Family and Carer Support Worker | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 November 2025 |
| Location: | Leigh, WN7 4JY |
| Company: | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7480472/437-7480472 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Mental Health worker to join the Wigan Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Team, the team offers support to people aged from 14 - 65 years who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis. The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary, supporting families of service users under the care of the team.
The role focuses on offering specialist support to carers, family members and supporters of service users referred to the EIP service by facilitating access to carers support and education, and evidence-based family interventions.
The post holder will be involved in delivering Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT) interventions and structured support to carers, promoting recovery, resilience, and engagement with services.
The role will also include the identification of carers coming into the Early Intervention Team and ensuring they feel recognised, supported and valued. This will be achieved by providing information and advice around access to services both within and external to the organisation, including signposting for carers assessments, facilitating group and 1:1 carer and service users support offers and ensuring their overall health and well-being needs are acknowledged.
• Signposting carers to the carers centre to support access to Carers Assessments.
• Supporting Carers to achieve their goals and access their communities.
• Providing support to the MDT in the support of carers to improve their experience of our services.
• Supporting the offer of BFT within the team.
• Providing group and 1:1 support to carers, family and supporters of individuals under the service.
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification
Staff benefits
• Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
This advert closes on Thursday 23 Oct 2025