Job Description

Intensive Support Worker, Leaving Care Team

Scale 5 + 2 increments for weekend working (28,624 - 31,067)

This role is eligible for an Essential Car User allowance of up to 963 per annum.

37 Hours, Full Time

Temporary, until March 2026

Central House, Leaving Care Hub with Hybrid / Work from Home option service needs led

Application Deadline: 11:59pm 31st July 2025

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: 4th August 2025

Interview Date: 14th August 2025

Interview Type: Face to Face interview and Young People's Panel

While we embrace the use of AI as an innovative tool to maximise our services at Stockport Council, we are looking for authenticity in applications we receive. We therefore ask you to think carefully if choosing to use AI when completing your application and ask that you ensure you read all instructions carefully and that your application is written by you and reflects your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm.

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

Your Role

You will provide tailored, empowering support to young people aged 1625 who are currently or have previously been in the care of the Local Authority, helping them navigate their transition into adulthood with confidence and stability. As part of this role, you will also contribute to the delivery of group-based activities and workshops, and actively support the Care Leavers Forumensuring young people's voices are heard, valued, and central to shaping the services they receive.

About You

You will bring the skills and sensitivity needed to build trusting, creative, and empowering relationships with young people aged 1625, supporting them through a safe and confident transition into adulthood. You will have experience working alongside young people with complex needs, offering consistent, compassionate support including accompanying them to appointments to help them access the care they need.


Your experience working with care-experienced young people will give you insight into the challenges they may face, and you will be committed to amplifying their voices both individually and in group settings ensuring their lived experiences shape the services and support they receive.

About Us

You will work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team including Personal Advisers (PAs), Intensive Support Workers (ISWs), Progression Coaches, and Education, Employment and Training (EET) Workers to provide wraparound, relationship-based support to some of our most vulnerable young people. These young people are often transitioning from residential or semi-independent living and may have experienced significant instability.


This role is part of an exciting and evolving service model. Together, the team will ensure young people receive holistic, timely, and trauma-informed care that supports their emotional wellbeing, independence, and long-term success.


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.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Lizzi Dodd on Elizabeth.dodd@stockport.gov.uk or 07891949059 for an informal discussion about the role.

This post is also open as a secondment opportunity for Stockport Council Employees, however, you must seek the permission of your current manager prior to making an application.


The successful applicant's appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.


Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

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.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme


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