develop own practice through full participation in the supervision and appraisal process, attendance at meetings and training session.
• Keep up to date with best practice and ensure this is reflected in the service and contribute to the implementation of change as required.
• Undertake