Relief Female Specialist Support Worker

Hours: Relief hours

Salary: £12.21 per hour plus holiday pay

Based in: Crosby, Liverpool

Shift pattern: 12-hour day shift 8am-8pm, 12-hour waking night shift 8pm-8am. Shifts include weekends and bank holidays.

Benefits: EAP scheme, Blue light scheme, comprehensive training package.

Imagine Independence is a leading third sector organisation, passionate about supporting people with mental illness, neurodiversity, learning disabilities, and behaviours that challenge to live as part of their community. Imagine exists to challenge the stigma that having a mental illness or learning disability still brings. Imagine supports people to live meaningfully by nurturing their individuality and recognising the power of small steps.

Our service in Waterloo is a specialist gender-specific supported living setting for women with complex needs, who may have a diagnosis of Personality Disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizo-affective Disorder who have experienced severe trauma, and have a prevalence for Self-Harm. The service is a psychologically, trauma-informed, therapeutically driven environment offering a high level of relational security allowing women to progress, at their own pace towards sustained recovery.

Our service is passionate about working with each woman to live in the community, improve independence, set and achieve personal goals, feel safe and live the lives that they want to live.

The ideal candidate will have experience of supporting women from forensic or mental health services, as part of a team, who have been discharged from secure services. You will work in partnership with the Service Managers, using both the Hope and Recovery Model and Cognitive Analytic Therapy models of care and support. A willingness to engage with the extensive training program provided is required.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a positive mind-set to recovery and inclusion who is looking for an opportunity to be part of a team committed to outstanding person-centred delivery. In return, Imagine offers development opportunities, exposure to well-coordinated multi-disciplinary team working, and the opportunity to work in a well-resourced, well-respected supportive team environment.

Imagine is a values-based recruiter and so it will be seeking to ensure that the successful candidate will align with the following:

• Meaningful Living: Using empathy to bring together diverse people and resources, to put the everyday within reach of everyone.
• Nurturing Individuality: Creating conditions that support people to be true to themselves and express their truth.
• Focused Dedication: Showing up each day hungry to do our best to learn and develop. We never give up on people.
• Challenging Ideas: Keeping our efforts real and centered on what matters most, we do not settle for the ordinary when better is possible.
• Generous Sharing: Giving of ourselves, our experiences and knowledge, to promote and provide a great service.

For further information you can contact the service managers Stephanie Pryce and Sharon Keogh on 0151 725 5489.

To download the application form, full job description and person specification, please visit our website: Imagine Independence website page for work with us. Completed application forms are to be returned either by email to recruitment at Imagine Independence or post to 25 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BQ.

An enhanced DBS will be required for this post. Closing date for applications: Tuesday 10th March 2026 at 9:00am. Interviews will be held: Friday 20th March 2026.

Under the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1: general occupational requirements) we only require Female candidates at the present time.