Learning and Improvement Lead: Family Help

Stockport Council; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Stockport Council is seeking a Learning and Improvement Lead for Family Help. This senior role leads learning, improvement and quality assurance across Family Help, driving transformation and ensuring timely, effective support for children and families.

Working with senior leaders, practitioners and partners, you will use data to inform improvement, coordinate training, and guide change in a complex environment while combining Stopford House presence with homeworking.

Qualifications

• Qualified social worker with substantial experience in children and families.
• Evidence of leading projects, change and service improvement.
• Strong leadership, programme management and analytical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead learning, improvement and quality assurance across Family Help.
• Drive family help transformation and support delivery of the Early Help Strategy.
• Use data and QA to inform improvement and ensure timely, appropriate help.
• Collaborate with senior leaders, practitioners and partners to drive change.

Skills

Leadership

Programme management

Analytical skills

Partnership working

Training delivery

Quality assurance

Education

Qualified social worker

Job description

Learning and Improvement Lead: Family Help
MB3 (£53,051 - £60,084)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
Hybrid: Stopford House and homeworking

Application Deadline: 28th September 2026, 11:59pm
Shortlisting Date: 2nd October 2026
Interview Date: 8th October 2026
Interview Type: Face to Face

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Your Role

This is an exciting opportunity to lead learning, improvement and quality assurance across Family Help in Stockport.

You will help drive family help transformation, support delivery of the Early Help Strategy and contribute to the Families First Partnership transformation programme. Working closely with senior leaders, practitioners and partners, you will strengthen services, use data and quality assurance to inform improvement, and help ensure children and families receive the right help at the right time.

About You

You will be a qualified social worker with substantial experience of supporting children and families and leading projects, change and service improvement.

You will bring strong leadership, programme management and analytical skills, alongside experience of partnership working, delivering training and coordinating quality assurance activity. A confident communicator and influencer, you will be able to build positive relationships, turn learning into action and lead change in a complex environment.

About Us

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.

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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