Overview
Position: Female Senior Specialist Support Worker
Job Reference: 25/56
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time)
Full time shifts are worked in blocks of 4 on 4 off, 2 days 8am-8pm followed by 2 waking nights 8pm-8am. Shifts include weekends, and bank holidays.
Based in: Salford, Greater Manchester.
Salary & Benefits
Salary: £27,789.07 p.a.
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays, employer’s contributory pension scheme, Employee Assistance Program, blue light scheme, and other generous benefits.
Organisation
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.
Role purpose
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated person, with life experience who aligns to Imagine’s Values, to join Imagine’s Specialist Service portfolio. Our service in Greater Manchester 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.
Responsibilities
* Work in partnership with the Service Managers, using both the Hope and Recovery Model and Cognitive Analytic Therapy models of care and support.
* Provide leadership, coaching, supervision and support to less experienced team members.
Qualifications & experience
NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care would be an advantage. Experience with working with women in a supported housing or community health setting is desirable. A willingness to engage with the extensive training program provided is required.
Candidate profile
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.
Opportunities & values
In return Imagine offer 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 centred 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.
Equality & eligibility
These posts are open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational qualification under the Equality Act 2010.
Application process
For further details and to download job description, please visit our website: https://www.imagineindependence.org.uk/work-with-us/current-vacancies/
We are currently accepting CVs. CVs are to be returned by no later than the closing date/time either by email to recruitment@imagineindependence.org.uk or post to the Hope Street address below.
An enhanced DBS will be required for this post.
Closing date for applications: 13th October 2025 (Monday)
Interviews held on: 23rd October 2025 (Thursday)
Equal opportunities
Imagine aims to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.
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