Night Care Worker - Stockport - Together Trust Centre

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# Night Care Worker## Job Introduction
Our children's home in Gatley, provides support for 3 children with autism, physical or learning disabilities. The young people are also likely to have communication, sensory and social difficulties.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.We are looking for a
Night Care Worker who can complete the full range of tasks required.
Location –Gatley, Stockport
Hours - 40 hours per week.

Each shift is 10 hours in duration and will be worked over 4 nights of the week which is part of a 7-day rota.
Shift timings – each shift will start at 21:30 and end at 07:30 irrespective of the day of the week.
Salary - £26,346.67 per year with an hourly rate of
£12.67 per hour.

Salary is based on a full-time equivalent salary of £24,700 per year on 37.5 hours per week.
Enhanced pay for weekend shifts and during the week between 11pm and 6am – 25% uplift on the hourly rate.

(£15.83ph)
We also offer….
Annual Leave 27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years.

Based on a working pattern of 5 days per week.*
Generous pension scheme
and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basis salary death in service*
Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including
enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.

• Eligibility to apply for
  Blue Light card Proud to be a
  real living wage employer
  Refer a friend scheme, rewards for recommending a friend to work with us
• Comprehensive
  training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
  Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of
  Wellbeingacross the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
• Access to our
  Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your homeWe 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 Night 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.
• The core tasks will include attending to the needs of the children and young adults during the night some of which have complex health conditions, domestic duties and appropriate record keeping in accordance with legislation and regulation.
• There is one
  Night Care Workerper shift and another member of staff will sleep in the home and can be disturbed if there is an emergency.
• The post holder will be expected to attend staff meetings, supervision, and annual appraisals. As well as attending the Trust's training courses and those provided in-house, together with a willingness to undertake an appropriate level QCF programme, including working the occasional day shifts in order to gather the relevant evidence to support the qualification.
• This role requires Lone Working.
• Working on your own initiative and as part of a team, you will be 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.
  About you….Do you have the skills we are looking for.
• An 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.
• Competence in administering medication and simple medical procedures for the young people as appropriate, and a willingness to undertake training if required.
• Take responsibility for the security and maintenance of the house/home during the night, including housekeeping duties as required and utilising the sleep-in member of staff or on-call manager as required.
  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 may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.
  We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.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.### Night Care Worker Salary
£26,346.

67 Frequency
Annual Job Reference
togethertrust/TP/666/373 Contract Type
Permanent - Full Time Closing Date
5 March, 2026 Job Category
Night Care worker Location
Gatley, Stockport, United Kingdom Posted on** 3 February, 2026
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