Autism Support Worker jobs in Greater Manchester

Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable Children and Young People? Our children’s home in Central Cheadle Hulme, Stockport provides Short Break care for Children and Young People with learning disabilities and/or autism and complex needs

The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.

You will be working in a caring home environment, nurturing, and supporting the young people we work with helping them to overcome the issues they are facing. You will work with the team and the Registered Manager to give the support that these Children and Young People deserve to help make life better for them.

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people that we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Purpose of the role is for staff to support the individual with daily living, recreation, independence, personal care, communication and community access.

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).

We have 3 full-time vacancies for Children’s Residential Social Care Worker who can complete the full range of tasks required.

Location Central Cheadle Hulme, Stockport

Hours 37.5 hours per week, on a 7-day rota with 2 non-working days each week.

Salary £26,230 annual salary (£13.45ph)

Weekends paid at time and a quarter (£16.82ph)

Sleep in rate - £100.80 per sleep

The Together Trust was ranked in the Financial Times Best Employers list 2026

We also offer….

• Annual leave – 27 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
• Generous pension scheme – a minimum company pension contribution of 4%.
• Occupational sick pay and family-friendly policies, including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform – offering discounts on high street shopping, travel and insurance.
• Generous death in service benefit – up to 6 times basic salary.
• Eligibility to apply for a Blue Light Card.
• Proud to be a real living wage employer.
• Refer a friend scheme – be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us.
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.
• Long service awards – vouchers and extra holiday.
• Promotion of wellbeing across the organisation, including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and a free weekly yoga session, in person or online.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults in your household.
• Inclusive networks for colleagues to join if they’d like to (Disability & Neurodiversity Action Group, Race Equality Network, Proud Together (LGBTQ+ group), Together for Men, Women Together).

We also provide a caring, supportive environment for all our employees, with a strong emphasis on a good work / life balance, and this something you can’t put a value on!

About the position….

• As a Children’s Residential Social Care Worker, you will work as part of a residential childcare team providing support for the children and young people with their physical, emotional, and social needs with an emphasis on promoting their personal growth and independence.
• Working on your own initiative and as part of a team, you will be to preparing and assisting the children and young people to fulfil the aims of their person-centred plan.
• You will support the children and young people with communication and work closely in a team that has a passion to improve their lives whilst in our care.
• You will work flexibly to undertake the full range of duties in a well-planned way that respects and values the children and young people as individuals.
• We provide compassionate, nurturing care for the children and young people who are in crisis and have complex needs, supporting them to move on from a difficult past to a brighter future.
• The young people use a range of communication aids including verbal, pictures, now and next cards, schedules, choice boards, sign language.
• There is an amount of admin of medication. Additional training is provided for all support requirements.

About you….

Do you have the skills we are looking for.

• Good communication and interpersonal skills. You’ll be expected to liaise with other staff, parents/carers, and professionals.
• Am ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, taking the lead when required, maintaining & encouraging open and honest communication.
• You must have a good understanding of English and IT skills and be happy to complete all the paperwork and care plans to a good quality. Which includes daily recording on IT systems (Clearcare) and other records such as incident reports.
• An enthusiastic, reliable and outgoing person with a level of maturity, skills and interests which can be utilised to engage the young people.

Is this you? Are you ready to make a positive change? Then please take a closer look at the Full Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this advert.

This service is regulated by Ofsted therefore all employees must be over the age of 22 years at the time of joining the service.

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).

This role will involve regulated activity.

We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.

We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.

In order for the Trust to comply with the apprenticeship funding rules, it is a requirement of the role that the successful applicant must be able to evidence that (1) they have the right to work in the UK without additional approval for more than 20 hours each week throughout the year and (2) they have an eligible residency status for the purposes of the apprenticeship funding rules. In most cases this will mean that the individual needs to show that they have been ''ordinarily resident'' in particular countries (including the UK) at least 3 years before the start of the apprenticeship.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.

If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way, please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.