Senior Social Worker

Stockport Council; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Stockport Council is seeking a Senior Social Worker to enhance well-being and lead a team within the Neighbourhood service. The successful candidate will support the development of social workers while promoting a culture of teamwork and accountability. This hybrid position involves a minimum of two office-based days per week and requires a commitment to safeguarding under the Care Act.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with adults in line with the Care Act.
• Experience in developing and supporting social workers.
• Good understanding of budgets and their impacts.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and supervision within the team.
• Establish a strength-based culture focusing on teamwork and outcomes.
• Support newly qualified and experienced social workers.

Skills

Team Player

Time Management

Organisational Skills

Creativity

Problem Solving

Budget Understanding

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Senior Social Worker
SO3 (circa £43,693)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
Hybrid working: Baker Street and homeworking (office-based minimum of 2 days per week)

Application Deadline: 26 June 2025, 11:59pm
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 Date: 30 June 2025
Interview Date: 7 July 2025
Interview Type: Face to Face

Your Role

The Neighbourhood service is looking to recruit a Senior Social Worker who has experience of working with adults in line with the Care Act to promote and enhance their well-being.

The post holder will provide support with leadership at an appropriate level to establish and maintain a strength-based culture of teamwork, achievement, accountability, and outcome focused. This includes providing supervision and support to the staff team as well as contributing to the ever-developing service.

About You

We are looking for somebody who:

• Is a team player, who has experience and drive in developing and supporting, newly qualified and experienced social workers to achieve the best they can.
• Has good time management and organisation skills.
• Has ambition and creativity, we are a developing service, and we are looking for individuals who can be creative and good at problem solving.
• Has the ability to understand budgets and the impacts.

About Us

Neighbourhood teams are at the heart of the community, our teams are based in 4 areas that cover Stockport South, North, East and West. We work within the Care Act to support our residents to lead Happier and Healthier lives through wellbeing and prevention agenda. We also look to ensure the safety of our residents under S42 Safeguarding under the Care Act, we do this again with the person at the centre of this, making safeguarding personal. We work collaboratively with our partner agencies and our committed to the council’s vision off one heart, one mind, one Stockport and work to an ethos of promoting the glorious ordinary lives of our residents.

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.

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If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Lynn Hagan at [emailprotected] for 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 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 an interview 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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We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.