MioCare’s #FutureFocus strategy for 2024-27 brings together our mission, values and goals.
Our mission: Supporting people to get the most out of life
Our values: Inclusive, Dedicated, Collaborative, Aspirational
You can read more about our goals, here, but we wanted to briefly highlight the first of those…
Our first goal: People we support at the heart of everything
Recently, we advertised for a new Senior Care Coordinator in our Shared Lives Oldham team. Our colleague Karen (who currently carries out that role) is retiring soon after an amazing 41 years working in MioCare’s and Oldham Council’s social care services. We’ll miss her, and it’s important that we get another fantastic person to fill her shoes!
In order to find that person, it’s crucial that we include people we support in the recruitment process, and we had the perfect candidate for this…
Welcome to the interview panel, Hamza!
Hamza is currently in a long-term Shared Lives arrangement with Shared Lives Carer, Eddie. If you keep an eye on our website or social media, you’ll have seen photos of them enjoying life here in their hometown…
Karen explained the recruitment process to Hamza who was eager to learn. With some support, he wrote his own questions for the interviewees he would meet over the course of two days, and even had a practice run at asking those questions with Jannine, another member of the Shared Lives Oldham team.
He was a key person on the panel which also consisted of the scheme’s Registered Manager, Katie, and one of MioCare’s Service Director’s, Diane.
Katie said the following…
"Hamza introduced himself to the candidates, and completely unprompted said...
“Good morning, I’m Hamza and I’m part of the Shared Lives family!"
A confident start. Katie continued…
"To me it showed that we’re getting things right, and that Hamza really does feel involved in the scheme and how it operates. We want to continue to do better though, and make sure that the people we support at MioCare are fully involved in the decision-making and design of services. Hamza gave us a different viewpoint, and as someone in a long-term Shared Lives arrangement it was brilliant to have his insight."
Finally, we talked to Hamza to ask how he’d found the experience…
"Shared Lives has supported me for about nine years, and I felt proud and happy to help! It was my first time interviewing someone. It was fantastic, and I would definitely do it all again."
Well done and thank you, Hamza!
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