Shared Lives Coordinator x 2

Dynamo; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the London Borough of Hounslow as a key member of the Adults Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Placements and Brokerage Team. In this entry-level role, you will support vulnerable adults, ensuring they receive the best care possible while promoting their independence. This exciting pilot project offers a chance to make a real difference in the community.

Qualifications

• Passionate about ensuring vulnerable clients receive adequate care.
• Solutions-focused with a flexible approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to communicate with various audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support the shared lives service for vulnerable residents.
• Implement processes to reduce out-of-borough placements.
• Facilitate independent living for clients.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Job description

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About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

About The Role

This is an exciting time to work in the Adults Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Placements and Brokerage Team in Hounslow.

A new opportunity has arisen for an organised individual who is eager to ensure the best value and care is provided for vulnerable adults in the borough. You will be part of an exciting pilot project delivering a shared lives service to vulnerable residents of Hounslow.

• You will be working with partners to effectively deliver the service.
• To support the priorities of developing and implementing the shared lives in house provision to meet the needs of the Learning Disabilities and Mental Health community, and potentially the expansion of the pilot across care groups
• You will support in putting in place processes and practices to prevent/reduce the requirement to place clients with LD/MH specific needs out of borough. By ensuring that you maximise the shared lives programme
• You will have the ability to achieve positive change through a systems approach to problem solving.
• As a placement team, our aim is to successfully place residents in good quality care provision ensuring outcomes are met for our residents, facilitating their progression to as independent life as possible. If successful in your application, you will be at the forefront of the Shared Lives pilot project, demonstrating its value and success.
• You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in service development, review and evaluation.
  
  

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

Hounslow have an ethos of recovery model working and the team are key to the progression of clients through this process. We contract manage those providers that are based within the borough, using audits, unannounced visits, contract monitoring meetings, and quality alert investigation. We have developed a positive working relationship with our providers and continue to develop the market. We are very excited about how this pilot project can potentially change the outcomes for people that use our services.

We joint work closely with our ICB partners, the social work teams and others within commissioning.

About You

• Passionate about ensuring that vulnerable clients receive the level of care/support that they require to enable as independent life as possible.
• To be solutions focused and open to different options and approaches to resolving issues.
• Ability to communicate appropriately with different audiences both within the local authority and with partner agencies, including the ability to non-judgementally challenge service delivery.
• Assessment of the suitability of the accommodation.
• Match potential clients with shared lives providers
• You come with a passion to ensure that the right services are delivered to the right people, in the right way. That independence and potential can be realised, through the least restrictive solution to placement.
• You will have a pragmatic attitude to problem solving, be flexible and adaptable to a changing picture.
• Enhanced DBS check is required.
  
  

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

• Positive attitude.
• Proven interpersonal skills.
• Flexible problem solver.
• Passion for service delivery.
  
  

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email:[e-mail]

Telephone: [phone]

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 22nd May 2025.

(Internal Candidates :please seek line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)

About

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email:[e-mail]

Telephone: [phone]

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 22nd May 2025.

(Internal Candidates :please seek line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)

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