Adult Placement Scheme

What is the Adult Placement Scheme?

The Adult Placement Scheme is a service supporting adults with learning disabilities to access greater everyday life opportunities within the local community. We achieve this by recruiting, training & supporting Adult Placement Carers & working alongside people with learning disabilities, to look at the most suitable match for them and their individual needs.

The Adult Placement Scheme places between one and a maximum of three adults with care or support needs with an assessed and trained Adult Placement Carer to enable the person to access and enjoy a more independent life whilst still maintaining, sharing & contributing towards a valuable family lifestyle.

The Adult placement Scheme Bedfordshire is currently recruiting Adult  Placement Carers who can provide anything from a few hours a week / month, during the day, evenings or weekends or short and longer term support and accommodation.

Who can be an Adult Placement Carer?

Adult Placement scheme is open to anyone who lives within Bedfordshire who would like the opportunity to offer support and life experiences to adults with learning disabilities.

Adult Placement Carers can be single people, couples, families in fact anyone that demonstrates the right type of qualities required to carry out the role. It is not essential that you have worked in a care environment or even had experience of people with learning disabilities and qualifications are not required.

The main qualities that are required are patience, empathy a sense of humour and the ability to meet the challenges that are presented by everyday life. All potential Adult Placement Carers and their families are required to undergo relevant screening checks which will include applications to the Criminal Records Bureau and the individual’s doctor to ensure that they are suitable candidates to carry out the role.

Do I need experience?

You don’t need to have care work experience or even experience of people with learning disabilities as the Adult Placement Scheme will assist you in every aspect of the support you provide. Even if you can spare a few hours a week or a few hours a month then the Adult Placement Scheme would like to hear from you.

Why would I want to be an Adult Placement Carer?

Becoming an Adult Placement Carer is an excellent opportunity to offer people  with learning disabilities the chance to share in the many different aspects of everyday life. It’s also a great opportunity for Adult Placement Carer to enjoy the experience, challenge, sense of achievement and positive feedback you can get from working with people with learning disabilities. From your initial application onwards the Adult Placement Scheme will provide training & ongoing support to enable you to assist individuals and meet their needs as well as develop your own skills and knowledge in this area. The Adult Placement Scheme also offers regular supervision, ongoing monitoring support, and further opportunities to develop.

Adult Placement Carers also receive competitive financial payments for the support or sessions that they provide.

I'm interested but not sure

If you are interested in becoming an Adult Placement Carer but are unsure or concerned then why not give the scheme manager a call to have an informal chat. We won’t try and put any pressure on you but we will try and answer your questions, queries or concerns.

Who monitors the Adult Placement Scheme?

The Adult Placement Scheme Bedfordshire is a registered service that is monitored and inspected by the Commission for Social Care Inspection.