Vacancy Details

Description

Directorate: Adult Social Care&All Age Commissioning

Section: Provider Services

Location: Shared Lives

Grade: Level 7

Actual Salary: £30,060 - £32,654

Hours: 37

 

This advert is open to both Internal and External applicants.

 

This is a fixed term post for 1 year.

 

Do you want to enable people to be as independent as possible and empower individuals to live their best life? Are you looking for a fulfilling role that’s different every day? Are you caring, hardworking, honest and reliable? Well you should join our team!

 

We are looking for a fixed Term Shared Lives Coordinator within our Shared Lives Stoke Service.

 

The Shared Lives Stoke Service matches people who need care and support with an approved carer.

 

The carer shares their family and community life and gives care and support to the person with care needs.

 

The Coordinators role involves:

 

• To recruit, assess, support and deliver training of new carers, providing the specialist knowledge they need to offer the right support to those placed in their family

 

• Matching of people into shared lives placements, monitoring and supporting these placements

 

• Develop and support effective promotional and recruitment campaigns

 

• To contribute towards general service development shaping our services for the future

 

• Participating in the ‘Out of Hours’ support system for carers and to be responsive to crisis and emergencies.

 

• To support and supervise carers, ensuring that they are engaged, enabled, empowered, valued and motivated to provide the best possible care to the people they support

 

• Organise and attend support groups for approved carers as required.

 

Take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment.  This position is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the successful applicant will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

 

Please note that if an employee who is currently at risk of redundancy within the organisation applies for this vacancy their application will receive priority.  If this happens you will be advised accordingly.

 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Stoke-on-Trent City Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this – we therefore encourage applications from all sections of our community. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed together.

 

To Apply

Please create / log into your account and then click 'apply'.  If you have any queries or want an application form in another format, please email recruitment@stoke.gov.uk or call us on 01782 238189.

 

In order to apply for this vacancy, you must be able to supply the required answers to the following questions: