Home Support Worker NEW Stockport Council Posted yesterday Stockport £26,403 - £28,412 Expires [...]

Home Support Worker – Reablement
Scale 4 (£26,403 – £28,412 pro rata, actual salary £24,975 – £26,620) +2 increments for weekend working
Full and Part time hours available. Working on an early and late shift pattern between
7am 10pm over 7 days (including Bank Holidays)
Permanent
Community-based roles in Stockport

Application Deadline: 25 August 2025, 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 26 August 2025
Interview Date: 1 September 2025
Interview Type: Face to face

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Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025

We have an exciting opportunity to join our award winning palliative team and Community Home Support Team (REaCH).

Are you ale to do the following? If you’ve answered yes then this might be your chance to make a difference.

• Can communicate effectively with people and carers, recognising their needs for alternative methods of communication?
• Do you have the skills and ability to support service users with a life limiting illness in a professional and empathetic manner.
• To promote the physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing to individuals and carers?
• Do you have a desire to support and help people in the community with a range of support we offer across the service?
• Do you have a full UK driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle insured for work purposes?

Are you looking to start your career in care? You could be looking for a new role which is fulfilling and a fresh start. If any of these sound like you, we would like to hear from you.

If you know someone who would be well suited to this role, please fill in our Home Support Worker Refer a Friend online form. We are offering all successful referrers £200 if you signpost an amazing person to the vacancy. You must be a Stockport Council employee. You will receive £100 when the applicant starts in post and a further £100 after they’ve been in the post for three months.

Your Role

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 REACH Support Worker is 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. Support service users with life limiting conditions will be your primary role whilst still supporting a reablement service if called upon, and promote wellbeing. The reablement 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.

About You

We would like candidates to have some experience of knowledge within palliative care or supporting an individual with a life limiting condition(s). If you want to help people, the role of enhanced support worker/reablement support worker could be for you.

You don’t need any qualifications or previous work experience to apply for this role, as full training is provided for the right candidates. What’s important are your values and your attitude towards working with people who need care and support as well as commitment to want to work in social care.

Please note you will need to be able to commit to full time (35 hours) in the first month due to training and induction schedules.

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
• Support carers, family and friends during a difficult time
• Supporting service users in the last weeks of life
• 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

Applicants to this role must have a valid UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.

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About Us

REaCH and Stockport Council’s Adult Social Care service is committed to developing and retaining its workforce.

Benefits of applying for this role include but are not limited to

• A permanent contract with a Choice of shift patterns to suit you
• Comprehensive induction, training and mentoring programme
• Blue light eligibility
• Assistance to gain your Care Certificate and your Level 2 or 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care
• Uniform, tablet, and mobile phone provided
• Very competitive rates of pay, including enhancements for flexible working
• Generous mileage rates (up to £963 per annum)
• 25 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays (pro rata) rising to 30 days after five years
• Opportunity to purchase an extra 10 days annual leave
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Professional career development
• Excellent management support and appraisal.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme providing 24/7 support, advice and counselling for employees and their immediate family

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.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

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Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.

We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.

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A generous annual leave allowance, up to 30 days annual leave dependent on grade and length of service, plus bank holidays with the option to purchase additional annual leave

Work Life Balance

Work and personal life balance. Many jobs include part time working, flexi-time and homeworking

Employee engagement networks to support colleagues and create opportunities to feed into both workforce and borough strategies

Support for volunteering by allowing up to 4 hours per month (pro rata) to carry out any duties associated with this

Learning and Development

A suite of learning and development opportunities, from important data protection training to all level apprenticeships

Discounts

A huge range of discounts via an easy to use portal, including: Gym memberships, restaurants, events, travel, cycle to work scheme, home electronics and more.

Access to an employee support hotline, available 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.

Pension Scheme

Option to join the Local Government Pension Scheme and give your pension a boost by enrolling into a salary sacrifice scheme.

Our Recruitment Journey

Seen a job you’re interested in but want to understand more about our recruitment process?

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Application stage

When you have seen a job, you are interested in you can submit your application online by clicking ‘Apply Now’, some vacancies will ask you to complete a supporting statement where you should address the About You section of the Job Profile for the role. Other vacancies will ask you to upload a CV.

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Shortlisting

In keeping with our commitment to inclusion, recruiting managers take an anonymised approach to recruiting when shortlisting your application form. They will use the supporting information section of your application and your work history to assess your suitability for the job. You\’ll be notified of the outcome of your application form via email and if successful you\’ll be invited to book an interview slot.

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Interviews

When preparing for the interview, you should familiarise yourself with the job profile. The About You section of the job profile contains the criteria that will be assessed at interview stage. You can prepare for interview by ensuring that you have clear examples relating to how you have met these criteria. If you require any reasonable adjustments because of a disability under the Equality Act, to assist you during the selection process we would be pleased to discuss them with you on [emailprotected]

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Offer stage and pre-employment checks

Offer stage and pre-employment checks If you\’re offered the job after interviewing, you\’ll be sent a conditional offer detailing your new role. Along with the conditional contract and offer letter, our team will be in touch regarding your pre-employment checks.

The pre-employment checks that you will need to undertake will depend on the role that you\’ve applied for. These checks may include:
• right to work in the UK
• Disclosure and Barring Service checks.

The information provided will be dealt with in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice
• gaps in employment
• reference checks. We will request references prior to issuing your conditional contract
• pre-employment health declaration
• qualification checks

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