Employability Keyworker

**x2 Full-Time (37 hours per week)**

**Fixed Term until 31st March 2026**

**About Motiv8**:
Motiv8 is a programme that supports those furthest from the labour market. Funded by the DWP since 2023, it provides personalised support to help people with complex needs move towards employment. It is led by Jigsaw Support and delivered in partnership with Skylight, Starts with you, Wythenshawe Community Housing Group, For Housing, and Shelter.

**About the Role**:
As an Employability Keyworker, you will manage and monitor a caseload of participants, engaging them through face-to-face, telephone, and video support. Your role involves providing and coordinating tailored support packages to enhance participants' health, wellbeing, self-confidence, and self-esteem. You will help them understand their strengths and aspirations, advancing their journey towards training, job search, and employment. This includes developing and delivering one-to-one and group interventions, conducting risk and need assessments, and creating SMART action plans.

Your support will be flexible and holistic, continually reassessing participant needs. Building relationships with key partners and stakeholders is crucial, as is recording and maintaining accurate case notes using the ECCO system. You will comply with organisational policies and procedures and work flexibly across Greater Manchester.

You will involve relevant agencies within the partnership and wider community, matching them to the participant’s needs through a unique and adaptable delivery approach. You will work with individuals aged 18 and over who have multiple complex needs, such as entrenched worklessness, living in a jobless household, debt, mental health issues, homelessness, a history of offending, disabilities, and other health issues including drug and alcohol addiction.

You will offer one-to-one support for a minimum of six months, removing barriers to help participants move forward and achieve positive outcomes in training, job search, or employment. Delivery will be across the ten local authorities in Greater Manchester, predominantly in Stockport.

**About you**:
Due to the nature of the role, a valid current driving licence and access to a car is essential.

The SHG “Be You” approach sums up our belief that everyone has the right to be who they are, and to be that person at work, in line with SHG’s Values. We’re always looking to improve diversity within our teams to enhance this culture and to be truly representative of the communities we work in.

This role will be on Skylight terms and conditions.

**Closing date**:28th August 2025

**Interview date**:4th September 2025

Welcome to Stockport Homes Group (SHG), an umbrella organisation for four, socially responsible interdependent companies within the housing sector. What makes us unique is our vision: one where entrepreneurship and commercialisation go hand in hand with social impact.

We are Stockport's largest landlord, managing over 12,000 properties on behalf of Stockport Council and Private Landlords, as well as our own growing portfolio of new build homes.

As builders, landlords, architects and developers we believe in collective responsibility for more affordable housing. Equally, through a commitment to a range of wrap around services we look for ways to improve people's lives: from advice and support on health and wellbeing, to employment, educational opportunities and help in the home.

All our profit is reinvested within the group to maximise opportunities for those who most need our help.

**Companies within SHG**:
**Stockport Homes**:

- Stockport Homes was formed in 2005, to manage housing stock across Stockport on behalf of Stockport Council. As a limited company, we operate as an ALMO which is an ‘Arm’s length management organisation’, so whilst the company is owned by the Council, we operate independently on day-to-day matters and in delivering services to our customers. We are committed to providing quality homes across Stockport and listening to the voice of our customers to continually improve our services.

**Three Sixty** - Three Sixty delivers innovative, high-quality construction, maintenance and facilities management services across Stockport, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. We are trades people who operate with a friendly, community-led approach. We get the balance right between excellent customer service and service delivery. We take pride in giving back to our local communities and each year we Gift Aid our profits to SKylight to support the work they do to help Stockport and the borough thrive.

**Skylight** - SKylight is a Charitable Community Benefit Society, established in 2018, dedicated to transforming lives in Stockport. We work closely with local communities to support people into employment, alleviate poverty and enhance digital skills. Our services help individuals live independently while fostering strong community networks, particularly for those facing disadvantages