Casual Support Workers & Home Support Workers
| Posting date: | 02 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 October 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK1 3XE |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75733495 |
Summary
Casual Support Workers & Home Support Workers
Scale 4 (£14.59 per hour plus £1.76 holiday pay)
Casual - range of flexible hours including weekend work
Homes & supported tenancies across the borough
There’s no need to submit an application for this role, instead come along to our recruitment open day on 25th September at Stockroom, Merseyway, Stockport SK1 1PW, where we will be interviewing on the day. Please note that you will be required to complete a short exercise assessing your written and numeracy skills as part of the interview.
Current Right to Work is required for both roles, if interested in the Casual Home Support Worker role please ensure you bring proof of your UK Driving Licence.
Please ensure you book a ticket for one of the below timeslots if you are planning to attend:
10am 11am: book here
11am 12pm: book here
12pm 1pm: book here
1pm 2pm: book here
- Are you caring and a good communicator?
- Do you have a desire to support and help people in the community?
We have an exciting opportunity for Casual Support Workers to join our REACH and Opportunities Together Services. We have roles supporting people with learning disabilities in their own homes to live independent and meaningful lives, along with roles providing reablement as a stepping stone to independence, by supporting people to regain lost skills, learn new skills, and adapt to the challenges that living independently can present.
See below for more information about each role or click the Job Profiles at the bottom of the advert. Please note, whilst you can state a preference for one of these roles during the application process you may be required to work flexibly across the two services.
Opportunities Together Support Worker role
Can you make a positive contribution by supporting people with learning disabilities in their own homes to live independent and meaningful lives? This role involves providing physical, practical, and emotional support to people who have learning disabilities in day to day living and self-care, whilst protecting their rights as an adult.
There are a number of properties across the borough which at times may involve lone working. You will be expected to work across all the locations within the Opportunities Together service; this may involve transferring locations at short notice.
You will need experience of working with people with disabilities, this can be in either a paid, voluntary, or personal capacity and demonstrable ability to meet a wide range of Service User’s needs, including managing behaviours that can challenge, personal care tasks and administration of medication.
This is an exciting time for the Opportunities Together service, we are embedding strength- based approaches within all our practices, aiming to up skill workers with technology. Support workers are to be involved and be creative with tenants in the development of life opportunities and support plans. To be given autonomy to create opportunities and partnerships within the community.
If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Emma Crewdson, emma.crewdson@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role
REACH Home Support Worker role
Do you have a passion for care and supporting Stockport’s residents? This role involves embracing a person-centred approach to support people in their own home 365 days a year who are at risk of needing social care or an increased intensity of care to regain functioning, maintain life skills, rebuild their confidence, and promote wellbeing.
The REaCH service places person centred care at the heart of everything we do, recognising the strengths of the Stockport residents who we support. The role of a Reablement Support Worker is to the role also provides a stepping stone to independence, by supporting people to regain lost skills, learn new skills, and adapt to the challenges that living independently can present.
If you enjoy working as part of a team, but are also able to work independently, this may be the job for you! We will also offer you training and support to be able to do the following tasks:
- Provide all types of personal care to people we support and make sure they are safe, comfortable and feel they have been treated with dignity and respect whilst they achieve their goals
- Write clearly and accurately in-service users daily records
- Safely administer medication as prescribed
- Follow our policies and procedures that keep you and the people we support safe
You don’t need previous care experience for this role, but if you want to help people, the role of casual Home Support Worker could be for you.
Applicants for this role must have a valid UK Driving Licence and access to a car for work purposes.
If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Ben Wilson, ben.wilson@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role
About You
In order to excel in these roles, you will be motivated and enthusiastic about care and passionate about promoting independence. You will be reliable and punctual with the availability and flexibility to work irregular hours.
About Us
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works, and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check, at a charge to candidates of £68.50.
As part of your Disclosure and Barring Service application you will be expected to register with the Update Service which enables your employer or future employers to carry out an online Status check of your DBS certificate. This removes the requirement to have and pay for another full DBS check and is a condition of working as a casual in this role. You must sign up with the Update Service within 30 days of receiving your DBS clearance being issued. The cost for annual subscription is £13, which you will be expected to pay.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence, but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.
Due to the additional provisions set out for young workers in the 'working time regulations 1999 act', applicants must be 18 years or over to be considered for this work.
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