Children's Social Worker
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 August 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK1 3XE |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75718102 |
Summary
Children’s 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: 11:59 30th September 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 and Interviews for this vacancy will take place as applications are received.
Interview Type: Face to Face
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Your Role
In Stockport, our vision is for all children and young people to have the best start in life, be happy, safe, to be able to build and maintain healthy relationships, attend school and learn, be prepared for adulthood and able to achieve their goals.
"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, experienced 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.
In Stockport, we are looking for social workers with passion and drive who are dedicated to supporting children and their families and who want to work in a relational model of practice.
We are lucky to be able to offer our social workers a breadth of different experiences, with our localities working from the point of initial referral to stepping a family down. This means our social workers will often work with families at the point of Child in Need (TAC), Child Protection and also within court proceedings.
To support our social workers with this, we have teams with experienced leader, and a dedicated social work workforce development team, providing reflective and clinical supervision and we also offer innovative support services for families, which have been praised by the DFE including New Beginnings and Comma.
If you are looking to further your career in social work, either from the point of ASYE or with more experience, 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!
You could be an early career social workers who would be supported through the ASYE and SSYE programme, or someone who is more experienced and looking to develop their career further. For the experienced social worker position (S03) you would be expected to have at least 2 years of statutory social work experience at statutory level.
About You
We are looking for social workers who are passionate about making a difference for children and their families.
In Stockport, we are driven by our values we would like our social workers to be motivated by building relationships with children and families and to take an empowering approach to working with families.
Learning and development is a key part of our culture we will support you to flourish and develop in your career.
You could be an early career social workers who would be supported through the ASYE and SSYE programme, or someone who is more experienced and looking to develop their career further. For the experienced social worker position (S03) you would be expected to have at least 2 years of statutory social work experience at statutory level.
About Us
Our commitment to our staff
- We have an extensive workforce development programme which offers an introduction to restorative practice, training around working with SEND needs and regular protected time to complete CPD. All our social workers are offered a yearly professional development review (PDR).
- We ensure a strong induction for our social workers, with a gradual increase in caseload and complexity of work.
- Alongside this, we offer high quality reflective supervision on a monthly basis - all of our team leaders are trained in reflective and systemic supervision. There are opportunities for group and reflective supervision delivered by senior practitioners and our workforce development team and there are opportunities to seek specialist advice and consultation from our Aspire service about domestic abuse and complex safeguarding.
- We offer a full corporate induction 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.
- Direct access to a team leader and two senior practitioners on each team, overseeing six Social Workers.
What can we offer you?
- As well as the benefits outlined in the attachment below, we can also offer:
- Discounted multi-storey parking on-site
- Annual ‘Ambitious Stockport’ Awards to recognise colleagues who live our values every day in their professional lives
- Essential Car User Allowance
- The Stockport Family ASYE and SSYE offers.
Why Stockport?
- As a local authority, Stockport offers a supportive and vibrant working environment our teams are dedicated to delivering the very best outcomes for our children and families and we work together with our multi-agency partners 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 via email sophie.shaw@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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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.
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