Adult Support Worker

Adult Social Care

Changing Futures

Adult Support Worker

: 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, trauma informed team, providing intensive, relationship based 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 person-centred, outreach based 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 community based 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, outreach based 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 trauma informed and strengths based 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 decision making, risk management and planning
• Develop and review person-centred 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 escalation 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…