Working for Leading Lives
By working at Leading Lives, you can grow yourself to grow others, including the people we support. By growing relationships, you can help us think ahead, adapt and be flexible to help us cement our sense of community across our services.
Leading Lives offers 5 different service lines, meaning there is a role for you that will suit your strengths.
We practice values-based recruitment, so we look for team members whose values match ours. This means we don’t judge you just on your skills and experience, but on who you are and the other abilities you offer.
Our primary purpose always remains the same – to support people to lead the lives they choose.
Explore the roles on offer in our different service lines, or scroll down to see what is available in your area and get a better idea of exactly what a life at Leading Lives could mean for you, starting with a welcome Bonus of between £250 and £1000! (Conditions apply).
Know you want to apply already?
If you already know you want to work with Leading Lives, hit the ‘quick apply’ button!
We’re a Disability Confident Committed employer
We are happy to make reasonable adjustments whenever possible. Please do let us know if you need any support/ adjustments with your application and the process.
The process can be found here…
Find a Role Suited to You
We offer many different types of support work as well as having opportunities in administration roles. See more about the types of support work by clicking or tapping the boxes below then use the search bar below to filter our vacancies to the roles you prefer.
Short Term Support
Supporting people make changes and access local resources
Bespoke Support
Visiting people at home and supporting them there and out in the community.
At Home Support
Providing round-the-clock support for daily dignity and living life well.
Short Break Support
Providing respite for families /carers and supported holidays for guests
Hub Support
Building skills and abilities, with fun activities at our community hubs.
Looking For Something Local?
We have vacancies across the county, use the search bar below to see the positions that are available in your area.
Benefits offered by Leading Lives
We pay the Real Living Wage
We value all our team members, so our starting pay rate is the Real Living Wage (currently £12 per hour)
Holiday entitlement that works for you
Our holiday package increases with service, and you have the opportunity to purchase additional hours
Peace of mind should you fall ill
We offer occupational sick pay as well as statutory sick pay. We also have an Employee Assistance Programme
We pay generous sleep-in rates
Sleep-in shifts are available for some of our support worker or team leader roles. The pay rate for these are £65 per shift
Award winning, in-house training
Our award-winning, bespoke, in-house training, will ensure you are confident and effective in your role
Travel benefits for you & the planet
We provide a generous mileage rate of 45p per mile, and a cycle purchase scheme to help you go green!
Owned and run by our employees
We’re employee-owned & not-for-profit. Surpluses are re-invested into our community.
We offer a welcome aboard bonus
You could qualify for a welcome aboard bonus worth of £250-£1000 (conditions apply)
Hear more from Zoe (who features in our video above) in this interview with Youth Pledge for Employers
Are your Values Aligned to Ours?
As an employee owned and run organisation, our relationships have kept us going from strength to strength over our first 10 years and through the pandemic.
We have an award winning training programme and we are always prepared to think differently to get the best for our customers.
Many organisations talk about their values but we live ours!
Listen to what Anna, an experienced support worker had to say after joining us…
Interested in an Apprenticeship or Volunteering?
Would you like to work and gain valuable experience whilst studying?
Apprenticeships are a great way to gain hands-on experience while studying towards an industry-recognised qualification and earning a wage.
Or are you looking for volunteering opportunities? There are lot’s of benefits to volunteering including getting the chance to improve your confidence and self-esteem whilst gaining new skills, knowledge and experience.
To learn more about apprenticeships or volunteering with Leading Lives, click here!
