Adult Support Worker

Adult Social Care

Changing Futures

Adult Support Worker

Ref: 001825

Contract: Fixed Term 3 years

Salary: £32,578 - £35,570 per annum (Grade 5)

Hours: 36.66 per week - hybrid working

Location: Oldham Council, Spindles Shopping Centre, George Street, Oldham, OL1 1HD

Closing Date: Thursday 12 November 2026

Interview Date: TBC.

Role Overview:

This is an exciting opportunity to join Oldham’s Changing Futures service as part of the borough’s delivery of the Enhanced Live Well offer for adults experiencing multiple disadvantage.

As a Changing Futures Support Worker, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary, traumainformed team, providing intensive, relationshipbased support to adults who experience some of the most complex challenges, including homelessness, substance misuse, mental illhealth, domestic abuse, and contact with the criminal justice system.

You will play a key role in delivering a personcentred, outreachbased approach, supporting individuals who often struggle to engage with traditional services and who may have experienced repeated exclusion from support systems.

Working within Adult Social Care’s Front Door, you will be part of an integrated pathway that includes:

• Access to communitybased Live Well offers
  
• Stepup into the MEAM Hub (permanent MDT)
  
• Allocation to a dedicated Key Worker for ongoing support
  
• Contribution to system learning and service improvement

You will take responsibility for case managing a small number of individuals with high levels of complexity, ensuring they receive coordinated, flexible and consistent support that is built around their strengths, goals and aspirations rather than service boundaries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide intensive, outreachbased support to adults experiencing multiple disadvantage, working flexibly across community settings, homes, and partner organisations
  
• Build trusting, consistent relationships with individuals who may be disengaged from services, using a traumainformed and strengthsbased approach
  
• Lead on and contribute to Team Around the Adult (TAA) meetings, ensuring coordinated multiagency support
  
• Work in partnership with the MEAM Hub MDT, contributing to shared decisionmaking, risk management and planning
  
• Develop and review personcentred support plans, focused on individual goals and meaningful outcomes
  
• Advocate on behalf of individuals to challenge barriers within systems, ensuring access to appropriate services
  
• Work closely with partners across Adult Social Care, health, housing, substance misuse, VCSE and criminal justice services
  
• Identify and escalate risk and safeguarding concerns, ensuring appropriate action is taken in line with policy
  
• Support individuals through periods of instability while maintaining engagement and continuity
  
• Contribute to the identification of system barriers, service gaps and patterns of disengagement, feeding into service development and improvement

About Us:

We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:

A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.

We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.

Our Values and Behaviours:

By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.

We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

• Work with a resident focus
• Support local leaders
• Committed to the borough
• Delivery high performance
• Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page

Our Benefits Package:

At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

• 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
• The option to purchase additional annual leave.
• An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
• Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active.
• Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
• Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
• Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
• Staff recognition and celebration events.
• Peer support groups

Inclusive Recruitment:

We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

If you’re an applicant with disabilities and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer, someone who has served in the Armed Forces, or you’ve participated in the GM Elevate Programme, and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

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Important Information:

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.

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