‘The beauty of L'Arche’ to me means everyone is welcomed to be a part of our community. We uphold what it means to be human. Employee Inclusion Survey 2024 

Care is at the centre of the human experience. It includes everything from relationship, to love, to professional support. Good care means treating the person you’re looking after as your friend.

That's why working with adults with learning disabilities should be something done with people, not to them. In L’Arche, that means sharing life together, and believing in the transformative potential of our relationships with each other. 

This way of supporting each other changes the way we work together as teams too. Watch the video below to see why people in L’Arche love working as part of a team supporting adults with learning disabilities. 

If you work with L’Arche in the UK, you’ll be joining a life-sharing movement with 11 Communities in the UK and over 150 worldwide. They are all committed to the same mission: offering care and support based on friendship, and building a more loving world by living and working together as peers and equals. 

We celebrate diversity and seek to build inclusive Communities where everyone is treated fairly, with kindness and respect, and valued for who they are. As an employer, we encourage applications from everybody irrespective of religion, faith, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, and age. Scroll down further to see what we offer our employees in L’Arche.

Work with L'Arche

As well as joining a friendly Community, where you will be well supervised and supported, and benefit from L’Arche’s mentorship programme, these are some other benefits you get by working for us:

• Joining shared meals since cooking and having a meal together is what we are all about
• Paid sick pay, up to a maximum of 7wks (depending on length of service)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption/Surrogacy, and Paternity Pay (depending on length of service, details available on request)
• Interest free loans and salary advances available
• Free eye tests and a contribution towards the cost of glasses if you need them for work
• Free DBS / PVG checks
• Free SSSC registration
• Free Blue Light Card
• Professional membership fees paid if they are directly relevant to your role
• Free Employee Assistance Programme available to everyone
• Up to 5 days paid compassionate leave
• Up to 6 days paid (pro rata) for time off for emergency dependents leave
• Carer and Childminder costs available in some circumstances to facilitate attendance at residential meetings
• Paid mileage costs at HMRC rate
• Working from Home Allowance for those in office-based roles but for whom no office is provided
• Specialist bereavement counselling for employees and their family members
• Free Life Assurance up to 4 times gross annual salary
• Access to the Bike to Work scheme

Work with L'Arche