Children outreach worker jobs in manchester
We are currently looking for a Senior Service Manager to oversee safe houses based in Liverpool, Manchester and Halton areas. This role is a chance to combine your leadership skills, compliance excellence and compassion.
In the role you will:
- Lead and Inspire: Manage and motivate a dedicated team, ensuring they receive high quality supervision, training, and support.
- Champion Safety & Quality: Take ownership of Health & Safety compliance, safeguarding standards, and quality assurance measures including CQC and internal audits.
- Drive Operational Excellence: Oversee budgets, payroll, and service delivery with a focus on efficiency and high standards.
- Empower Survivors: Ensure service users receive the care and advocacy they need to rebuild their lives.
What we are looking for:
- Proven experience in team management and compliance within a care or support setting.
- Strong knowledge of Health & Safety, safeguarding, and quality frameworks.
- Excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills.
- Experience in modern slavery support is desirable, but not essential as training will be provided.
About Us
Medaille Trust is one of the leading providers of support to survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK. We are working to provide refuge and freedom for survivors and fighting to see slavery in all its forms become a thing of the past. The need for this work has never been higher, there are more than 50 million estimated victims of modern slavery worldwide, and over 120,000 potential victims in the UK.
We operate ten safe houses and five outreach hubs, staffed round the clock by specialist staff, working with more than 600 men, women and dependent children each year. We work to raise awareness in the UK and to provide preventive work in source countries. Our Pursue work helps survivors to engage with police and within the legal system to seek justice and to secure convictions against their perpetrators.
Closing Date: Monday, 29 December 2025 at 10:00 A.M.
Interview Date: TBC
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and we reserve the right to interview/ appoint before the closing date. Early applications are therefore strongly encouraged.
This role is a subject to satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service checks.
The ability to drive with a valid licence with use of own vehicle insured for business purposes is essential.
Registered Charity
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Medaille Trust's mission is to provide refuge & freedom from modern slavery. One of UK's leading providers of support for survivors of modern slavery.
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ReachOut is a national youth development charity and a strategic partner for schools. Through collective mentoring and engaging activities, we build socio-emotional skills that transform outcomes for young people constrained by circumstance.
Our Youth Development Leads are the heart of our programme delivery and facilitate high quality & impactful sessions for our young people. Reporting to the Programmes & Impact Manager, you’ll work with autonomy to manage your school partners, develop your team of volunteer mentors and collaborate across our ambitious delivery team with a focus on evidence based continuous improvement.
We are recruiting for two Youth Development Lead positions across Manchester and London
Contract: Permanent with a probationary period of 6 months
Salary: £25,000 – £27,500 pro rata
Location, Hours and Annual Leave:
London
- We’re recruiting for one full time position in London
- Hybrid working with in-school project delivery around region on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
- 37.5 hours a week with a mixed working pattern. School term time approximately 3 days 9:00-17:30 and 2 days 11:00-19:30, and School holidays 9:00-17:30
- 29 days per year annual leave – maximum of 5 days to be taken in school term time
Manchester
- We’re recruiting for one part time (0.8 FTE) position in Manchester
- Hybrid working with in-school project delivery around region on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
- 30 hours a week Tuesday – Friday with a mixed working pattern. School term time approximately 2 days 9:00-17:30 and 2 days 11:00-19:30, and School holidays 9:00-17:30
- 23 days per year annual leave – maximum of 4 days to be taken in school term time
Application deadline:
- Manchester Applicants: 9am Monday 1st December
- London Applicants: 9am Friday 5th December
For the full job description, person specification and background information, please download our information pack.
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Emotional and Mental Health Wellbeing Worker – Cheshire East
Location: Cheshire East
Salary: £27,000 - £29,500 Pro Rata
Hours: 25 hours (over 4 days)
Job Type: Part time
Contract Type: Permanent
Join Pure Insight and make a real difference to young care leavers’ lives.
At Pure Insight, we’re passionate about supporting young people leaving children’s homes and foster care (care leavers) aged 16–28. We help them develop the skills, connections, and sense of belonging they need to thrive as independent adults.
As we continue to grow across Greater Manchester and Cheshire, we are excited to recruit a part-time Emotional and Mental Health Wellbeing Worker to support our Cheshire East team.
About the Role
In this role, you will:
- Support young people aged 18–25 to understand and manage the emotional and mental health impacts of trauma.
- Deliver one-to-one and group interventions focusing on emotional safety, self-regulation, and resilience building.
- Develop individual emotional wellbeing plans and provide practical support to access health services.
- Provide trauma-informed training to upskill staff and volunteers within Pure Insight and wider social care services.
- Advocate for young people, liaising with other professionals and agencies to meet their mental health needs.
- Manage referrals into our Fast Track Trauma Counselling service.
- Create social spaces, including blog and social media contributions, to promote peer connection and mental health awareness.
- Safeguard and protect the wellbeing of the young people you support, following Pure Insight’s safeguarding policies.
What We’re Looking For
We are seeking someone who:
- Is experienced in working with young people affected by trauma or adverse childhood experiences.
- Has a trauma-informed approach to care and support.
- Can confidently deliver emotional wellbeing support both one-to-one and in groups.
- Can build trusting relationships with young people and professionals.
- Is organised and able to manage their own caseload.
- Understands the challenges facing young people in or leaving care.
- Is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable young people.
What We Offer
- A friendly, supportive and fun working environment
- Flexible working options
- Extensive learning and professional development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous annual leave entitlement:
- 24 days plus bank holidays (pro rata)
- Increases to 26 days after 2 years, and 27 days after 5 years
- Additional day off for your birthday
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