Leonard Cheshire is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Support Worker to join its team in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively, working flexibly and creatively with customers and their families to meet individual needs. While personal care experience is desirable, it is not essential, as full training will be provided.
This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives while developing your career with a respected charity.
About Leonard Cheshire
Leonard Cheshire is the UK’s largest disability non-profit organisation, dedicated to enriching the lives of disabled people since 1948. Inspired by its founder’s vision of care and inclusion, Leonard Cheshire now supports over 20,000 disabled people worldwide.
With a team of around 7,000 employees, the organisation provides high-quality care in people’s homes, supported living, residential services, day centres, and respite centres — empowering disabled people to live, learn, and work as independently as possible.
Position: Support Worker
Salary: £12.4 – £14.46 per hour
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Stockport, Greater Manchester
About the Role
Support Worker (15749)
Full time, 34 hours per week. You must be able to work the full time hours as advertised.
Shifts patters are: 8:00am-4:30pm, working for 4 days a week.
*A night enhancement of £1.50 per hour will apply from 8pm to 7am Monday – Sunday (this does not apply to sleep-ins). A weekend day enhancement of £2.00 per hour will be paid from 7am to 8pm, Saturday and Sunday.
Please note that this role is based in Reddish. You will be providing personal care and support to a service user in there own home.
Are you an experienced care worker or would love to start a career in care?
If so, we would love to hear from you! Apply now, helping us to continue our great work making a positive impact every day on the lives of people with a disability.
Care Assistant, Support Worker or similar experience is desirable but not essential. We offer an excellent training and induction programme for everyone!
Main Duties
As a Support Worker with Leonard Cheshire you will become part of a fantastic team. Every day is different, but here are just some of the duties you will do:
- Assistance with daily life tasks including personal care, medication and mealtimes.
- Escort and assist in and around the service, at external events and appointments.
- Supporting our Person Centred approach, encouraging maximum independence for our customers and helping to achieve individual aspirations.
- Maintain up to date and accurate records.
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively.
- Work flexibly and creatively with customers and their families.
- Ideally have personal care experience (not essential).
- Be able to work under pressure and as a team.
- Flexibility to work within rostered hours / prepared to participate in an on-call rota where required.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of employee rewards to include:
- Wagestream, option to withdraw up to 40% of your pay before pay day (click here for more details).
- Free Blue Light Card.
- Contributory company pension scheme with competitive life cover benefit.
- Access to a Cash Health Plan at very favourable rates.
- Great development opportunities through our apprenticeship schemes and chance to gain recognised qualifications.
- Unlimited payments through our Refer a Friend bonus scheme.
- Free DBS check.
- Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
We are amongst the highest rated providers of care and supported living services in the UK, with 87% of our services rated ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by regulators.
*We are currently under consultation proposing a change to the enhancement rates paid. If the proposal is accepted, from 1 December 2025 new enhancement rates of £1.00 per hour will only apply to night working (8pm Monday to 7am Friday) and weekend working (8pm Friday – 7am Monday). This does not apply to Sleep-ins.
Leonard Cheshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applications from people with a disability, supporting where possible, your requirements for reasonable adjustments.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. A satisfactory disclosure check (PVG membership in Scotland) is required for this post. References will be obtained for all roles.
Shortlisting for this role may take place as applications are received. We therefore reserve the right to close this vacancy once suitable candidates have been appointed.
No agencies please *
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives while developing your career with a respected charity. APPLY TODAY!
Application Deadline
September 11th, 2025