Senior Social Worker
| Posting date: | 11 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK4 1QQ |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75695564 |
Summary
Senior Social Worker (North Neighbourhood Team)
SO3 (circa £43,693) this role is eligible for an Essential Car User allowance of up to £963 per annum.
37 hours, Full-Time (08:30am - 5pm, Monday to Friday)
Permanent
Hybrid: Baker Street and homeworking (2 days per week in the office and 1 day where you would be expected to do visits)
Application Deadline: Thursday 1st May 2025
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: Friday 2nd May 2025
Interview Date: Friday 9th May 2025
Interview Type: Face to Face at Baker Street Office
Your Role
The Adult social care 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 in a busy neighbourhood team.
The post holder will provide 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
The Adult social care neighbourhood teams work with people aged over 18 who have a Disability / mental health need or a cognitive impairment. Our team is based at Baker Street in Heaton Norris. We cover the North area of Stockport, Reddish, Brinnington, Woodley, Romiley, Bredbury and parts of central Stockport. We work within the Care Act to support individuals to lead Happier and Healthier lives through wellbeing and prevention agenda. We also look to ensure the safety of individuals under S42 Safeguarding under the Care Act, we do this again with the person at the centre of this, making safeguarding personal. We work with GP’s, our District Nursing Service and have strong links with the Mental Health team in Stockport. We work hard to ensure residents of Stockport have Ordinary Glorious lives.
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 on 07891949438 Lynn.hagan@stockport.gov.uk 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.
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