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Job Opportunities

Manchester City Council promotes the Real Living Wage of £13.45 an hour.
Find out more about the Real Living Wage.

Latest Vacancies

🆕St Brigid’s RC Primary School

KS2 Class Teacher

St Brigid’s RC Primary School is seeking a temporary KS2 Class Teacher to join their team for two terms. The role involves fulfilling the professional responsibilities of a teacher, meeting the Teachers’ Standards, and supporting the Catholic ethos of the school.

Candidates should be kind, caring, flexible, and able to work positively with children and parents, with a genuine passion for every child’s potential and high expectations for learning and behaviour.

Salary: £32,916 – £45,352
Location: Manchester
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Temporary
Closing Date: 12 December 2025

🆕Chorlton Park Primary

Behaviour Support Assistant & Lunchtime Lead

Chorlton Park Primary is seeking a Behaviour Support Assistant & Lunchtime Lead to join their team. This role involves supporting children’s emotional wellbeing and behaviour in a nurturing environment, as well as leading the lunchtime team to ensure a positive experience for pupils. Responsibilities include promoting emotional regulation, managing behaviour proactively, and building positive relationships with pupils, parents, and staff.

The position requires a minimum Level 3 Education and Childcare or Teaching Assistant qualification, excellent communication skills, and an understanding of SEMH and SEND strategies.

Salary: £26,403 per annum
Location: Manchester
Hours: Part Time (25 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 7 December 2025

🆕Manchester City Council

Business Support Officer Level 1

Manchester City Council is seeking a Business Support Officer Level 1 to join their team. This role involves providing administrative support, managing appointments, handling phone calls, greeting visitors, and inputting data across multiple systems. Candidates should have strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with internal and external customers.

Salary: £25,185
Location: Manchester
Hours: Full Time (35 hours per week) or Part Time (17.5 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 2 December 2025

🆕Kids Planet Day Nurseries 

Early Years Educator

Kids Planet Day Nurseries is seeking an Early Years Educator to join their Hazelhurst team. This role involves providing exceptional care and education in accordance with the EYFS, supporting each child’s unique needs, and building positive relationships with families. Candidates must hold at least a Level 2 early years qualification and have a strong understanding of safeguarding and EYFS.

Salary: £26,007 – £26,424 per year
Location: Manchester (M28 2LS)
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 25 December 2025

 NHS Jobs

Laboratory Administrative Officer

NHS Jobs is recruiting a Laboratory Administrative Officer to provide clerical and administrative support in a laboratory environment. Duties include data entry, handling telephone enquiries, managing consumables, and supporting laboratory operations.

Salary: £25,651 – £27,220 per year
Location: Manchester (M13 9WZ)
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 2 December 2025

Applicants should have good communication skills, previous data entry experience, and the ability to follow written protocols. GCSEs (A*-C) including English and RSA 2 typing or equivalent are required.

Fitch Group

Paid Internships

Fitch Group is offering 6-month paid internships and is currently recruiting for multiple roles. This is a great opportunity for individuals looking to gain experience in a global organisation.

Details:

• Duration: 6 months
• Paid internships
• Various roles available

Apply now via LinkedIn:
View roles and apply here

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Secure Receptionist

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Secure Receptionist to join their Adult Forensic Service team. This role is the first point of contact for staff, patients, carers, and visitors, ensuring safety and smooth operation of the unit.

Key responsibilities include managing reception duties, handling enquiries sensitively, maintaining accurate records, and supporting security protocols. The role also involves coordinating visitor access, logging maintenance requests, and responding to emergencies.

Salary: £24,465 per year (pro rata) plus enhancements for unsociable hours
Location: Prestwich, Manchester
Hours: Part Time
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 13 December 2025

NHS Jobs

Experienced General Practice Nurse

NHS Jobs is seeking an Experienced General Practice Nurse to join their team. This role involves delivering high-quality nursing care, managing chronic disease clinics, and supporting health promotion initiatives. Responsibilities include administering immunisations, managing disease registers, leading infection control, and providing specialist care for conditions such as asthma, COPD, and cardiovascular disease.

The position requires NMC registration, strong clinical skills, and the ability to work independently while maintaining accurate documentation and adhering to practice protocols.

Salary: £21.00 – £25.00 per hour
Location: Manchester (M32 0PA)
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 15 January 2026

Old Moat Primary School

Family Worker and Designated Safeguarding Deputy

Old Moat Primary School is seeking a committed Family Worker and Designated Safeguarding Deputy to join their team. This role focuses on supporting safeguarding and child protection policies, improving pupil attendance, and providing tailored family support.

Key responsibilities include working closely with parents/carers, overseeing attendance procedures, delivering family engagement sessions, and collaborating with multi-agency partners to ensure pupil wellbeing.

Salary: £29,064 per year (Grade 5, pro rata)
Location: Manchester
Hours: Part Time – 21 hours per week (Term Time Only)
Contract: Permanent
Start Date: January 2026 (subject to pre-employment checks)
Closing Date: 10 December 2025

GuardWare

Pre-Sales Engineer – Cyber Security Products

GuardWare is seeking a Pre-Sales Engineer to join their growing UK team in Manchester. This full-time, hybrid role involves supporting sales and pre-sales teams by preparing product demonstrations, running proof-of-concepts (POCs), and assisting customers in evaluating GuardWare’s data-centric security solutions.

The position is ideal for those early in their IT or cybersecurity career, offering mentoring, structured training, and exposure to enterprise customers.

Main duties include participating in discovery meetings, delivering demos and presentations, supporting proposal preparation, assisting with solution deployment during trials, maintaining demo environments, and contributing to customer training. The role requires strong communication skills, technical aptitude, and a passion for cybersecurity.

Salary: £35,000 – £50,000 (depending on experience)
Location: Manchester
Hours: Full Time – Hybrid
Closing Date: Not specified

Martenscroft Nursery School & Children’s Centre

Early Years Teacher

Martenscroft Nursery School is seeking a passionate Early Years Teacher to join their Outstanding-rated setting. This full-time, permanent role involves delivering a child-centred curriculum, fostering a nurturing environment, and working collaboratively with a skilled team to support holistic development for children aged 5 months to 4 years.

Main duties include planning and delivering play-based learning, championing outdoor and creative exploration, and building strong partnerships with families and the wider community. The role requires QTS or EYTS, a deep understanding of the EYFS framework, and a commitment to safeguarding and inclusive practice.

Salary: £32,916 – £45,352 per year
Location: Manchester
Hours: Full Time
Closing Date: 8 December 2025

One Education Ltd

Music Service Administrator

One Education Ltd is seeking a Music Service Administrator to join their Music team. This permanent, term-time role involves providing administration support for internal and external customers, working closely with the Business Manager across all areas of the Music Service. Duties include handling data, managing spreadsheets, and delivering excellent customer service.

The role requires strong administration and telephone skills, proficiency in Microsoft Office, and the ability to work with data. Travel within Greater Manchester may be required; a driving licence and access to a vehicle would be an advantage but not essential.

Salary: £22,320 – £24,180 per year
Location: Manchester
Hours: Term Time – 35 hours per week (42 weeks per year)
Closing Date: 3 December 2025

Thrive Childcare and Education

Lead Practitioner

Thrive Childcare and Education is seeking a Lead Practitioner for Holyrood Dryden Street nursery. This full-time, permanent role involves supervising daily nursery operations, leading a team of practitioners, and ensuring high-quality care and education for children aged 0–5 years. The position requires strong leadership skills, a passion for early years education, and a Level 3 qualification or above.

Main duties include overseeing staff, maintaining a nurturing environment, and supporting career development opportunities. The role offers excellent benefits such as childcare discounts, health plans, additional paid leave, and progression opportunities.

Salary: £13.00 – £13.25 per hour
Location: Dryden Street, Manchester, M13 9AU
Hours: Full Time
Closing Date: 06 December 2025

dnata Catering 

General Assistant

Dnata are seeking dedicated and motivated General Assistants to join the team. This full-time role involves supporting operations and maintaining high standards across the workplace

Candidates to complete the attached Reference History Form in full, ensuring no gaps exceeding 28 days.

Hourly Rate: £12.74 per hour
Hours: 40 hours per week
Contract Type: Full Time

Closing Date: Ongoing 

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Assist and Care 

Community Care Assistant

Assist and Care is seeking compassionate Community Care Assistants to support older people in their own homes across South Manchester and The Heatons. This role includes companionship, personal care, home help, dementia care, medication support, and respite care.

Due to client preferences, this opportunity is open to female applicants only. Full training is provided on the job, and the organisation promotes the Real Living Wage.

Salary: £12.80–£13.10 per hour
Location: South Manchester & The Heatons
Hours: Flexible
Closing Date: Ongoing

Ongoing Vacancies 

Factory International 

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

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.

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.

Jobcentre Plus

Jobcentre Plus social media channels share current jobs vacancies across Greater Manchester between 8am and 8pm, 7 days a week.

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Facebook - @JCPinManchester

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 

GLL Apprenticeship Vacancies

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

GM Recruitment Hub

GM Recruitment Hub Job Search

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

Home Instead

Join the Home Instead team today

Home Instead (Wythenshawe) are hiring Care Professionals/ Care Assistants passionate about delivering the highest quality of care. You will show patience and resilience and be dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of others.

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

What they offer:

• Min 1 hour visits with regular  clients
• £14 (Week) - £15 (Weekends)  per hr recognising the essential role you play in our clients' lives.
• Sufficient time to travel between calls, ensuring you never feel rushed.
• Paid Training
• Paid DBS
• Paid Mileage
• Employee Assistance programme
• Benefits Platform
• Social events

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

If you believe in delivering care that goes beyond the ordinary, they'd love to hear from you. Follow the above link to apply or call the office 0161 506 8305 or text or call  07740251899.

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.

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

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.