Overview
Shared Lives Carer – Leicestershire
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
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Leicestershire County Council, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.













