Stockdales are a learning disability charity based in Sale. Established for more than 70yrs, we specialise in residential care and provide care in the community for adults and children with learning and physical disabilities. Our aim is to fulfil the lives of our residents and service users. Do you have passion and drive? Come and join the Stockdales family!
Job Benefits:
Enhanced pay for Bank Holiday working & night shifts Comprehensive induction and refresher training Mileage paid for travel during work hours. For contracted staff:
- 28 days holiday per year pro rata inclusive of bank holidays
- Increased holiday entitlement with service
- Pension Scheme
- Medicash – includes access to 24hr GP, money off shopping and going out, wellbeing aids. • Life Insurance Scheme (after 6-month probation)
- Excellent internal and external training offered.
- Monthly staff prize draw
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to Wage Stream Essential Criteria
- Basic IT skills – Microsoft Word & Email
- Good demonstration of English reading and writing skills
- Commitment to all training relevant to the role including having or working towards a level 2 or 3 RQF/NVQ • Flexibility in covering shifts
- Be able to communicate effectively
Job Requirements
- To work as part of a care and support team in Residential Services or Community Services.
- To provide person centred support for individuals who have a range of physical and learning disabilities including people with profound, multiple learning disabilities and complex health needs.
- Working in partnership with the staff team, internal and external stakeholders, professionals, and the local community to achieve best practice in line with Stockdales’ Mission statement. T
- he duties of a care practitioner will be directed by the Management Team, these can change dependant on the needs of the service and service users at any one time.
- The care practitioner role involves pushing wheelchairs and using hoists so post holders must be physically capable to complete these tasks.
- The post holder will be provided with on-going professional development training and receive guidance and support from experienced managers.
- You must be committed to your own personal development and training needs.
Key Duties
- Complete health care tasks to a high standard.
- Be able to communicate effectively with people.
- Provide support to the team and to staff who are in their probation period.
- Provide dignified, person-centred care to service users in accordance with their assessed need. This includes facilitating personal care, supporting individuals with all identified self-help skills, helping people who are showing signs of distressed behaviour, following support plans, showing empathy, and contributing to multidisciplinary meetings.
- Promote fair access to health services by supporting service users to health appointments where appropriate. Be committed to the core training certificate, and an individual professional workbook.
- Carrying out all health care procedures in line the persons support plan.
- Assume shift leader responsibilities when directed and fulfil these responsibilities fully in line with the competency assessment framework.
- When delegated to be Shift Leader the responsibilities will include - delegating duties to the team on shift, medication ordering, stores orders, liaising with families and professionals, relaying messages accurately to seniors, escalating any safeguarding concerns reported to them following the organisational protocol & procedure.
- Actively engage in training and demonstrate a high level of commitment to personal and service development to enable Stockdales to maintain a competent, confident, and skillful workforce.
- Undertake core and professional training as stipulated by the organisation.
- Attend team meetings and supervisions and make a positive contribution to team and service development. Maximise service user outcomes and enhance their experiences by promoting new opportunities and achievements promoting community integration. This includes supporting service users on their holidays in the UK or abroad and/or working in service user homes providing home care packages of support.
- Demonstrate a good sound value base always promoting dignity and respect in line with policy and procedures. Ensure the health and safety of service users, staff and other people in the services is a priority. Follow and contribute to the risk assessment process for every task and activity undertaken by staff or service users. Monitor and maintain a high level of recording and report writing from all team members. Ensure that records are completed to a consistently high standard and that all incidents are properly and accurately recorded and reported.
- Maintain accurate and up to date records of the work undertaken with service users using both written and electronic media, always maintaining confidentiality.
- Prepare professional reports and attend meetings where necessary with service users, relatives, Service Managers, and all other identified workers.
- Contribute to assessments of need, formulation of plans and reviews. This involves working in partnership with other agencies and considering the wishes and feelings of the service users, their families and other relevant persons, in line with current legislation.
- Develop and maintain an awareness of safeguarding issues, the assessment process, and the management/recording of risks. Report concerns in line with the safeguarding policy.
- Demonstrate effective time management and be able to work without direct supervision including lone working as appropriate.
- You will be required to be occasionally involved in the residential out of hours emergency call out service. You will receive an additional payment for the nights you are on rota for the emergency call out service, and if you are called out Stockdales will pay for your transport costs.
- Ensure you are knowledgeable about Stockdales’ Policies and Procedures and undertake any task deemed appropriate to the post and the remit of the service.
- Comply with the standards of conduct and practice established by regulatory bodies including CQC and Ofsted and ensure that you always adhere to them.
This job description is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive; it is issued as a framework to outline the main areas of responsibility and is open to change and review at any time. The nature of Stockdales’ work is varied and at times unpredictable. All staff are required to work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service Users and any demands on the service, this may result in additional tasks being undertaken that have not been covered in the job description. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS check and references as well as completion of an acceptable probationary period of 6 months and completion of all required training. Stockdales is committed to being an equal opportunities employer, with a values-based recruitment process.
Key information
- Employer: Stockdales
- Locations: Trafford
- Role Type: Permanent
- Salary: Salary Scale: £23,588 to £24,414- After 6m probation is passed and all induction training has been completed.Progression is available within the company.
- Working Hours: Full-Time
- Working Hours Per Week: 37.5
To apply for this role:
Please send an up- to- date CV to recruitment@stockdales.org.uk
Or call the recruitment team on 0161 973 2296- option 5
Mobile - 07801577353
Website www.stockdales.org.uk
Care experience is essential for the role-Minimum 1year
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We’re looking for an experienced and motivated Construction Training Manager to lead and deliver our Industries Workshop at HMP Forest Bank.
In this role, you will oversee accredited multi-skills and health & safety programmes that equip serving prisoners with the qualifications, confidence, and ambition to secure work in construction and build a new future on release.
Leading by example, you will support and inspire a small team of tutors, ensuring they meet your high standards of teaching and learning.
Working closely with prison staff, probation, employers, and commissioners, outside of teaching you will create meaningful opportunities that connect training to real jobs.
Alongside programme delivery, you will manage budgets and resources, support continuous improvement, and champion Groundwork’s values within the team.
This is a unique opportunity to transform training into second chances, making a lasting difference inside and beyond the prison walls.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:
This role will suit someone who has solid experience of delivering and assessing accredited construction multi-skills and health & safety training, alongside the ability to design engaging teaching materials and manage a curriculum area with confidence.
You’ll be a hands-on manager and the kind of person who can lead by example, delivering inspiring workshops which motivate and support learners, keeping standards high in a complex environment. Experience of working with people in the justice system, or those facing barriers to learning and employment, will help you adapt your approach and inspire progress in others.
We’re looking for a confident communicator and natural leader who can build trust and strong relationships with learners, staff, and external partners alike. Strong project and people management skills will enable you to juggle priorities, maintain quality, and keep delivery on track.
To thrive in this role, you’ll need recognised teaching, assessing, and construction trade qualifications, along with a positive mindset, resilience, and the ability to use data and insights to inform decisions. Above all, you’ll share our commitment to high-quality services, integrity, and creating lasting impact for individuals preparing for life after prison.
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. As a Gold Award Employer Recognition Scheme holder with the Armed Forces Covenant, we also offer a guaranteed interview to veterans who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.
Construction Training Manager based within established Industries Workshop at HMP Forest Bank, you will be responsible managing, delivering, developing and continuously improving a programme of L1/ L2 accredited construction multi skills and health and safety training for serving prisoners.
Overview of the Post
Responsible for:
· Ensuring excellent operational delivery within programmes focused on participant experience, achievement and progression outcomes
· Ensuring high quality and standardised service delivery by tutors in line with awarding body requirements
· Ensuring effective relationships with prison staff e.g. officers and management
· Meeting commissioner, partner, employer and stakeholder requirements
· Driving culture and values within delivery team
· Effective financial management and forward financial planning for programme area
Delivery
· Leads and effectively manages all aspects of accredited construction training programmes within prison workshop environment, including developing curriculum and teaching materials and resources
· Ensure delivery of a high-quality service that delivers positive achievements and outcomes for service users, including a focus on ensuring service users have the right skills, attitude and ambition to secure employment in construction following release from custody; achieves contractual KPIs and requirements of externally audited standards including City & Guilds and Ofsted
· Some direct delivery and assessment of accredited construction multi trades training to ensure continuity of provision
Business & Service Development
· Manages and develops excellent relationships with Sodexo staff, Probation and other agencies working within the prison environment
· Manages & grows delivery partnerships and relationships, including with employers and commissioners
· Leads and supervises implementation of quality improvement and development plans for curriculum area with focus on high standards of teaching, learning and assessment for all personnel in the workshop
· Champions our listening and learning culture and uses data to inform service development within employment, skills and justice programmes
Financial & Resource Management
· Responsible for prison workshop budget and plans for effective use of resources within prison workshop
· Supports financial planning and develops and delivers financial sustainability plans for construction training programme
· Identifies external funding opportunities to support development of new opportunities or innovation and makes recommendations on these
· Secures new income for programme area through mixture of supply chain negotiations and submission of new bids and tenders
People Management & Development
· Drives culture and values within team, including focus on managing co-located team and ensuring effective integration with wider Groundwork team
· Supports delivery of strategic workforce development plans
· Uses feedback (trends, insight etc) to influence policy and action
· Responsible for team performance – including well-being, development & performance -in line with contractual requirements and externally evaluated systems Ofsted / Education Inspection Framework
· Is responsible for most effective use of people within workshop – both Groundwork and Sodexo.
Internal Management
· Embeds policies and procedures across programme area
· Leads development & delivery of business improvement priority plans (as identified within our strategy)
· Collates, analyses and learns from data to improve internal and external service delivery
· Champions the use of data to drive improvements to delivery, including data related to people (HR), service delivery and development (impact) and processes (business performance)
· Remains on top of market and emerging trends/latest insights for construction, education and justice sector and uses these to inform service development plans
To apply for this role please download the documents from our website and return them to gmrecruitment@groundwork.org.uk
Key information
- Employer: Groundwork Greater Manchester
- Locations: Greater Manchester
- Role Type: Permanent
- Working Hours: Full-Time
- Working Hours Per Week: 36.66
Driving a minibus of our members living with Dementia to friendship and Activity groups across Manchester. The role involves picking up members from their homes and dropping them back afterwards. A high level of communication skills and care is involved as well as possessing excellent driving skills, awareness of health & safety and a clear driving licence.
We are looking for someone with experience of driving a minibus and a must have the D1 classification on their driving licence.
This role would suit and ex carer or someone who has possibly worked in the community and who truly loves people and engaging with people from diverse backgrounds. This role may appeal to a semi retired person, this role is part time role we are looking to recruit a casual member of staff to cover our existing drivers holidays that could mean 1- 2 shifts per week. Shifts are typically 3.5 hours from 9 - 4pm on a variety of days between Monday - Friday. Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check
Key information
- Employer: Together Dementia Support
- Locations: Greater Manchester
- Role Type: Fixed term
- Salary: Each shift is £45 for a 3.5 hour return journey, there is an additional £12.50 offered for journeys over 3.5 hours.
- Working Hours: Part-Time
To apply for this role:
Email a CV and cover letter to admin@togetherdementiasupport.org