Frontline Manager Shared Lives

Frontline Manager Shared Lives

Job reference:005183

Salary:£32,437.60

Closing date:18/03/2026

Location:Warrington

Job Description

Help create real homes, real belonging, and gloriously ordinary lives

At MacIntyre, we believe everyone deserves a gloriously ordinary life that makes sense to them.

Our Shared Lives arrangements are built on warmth, belonging, and highly personalised support within family homes. As a Shared Lives Manager, you will lead, grow and shape this across your area, supporting Shared Lives Officers, Shared Lives carers, and the people who draw on our support to create safe, meaningful, and lasting matches.

This is a leadership role with real impact. You will be responsible for quality, growth, compliance, and culture across Shared Lives, while embedding MacIntyre’s DNA and Everyone Everywhere into everyday practice.

What you’ll be doing

Leading for people who draw on our support

• Ensuring every person has a voice, choice and control in their life
• Making sure person-centred plans, risk assessments and support guidelines are meaningful and lived
• Building strong relationships with families, advocates, health professionals and local authorities
• Leading reviews, Care Act assessments and multi-disciplinary meetings
• Promoting people’s gifts, passions and community connections
• Embedding Everyone Everywhere in everyday life

Leading and developing your workforce

• Line managing and developing Shared Lives Officers
• Leading recruitment, assessment and approval of Shared Lives carers
• Creating a positive, inclusive and values-led culture
• Ensuring high-quality induction, supervision, and performance support
• Supporting wellbeing, development and professional growth
• Involving the people we support in recruitment decisions

Leading quality, compliance and safeguarding

• Ensuring full CQC, Care Act and Local Authority compliance
• Maintaining excellent records, audits and oversight
• Leading safeguarding practice and risk management
• Preparing for and responding to inspections and audits
• Working closely with Health, PBS, Compliance and Best Practice teams

Growing and sustaining Shared Lives

• Supporting the growth and development of Shared Lives across your area
• Monitoring financial performance and sustainability
• Ensuring effective cover arrangements for carers
• Promoting Shared Lives internally and externally
• Being a visible and positive ambassador for MacIntyre

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About you

We’re looking for someone who lives and breathes MacIntyre’s values and brings:

• Experience of managing staff in a CQC regulated adult social care staff
• Experience leading teams and developing people
• Experience in recruitment, induction and quality assurance
• Strong leadership, communication and organisational skills
• A proactive, visible and solution-focused approach
• Confidence in digital record keeping and reporting
• A UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
• Desirable: Shared Lives or Social Work experience

You’ll also take part in an on-call rota and occasionally work flexibly when needed.

Why this role matters

Shared Lives is one of the most powerful ways we support people to live meaningful, connected lives. As Shared Lives Manager, you are the person who makes this possible, ensuring carers feel supported, officers feel led, and people feel at home.

This is more than a management role.
This is about creating homes where people belong.

About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.

We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.

Pay and Rewards

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
• Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
• You will qualify for a Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)

How to apply
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV. We can't wait to hear from you!

Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement

MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.

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