Adult Placement Service (APS) / Shared Lives

Cardiff Council is seeking to understand the market from providers who are committed to delivering Adult Placement Services (APS) / Shared Lives
The Provider will be able to arranges long-term accommodation and support and short breaks in the homes of carefully chosen. assessed, trained and supported people, who are known as ‘Shared Lives Cares’, to adults who have been assessed in accordance with the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and have identified individual outcomes.
The population groups, the Adult Placement Service (APS) / Shared Lives, is required to support are for adults who have:
• Learning Disabilities and or Autism
• Neurodivergent needs.
• Age-related care and support needs including Dementia
• Physical / Sensory Disabilities
• Mental ill Health
• Drug & Alcohol Misuse
The Provider will have accessible office facilities locally from where the services will be coordinated and managed.
The Adult Placement Service (APS) / Shared Lives is carefully orchestrated in partnership with the Adult Social Services Social Work Teams, the Individual, their families and the Adult Placement Services (APS) / Shared Lives Carer(s).
The Adult Placement Service (APS) / Shared Lives is a regulated Social Care Service for adults. Therefore, the provider will be registered with the Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) as an Adult Placement Service, under the:
• Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016
• Regulated Services (Registration) (Wales) Regulations 2017
• Adult Placement Services (Service Providers and Responsible Individuals) (Wales) Regulations 2019
Cardiff Council expects the provider to be registered as a member of Shared Lives Plus.
The provider will be responsible for:
• The Co-ordinating and Implementing the Service
• The recruitment of the Shared Lives Carers
• Assessment processes of new or potential Shared Lives Carer(s)
• Carful matching and compatibility assessments between the individuals and the Shared Lives...