Shared Lives Carer

Ad Warrior Ltd; Leicester Forest East; Remote; GBP 23,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

Ad Warrior Ltd is seeking Shared Lives Carers in Leicestershire to provide supported living placements in your own home for adults with diverse needs. You will be self-employed, receive referrals from the council, and select clients to support, with a maximum of three concurrently.

The role offers flexible hours and generous income tax incentives as you work from home, enabling you to balance caregiving with personal responsibilities. Prior caring experience is helpful but not mandatory.

Qualifications

• Experience in caring is beneficial, but essential qualities include patience, listening, initiative.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and uphold equal opportunities.
• Self-employed carer with flexible hours and home-based placements.

Responsibilities

• Provide long-term and short breaks social care placements in carers' own homes for adults.
• You can accept referrals and look after up to three clients at a time as a self-employed carer.

Skills

Patience

Humor

Active listening

Initiative

Confidentiality

Equal opportunities

Job description

Shared Lives Carer

Location: Leicestershire

Salary: £499- £735 per week

Vacancy Type: Contract

Leicestershire County are looking for carers who want to help their clients to live life to the full.

Carers must live in Leicestershire (not Leicester City).

The Role

Shared Lives Carers provide long-term and short breaks social care placements in their own homes to support people from the age of 18, with learning disabilities, mental health, autism and Asperger's, physical disabilities, sensory impairment or who are living with dementia and older people or who have lifelong disabilities who need personal care support in a homely environment.

The Shared Lives Carer are self-employed. The council will send you referrals for clients which you can choose to accept or decline as you wish, and you can look after a maximum of three clients at a time.

As a self-employed carer, you work from your own home, choose your own hours, and receive generous income tax incentives.

Skills and Qualifications

As a Shared Lives Carer, previous experience of caring would be beneficial, but the following qualities are equally important:

• Patience
• A good sense of humour
• Good listening skills
• Initiative
• The ability to maintain confidentiality
• A commitment to equal opportunities