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Job Opportunities

Manchester City Council promotes the Real Living Wage of £12.60 an hour.
Find out more about the Real Living Wage.

(We will continue to promote vacancies paying £12 an hour and up, until 1 May 2025)

Vacancies with an upcoming closing date are at the top.

There is a list of employer vacancy pages further down under 'Ongoing Vacancies'

Latest Vacancies 

Metroline Manchester

Various job opportunities with Metroline Manchester

To discover opportunities and find the role that’s right for you, either email joinmanchester@metroline.co.uk or click the link above to search opportunities on their website.

Department for Work and Pensions

🆕Work Coach

DWP are recruiting for a number of Work Coaches. The Work Coach role is rewarding, varied and complex and no two days will be the same as you will be dealing with different customers face to face and their specific support needs each day. If you’re looking for a career that makes a clear and positive difference to people’s lives, then a DWP Executive Officer role may be an ideal for you! 

Hours: Various working hours available
Salary: £30,975
Closing date: 3 December

One Million Mentors 

🆕Programmes Administrator

The Programmes Administrator will be in charge of the smooth running of 1MM Mentoring Programmes in Greater Manchester and other regions, including the supporting of mentors and mentees through their journey. By ensuring a fast and effective onboarding process, timely communication, and ongoing support for their participants the Programmes Administrator will assist Regional Managers and/or the Head of Delivery with maximising the positive impact of 1MM’s mentoring programmes. This role reports to the Head of Delivery. 

Hours: 37.5
Salary: £22,000
Closing date: Ongoing 

Food Production Supervisor

Food Production Supervisor

You will ensure that quality control measures and hygiene systems are all achieved at all times. To prepare, cook and present food to Patients in line with exceptional departmental standards, using fresh ingredients. To participate in the HACCP procedure in accordance with the Trusts Food Safety Policy and maintain correct use of records. To ensure that quality control measures and hygiene systems are always achieved. To have accountability for the day-today running of the kitchen service. To actively participate in the ongoing management and development of menus, in line with Trust guidance. To actively discuss ideas with the customer and obtain constructive feedback. To Maintain staff training records and supervisions in line with trust guidance.

Hours: Full time 
Salary: £26,530 to £29,114
Closing date: 4 December 

Manchester City Council 

🆕Business Support Officer Level 2

They are looking to recruit a highly organised individual who will be expected to provide confidential, accurate and timely administrative duties. You should possess commitment to team working, be proactive in your work ethic, able to manage your own workload and be expected to show initiative and be responsive to the needs of the service.  

Hours: Full time 
Salary: £25,584 to £27,269 
Closing date: 6 December 

Lunchtime Organiser

Lunchtime Organiser

Oasis Academy Aspinal are looking for an individual who is committed to the care, wellbeing and supervision of the children and who will support and encourage play and welfare during the lunchtime period.

If you are interested in joining the Academy please complete an application form and return it by 12 noon Friday 6 December 2024 to Mrs J Schofield at admin@oasisaspinal.org.

Hours: Term time only 
Salary: £23,656
Closing date: 6 December 

Lancashire Cricket 

Heritage Manager 

This role offers a unique opportunity for an individual with an interest in, and passion for, sporting and/or social history to develop and deliver a heritage focussed capital project and outreach programme, helping to create a ground-breaking world-class heritage experience at Emirates Old Trafford (EOT) that reaches out to communities across the county of Lancashire and beyond. The role will be directly responsible for leading a team of Heritage Volunteers and, subject to a successful Delivery Phase application, will directly line-manage x 2 Community Engagement Officers and x 2 Customer Services ‘Welcomers’, ensuring the successful delivery of all onsite and community outreach / digital programming.

Hours: Full time 
Salary: £40,000 too £45,000
Closing date: 11 December 

The Opportunity Hub UK Ltd 

🆕Junior CAD Technician Manchester

As a Junior CAD Technician, you'll be the blueprint to their success! You'll play a key role in turning conceptual designs into detailed technical drawings. Your technical skills and attention to detail will help them turn big ideas into even bigger projects.

Hours: Full time 
Salary: £20,000 to £26,000 
Closing date: 23 December 

Manchester City Council 

🆕Teaching Assistant Level 1 SEN

You will:

• To be a part of a team providing exceptional education for students so that they become happy, confident adults.
• The post holders will support teaching and learning across school, providing general support in the management of pupils and resources.
• To work under the supervision of the class teacher, department lead, Senior Leadership Team and Headteacher. 

Hours: 25 hours per week (part time) 
Salary: £14,993 
Closing date: 8 December 

Hays Specialist Recruitment

🆕Executive Administrator

Hays are recruiting for an Executive Administrator on a permanent basis. This role is located in Manchester City Centre and is a new position for a fast-growing business. You will be responsible for full commercial support for a legal business, corporate experience is essential, you will provide effective administrative assistance for the department, you will manage all department files, open and close files, ID checks, archiving, data updates, diary management, arranging travel, ensure all compliance standards are met. You will manage billing processes, draft documents, maintain case management systems, you will handle calls be accountable for email management, you will draft complex documents and support with any other duties required by the partners.

Hours: Full time 
Salary: £27,000 to £30,000
Closing date: 25 December

B2W Group

2x Restart Employment Advisor

You will support participants who have been out of work for at least 12 months in finding sustainable employment by understanding and supporting individual needs of each participant. This will include working with multiple internal and external stakeholders, to provide tailored support to each participant.

Hours: Full time
Salary: £28,500
Closing date: 31 December

Factory International 

Keep up with the latest job opportunities: 
Current job openings - Manchester International Festival (mif.co.uk)

Ongoing Vacancies 

Manchester City Council Jobs

See vacancies and opportunities (Manchester City Council).

Civil Service Jobs

See vacancies, working for the Civil Service

Find a job - DWP

Search for vacancies with a range of employers, in Manchester, Greater Manchester and nationally.

Age UK Manchester 

Various Job Opportunities 

Age UK Manchester is an independent charity, supporting older people across Manchester. With over 100 members of staff, they help thousands of local older people every year; providing information and advice, activities, events, and home support.

Aspire Recruitment

View the latest Aspire Recruitment vacancies advertised on their website

Be Caring

Various vacancies

Be Caring regularly have vacancies in various sites in Manchester. They are often looking for care workers and drivers. Choose the site in the Locations drop down box and find your next job

Belong Didsbury

Various vacancies

Belong Didsbury is a community village in South Manchester with state of the art facilities and high quality nursing and dementia care.
Find out about their vacancies by visiting the Belong vacancies page and choosing Belong Didsbury from the drop down list under Location.

Career Connect

Find out about the latest job vacancies at Career Connect 

Construction Industry Talent Retention Scheme (TRS)

The Construction Talent Retention Scheme (CTRS) is a free service to help:

• Individuals search for a new job
• Employers post job vacancies & search CVs
• Employers with restructuring and redeployment

Find out more about the Talent Retention Scheme 

Change Grow Live

Change Grow Live is a Manchester-based adult and young persons drug and alcohol service. Refer someone or yourself to Change Grow Live 

Once you are ready to look for work then you can move onto the Individual Placement Support IPS service

• IPS uses a personalised and strength-based approach to support people to find a job of their choosing.
• IPS aims to help people find paid jobs within just weeks of being referred to the service.
• Then it continues to work with both employer and employee to sustain the job placement for as long as possible, or to help the client into a different job.
• IPS directly tackles the lack of integration of healthcare and employment services and the disconnection of different specialists by integrating employment specialists into health teams.   

GLL Apprenticeship Vacancies

Check out the webpage regularly to find out about new vacancies
GLL Apprenticeship Vacancies | Apprenticeship Vacancies (lifetimetraining.co.uk)

GMCVO partner vacancies

GMCVO External Vacancies page

GMCVO advertise vacancies from their partners, usually the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector

Home Instead

Join the Home Instead team today

Find out more about being a part of the Home Instead team and apply to become a Care Professional

Join them for Talk Care Tuesdays: Become a Home Instead Care Professional

Are you looking for a fulfilling career where you can make a real difference in the lives of older people? Look no further than Talk Care Tuesdays with Home Instead Altrincham Sale and Wythenshawe!

Join them Every Tuesday from 1pm to 2pm at Home Instead Altrincham, Sale and Wythenshawe, located at The Parflo Building, Huxley Street, Broadheath, WA14 5EL.

Get personalised advice on starting a career with Home Instead Altrincham, Sale, and Wythenshawe.

Discover why their Care Professionals love their role and get answers to all your questions.

• Benefits of working with Home Instead:
• Minimum 1-hour call times
• Regular clients
• Full training provided
• Rates of pay: £13.40 per hour during the week, £14.40 per hour on weekends, plus mileage
• Care experience not necessary

As Julie, one of our Care Professionals, says, "Not one Care company does what Home Instead does."

And Jackie, another Care Professional, shares, "I like being able to make a difference to someone’s day, leaving them feeling safe and supported."

Can't Make It on Tuesdays?

No worries! They understand that Tuesdays might not work for everyone. Simply give them a call at 0161 506 8305 and they can arrange for you to pop in.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT)

View all the Manchester University NHS vacancies here 

Here are a few tips to think about when completing the “Supporting Information” section of an application on the NHS Jobs site.

One Manchester 

Various job opportunities
Take a look at the list of latest job vacancies with One Manchester.

Screen Manchester

Crew & Facilities Service
Due to the region’s ever-growing popularity from indigenous, national and International productions, there is increasing demand for experienced local crew and facility companies. To meet this demand, Screen Manchester launched a regional Crew and Facilities service.

Their aim is to provide an essential database resource for production companies looking to hire experienced locally based freelance crew and source facilities across Manchester and the wider region. 

They would now like to invite experienced production freelancers and facility companies to Register to be included on the Crew and Facilities Database.

Think Employment

Are you looking for teaching support?

Think Employment have candidates ready to interview. Their candidates are level 3 qualified and DBS checked. 

At Think Employment, the (Ofsted Rated 'Good') training provider, they're offering a select-few Manchester-based education institutions collaboration to provide candidates for their roles. They only enroll the most suitable people on their Bootcamp, monitoring their progress, ability, and passion for a career in teaching support. Upon completion of their Bootcamp, learners receive a Level 3 qualification and are fit to provide teaching support to educators. You tell them when you're hiring, and they'll send you suitable candidates.

Get in touch to find out more, email:Jo-anne.daley@thinkemployment.com

Volunteering Opportunities 

Age UK Manchester

Day centre volunteers

Age UK's Day Centres are looking for volunteers to assist  Support Workers, who provide Day Care for older ladies and gentlemen with Dementia.

Information and advice volunteers

Age UK are currently looking for volunteers to work within their Advice Team, helping older people to overcome a range of problems, particularly relating to welfare benefit entitlements.

Volunteer counsellors

Age UK's Counselling Service is looking for volunteer counsellors, either fully qualified or those currently training to be a counsellor.

Shop volunteers (no minimum commitment)

Age UK are looking for volunteers at their Manchester shops - if that's you and you have spare time, then apply to become a shop volunteer.

Translator Volunteers

Age UK is seeking volunteers to help older people at their Brunswick Day Centre with communicating with staff and their peers. Service users sometimes lose the capacity to speak English and revert to their native tongue, which creates a communication barrier. Volunteers help to break this barrier down. Age UK are particularly looking for speakers of Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and Patois. 

Ageing Well Volunteers

Age UK are looking for volunteers who want to help at Ageing Well groups to assist with running the group, preparing for activities, and being a friendly face. Groups range from craft groups to exercise groups to Men in Sheds. Please note that there is a minimum commitment of three months.

Find out more and apply to volunteer: Volunteer | Get involved | Age UK Manchester

All In One Learning Centre

Volunteer Opportunity: Conversational English Instructor

As a Conversational English Teacher, you will play a crucial role in the language development of the learners, helping them gain confidence and fluency in English. You will engage with students in practical, everyday conversations, facilitating a friendly and supportive environment where they can practice new skills and improve their proficiency.

18 hours per week (can be flexible)

Interested candidates can apply by sending their resume outlining their interest and qualifications for the role to info@allinonelearningcentre.co.uk

Emerge Manchester

Give and Gain Programme

Need your CV to stand out? Get voluntary work experience in a food distribution team,practical woodwork skills, free safety wear, travel expenses covered, and lunch provided.

Gain:

• One to one support from experienced trainers
• Work experience in a range of duties
• Skills you need for getting on at work

For more information email Liz@emergemanchester.co.uk or call 0161 223 8200 (option 6) 

Smart Works

Smart Works are looking for the following volunteers:

Volunteer stylist
Wardrobe volunteer
Volunteer coach
Administration volunteer
Community Engagement Champion
Corporate Volunteer

More information about this role and other volunteering opportunities can be found on the Smart Works website, along with the application form: Smart Works Volunteering Roles. For any queries on their volunteering roles, please contact greatermanchester@smartworks.org.uk

The Conservation Volunteers

Clayton Vale's Green Community Hub

A new opportunity to get involved with your local green space by volunteering, learning new skills, connecting with nature and meeting new people! Fun and free environmental conservation and nature connection activities are running from Clayton Vale with sessions alternating each week.

• Alternate Thursdays 10am to 1pm, Practical environmental conservation.
  Tasks may include woodland management, path improvements, meadow management and more.

• Alternate Thursdays 10am to 11.30am, Nature based wellbeing sessions.
  Activities may include nature crafts, wellbeing walks, mindfulness in nature and more.

Whether you are looking to be more active, spend time in nature, meet new people, gain skills for employment or simply have some time to spare - everyone is welcome!

You are welcome to join both types of session every week or just one type every other week. There is no obligation; you can come as often or as little as you like. Transport to Clayton Vale may be available from a local community venue if needed.

To find out more or to sign up please email rebecca.collingwood@tcv.org.uk

Work and Skills Team, Manchester City Council

It's never too late to start volunteering

Volunteering is when someone spends time doing something to benefit others. It can include shopping for someone, being a mentor, assisting someone with a job search, giving reading lessons, helping at a food bank, befriending – and much more.  Anyone can volunteer; you can do as much or as little as you like, to fit around your life. It may be a regular activity, a one-off, or anything in between. Volunteering is for people of all ages, abilities, experiences and backgrounds. You don’t need any skills or qualifications to begin volunteering. Your past experiences may be extremely useful when volunteering.

How can I get involved?

In Manchester there are many ways you can find an opportunity that suits you.

Volunteer Centre Manchester
The Volunteer Centre has a site where you can find details of local volunteering opportunities, advice on volunteering, help with finding the right volunteer role, and more.

MCRVIP
MCRVIP is a volunteering site managed by Manchester City Council. This is where you can find opportunities to volunteer with Council teams such as Libraries, MCRactive and Manchester Art Galleries.