Transition Support Worker (Staying Close)

Tameside Children's Services are seeking to recruit committed Transition Support Workers to join our team as part of the Staying Close project. Staying Close is a pilot service offer to children who have left care and who have previously lived in children's homes, designed to offer them practical, employment, emotional and social help in their lives as they exit care.

The aim of the programme is to ensure that each young person is equipped with skills to be able to live a successful and positive life, once they move into their own home. The support to the young people continues until the age of 21.

We are looking for Support Workers with vision and energy to be able to build positive, genuine relationships with young people. You will have ambitious aspirations for the young people you support, ensuring that they access a variety of opportunities to further develop interests and skills.

You will have knowledge of developing independence skills such as, budgeting, cooking, shopping, DIY, paying bills, dealing with utility providers, housing providers etc. in order to be able to support the young people on the programme., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

In return, we offer a competitive salary, a minimum of 27 days leave per year, 36 hours working week, membership of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, which is a Local Government Pension Scheme and much more.