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Shared Lives Carer (Day services) - social care

Job details
Posting date: 28 March 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: Shared Lives Carers are classed as self-employed and receive generous tax incentives
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 27 April 2025
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Remote working: Fully remote
Company: Leicestershire County Council Shared Lives Service
Job type: Contract
Job reference: SHLDWP-DS25-04

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Summary

Shared Lives Carers open their homes to provide social care and day services for three or six hours a day. These sessions are for 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 and are arranged around the needs of the client.

As a self-employed carer, you work from your own home, choose your own hours, receive generous income tax incentives and can earn up to £252 per day (increasing to £258 per day w.e.f. 7 April 2025). From the moment you decide to become a Shared Lives carer we provide a dedicated support worker to guide you.

To find out more about Leicestershire’s Shared Lives Service call 0116 305 8133 or visit https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/adult-social-care-and-health/working-in-care/become-a-shared-lives-carer.

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