- Would you liked to be part of a small and dynamic team committed to supporting carers and people they support ?
- Are you keen to make a real difference to the quality of lives of vulnerable Adults?
- Do you enjoy working with Adults with Learning Disablites and mental Health to help them live their best life?
Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking a motivated and experienced Shared Lives Officer to join the Adult Provider Serviice This role involves supporting carers and vulnerable people that live with them within a CQC-registered Shared Lives scheme, ensuring high-quality, person-centred care and compliance with regulatory standards.
Interviews to be held: TBA
There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Kim Foster on
07544 656343 or email [email protected]
About the role
you will need:
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NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification in a related area
- Sound understanding of the support needs of carers
- Sound understanding of the accommodation needs of vulnerable people.
Tasks and experience:
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Recruit carers through a range of promotional activities
- Carry out comprehensive assessments of prospective carers, including statutory checks and references
- Provide information to carers and potential carers about their roles and responsibilities within the CQC-registered service
- Ensure carers complete essential training and maintain ongoing compliance
- Provide a matching service for clients, enabling informed decisions about placements
- Support carers in their role through professional, practical, and emotional support
- Conduct quarterly and annual review meetings to ensure compliance with CQC requirements.
- Deliver training to carers where required, particularly around medication competency
- Participate in multi-disci.plinary meetings and reviews
- Liaise with children’s and young person services to support tras where requirednsitions to adult services
- Provide cover for colleague
- Facilitate regular carer meetings and coordinate annual feedback
- Contribute to the development of the service as part of the wider team
- Ensure accurate and timely record keeping
- Adhere to the Council’s Equalities Policy and behaviour framework
- Follow the Council’s Health and Safety policies
Skills and experience required:
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Substantial experience working with vulnerable adults
- Experience assessing needs within person-centred services
- Experience working in an inspected or regulated service
- Experience managing staff and/or contract delivery
- Experience dealing with sensitive and/or difficult issues
- Experience supporting the learning and development of others
- Experience delivering training
- Significant experience working collaboratively with a range of professionals
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to manage workload, prioritise, and meet deadlines
- Ability to provide effective support
- Ability to work creatively with carers and service users to implement support plans.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:
- be connected
- be confident
- be innovative and creative
- be diverse and inclusive
- be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.
How to apply
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.AI advice for candidates
We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.
We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.
All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
