Employed Shared Lives Carer Employment Contract UK

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

• Provide agreed support within the approved household.
• Enable daily life relationships and community participation.
• Follow placement plans risk and safeguarding controls.
• Maintain boundaries privacy and household safety.
• Record support incidents expenses and scheme communication.

A realistic working scenario

You support a service user in their home under an agreed care plan. You deliver personal care tasks within your delegated authority, use the care planning system and mobility equipment or PPE as required, record handovers and incidents, and contact the registered manager or service lead for safeguarding disclosures, deterioration or medication concerns.

Outputs to agree

• Deliver personal care tasks specified in the care plan within delegated authority and training limits.
• Administer or support medication only where delegated and record medication support in the medication support record.
• Prepare and complete handover notes at shift change and update the care planning system.
• Create incident records for accidents, behavioural incidents or safety events and notify the registered manager or service lead.
• Report and document safeguarding disclosures, suspected data breaches or rapid deterioration to the registered manager or service lead immediately.

Records and evidence

• Care plans and care or support plans in the care planning system.
• Medication support records documenting administration or refusals.
• Handover notes entered at shift change in the care planning system.
• Incident records for accidents, behavioural events or safety incidents.
• Safeguarding records and referrals where a disclosure or concern is raised.
• Care plans.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Registered Manager, Service Manager, Team Leader or Care Coordinator. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

• You may carry out care tasks and use mobility equipment or PPE within the limits set by each service user’s care plan and your delegated authority. You may record medication support but must not alter prescriptions; medication administration beyond delegation must be declined and escalated. You must escalate safeguarding disclosures, suspected data loss, rapid deterioration or any instruction outside your competence to the registered manager or service lead for approval or referral.
• Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

• Care record systems.
• Rostering systems.
• Medication records where authorised.
• Moving and handling equipment where trained.
• Secure communication tools.

Workplace context

• Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

Training and certification

• Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
• Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

• Protect service-user dignity, privacy and wellbeing in every interaction.
• Follow individual care plans and work only within delegated authority and training competence.
• Keep accurate care, medication, handover and incident records in the care planning system.
• Escalate safeguarding disclosures, medication concerns, suspected data misuse and rapid deterioration to the registered manager or service lead without delay.
• Use mobility equipment and PPE appropriately and document any equipment or safety issues.

Information the employer should prepare

• the genuine employment and scheme arrangement
• the approved home household and person supported
• the payment hours respite and absence terms
• the support medicine transport and expense scope
• the matching review safeguarding and ending process