Supported living in Greater Manchester for young adults aged 18 to 25.
We support young people leaving children’s services, stepping down from hospital, or coming back from out-of-
area placements: autism, learning disability, ADHD, mental health needs and dual diagnosis. Own tenancy, own
front door, and a support team that stays.
Four routes into our service.
Leaving children's services
The move at 18 is where most placements break. We work alongside children’s services from the transition assessment onwards, so the young person meets our team months before they move, not the week before.
- Care leavers under Children (Leaving Care) Act arrangements
- EHCP continuing to 25
- Children’s residential or foster placements ending at 18
Stepping down from hospital
We take referrals directly from ward teams and work to the discharge date rather than around it.
- CAMHS to adult mental health transitions
- Tier 4 and adult inpatient step-down
- s117 aftercare packages
Coming back from out of area
Bringing someone home from a placement 200 miles away is the whole point of the service.
- Building the Right Support and Dynamic Support Register cases
- Care (Education) and Treatment Review outcomes
- Repatriation from out-of-area residential and ATU placements
When things break down at home
- Family or placement breakdown
- Young people at risk of homelessness or sofa surfing
- Urgent placements where a plan is needed in days, not months
We don’t hand packages back.
Placements for this age group rarely fail because the plan was wrong. They fail because the provider couldn’t staff them by week six. We came to supported living from the staffing side. The part everyone else struggles with is the part we already did for a living.
We train our own workforce. Our in-house academy delivers mandatory and statutory training to the Skills for Health Core Skills Training Framework, with same-day certification, refreshers and annual updates. Staff arrive competent, not just recruited.
Experts in International recruitment. Twelve years of international recruitment gives us a pipeline that doesn’t dry up when the local market tightens.
Registered nurses sit in our structure. Clinical oversight, competency sign-off for delegated healthcare tasks, and a service that can hold health needs rather than escalate them into an admission.
One team, no agency backfill. The people supporting someone on a Tuesday are the people supporting them on a Sunday. For a young person who has been let down repeatedly, consistency isn’t a nice-to-have. It is the intervention.
What we measure, and what we send you
Every commissioner gets the same quarterly report, whether or not they ask for one.
- 94% shifts covered by our own staff, rolling 12 months
- 11 average days from referral to move-in
- 0 placements ended early by us in the last 12 months
Also reported: progress against each person’s Preparing for Adulthood outcomes, restrictive practice incidents and their reduction over time, unplanned hospital admissions, police call-outs, safeguarding referrals and their outcomes, staff turnover by service.
Housing and care, kept separate
Every young person holds their own tenancy with Nurses Alliance Limited. Rent and housing costs sit separately from the care fee, and nobody loses their home because they change support provider. We’re a care provider that works with landlords, not a landlord that provides care.
Where we are
Our supported living operation runs from [Manchester address], not remotely from head office. Our service manager, clinical lead and recruitment team are all based in Greater Manchester.
Boroughs we cover: Manchester, Salford, Trafford, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Tameside, Stockport, Bolton, Wigan.
Send us the referral. We’ll tell you today if we can help.
Straight to the people who make the decision, no call centre, no triage queue.
Max, Service Manager · referrals@nursesallianceltd.co.uk