Social Worker

Social Worker
SO2 (£36,124 - £40,446) for newly qualified social workers with less than 2 years’ experience ranging to SO3 (£38,626 - £43,693) for Experienced Social Workers with over 2 years' experience. Plus, essential car user allowance and reimbursement of Social Work England fees
37 Hours, Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid Stockport Civic Complex and Home Working

Application Deadline: 11:59pm 1 April 2026
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting and interviewing for this vacancy will take place as applications are received.

While we embrace the use of AI as an innovative tool to maximise our services at Stockport Council, we are looking for authenticity in applications we receive. We therefore ask you to think carefully if choosing to use AI when completing your application and ask that you ensure you read all instructions carefully and that your application is written by you and reflects your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm.

Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025

Your Role

Join us at Stockport Family and be the difference that helps transform lives. We’re on a determined journey of continuous improvement to good and beyond to outstanding, creating a dynamic and supportive environment where children, young people, and families thrive.

We’re building a new Permanence service for children in care, alongside our Locality social work teams who support families from first assessment through to the end of care proceedings. We’re looking for passionate social workers and team leaders to join both. Please indicate in your supporting statement which role you would liken to be considered for, or if you are interested in both positions.

We want you to have the right conditions to do your best work and you’ll get expert guidance, innovative resources, and a nurturing team. Our model of restorative and systemic practice ensures you’re always learning, growing, and supported every step of the way.

The words of our teams speak for themselves:

"I have been really lucky to have been supported by some incredible colleagues, who have offered me guidance and support and also challenge where appropriate, and this has helped me reflect on who I am and the kind of practitioner I want to be. I have felt like I mattered as a person and am part of a family." Leoni, social worker.

"I have a brilliant team and I’m lucky to be able to do some really purposeful direct work with children and with parents I feel like working in Stockport lets me be the social worker that I want to be." Jess, ASYE social worker.

About You

Our children and families deserve social workers just like you, hard-working, passionate about making a difference, and wanting children to reach their full potential. You’ll also be a team player, so you’re able to share your own knowledge with others and continue to learn.

You will build strong relationships and use creative, systemic skills to identify children and young people's needs, ensuring their voices are central. By recognising needs and risks, you will develop effective plans that create lasting change.

We know however, that this is a tough job and it’s a big ask. So, to do it well, you’ll be fully supported every step of the way. We have an excellent package of benefits, and you’ll get additional tailored support if you need it. We are using magic notes so that you can focus on doing social work rather being stuck at your desk.

We know you’ll come with a host of skills and things to share, but we know you need to continue to learn so you can thrive, and we will support you to flourish and develop in your career.

We would love to speak to you about our offer, our career development pathways and the difference you could make for the children and families in Stockport.

About Us

In Stockport, our vision is for all children to have the best start in life that’s why Stockport Family brings together education, health and social care services because the needs are families are complex, and we need to work holistic to meet them.

We have a model of restorative practice which means relationships are central to everything we do, not just with our families but with our colleagues too. We care about our use of language too, and we are very ambitious for the families we work with.

We have teams with experienced leaders, and a dedicated social work workforce development team, providing reflective and clinical supervision and we also offer innovative support services for families, including Family Drug and Alcohol Court, and New Beginnings so you can draw on their expertise to effect change for families.

Our commitment to our staff:

• Direct access to a team leader and two senior practitioners on each team, overseeing six social workers.
• We have a strong workforce development programme we introduce restorative practice to set the foundation, and a host of other training including working with SEND needs.
• For our ASYE’s we have a supportive programme, with a year-long series of practice development sessions.
• We encourage continual CPD and allow for protected time for you to do this. All our social workers are offered a yearly professional development review (My Conversation) to support your next career steps.
• We provide a solid induction into social work for oursocial workers, with a gradual increase in caseload and complexity ofwork.
• We offer high quality reflective supervision monthly and all our team leaders are trained in reflective and systemic supervision. There are opportunities for group and reflective supervision delivered by advance practitioners too. ASYE’s will have a reflective mentor to offer additional space to think and learn outside of your team.
• As our services are integrated, so there’s a wealth of expert advice all around you. We provide opportunities to seek specialist advice and consultation from various services such as our IROs, Aspire service for domestic abuse and complex safeguarding, and our disability and short breaks team.
• We offer a full corporate induction too where you can meet other professionals across the council - our senior leadership also maintain a relationship with our new starters, to ensure that they are settling in well.

What can we offer you?

As well as the benefits contained here we also offer:

• Modern and pleasant offices newly refurbished end of 2022, with the latest technology so you can work hybrid, and located in the town centre
• Reimbursement of your Social Work England regulator fees
• Full subscription to Research in Practice to access the latest research publications
• Discounted multi-storey parking on-site
• Essential Car User Allowance of up to £963 per annum
• Annual ‘Ambitious Stockport’ Awards to recognise colleagues who live our values every day in their professional lives
• The Stockport Family ASYE programme and post ASYE support.
• For more experienced social workers, the opportunity to be a Practice Educator and mentor a student, which you receive a payment for

Why Stockport?

• As a local authority, Stockport offers a supportive and vibrant working environment our teams are dedicated to delivering the very bestoutcomes for our children and families and we work together with our multi-agencypartners in a positive and upbeat way.
• You can find out more about what it’s like working for Stockport Family here.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Sophie Shaw on sophie.shaw@stockport.gov.uk an informal discussion about the role.

The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

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