Overview

Advanced Social Work Practitioner
MB4 (£45,091 - £51,356) plus essential car user allowance and reimbursement of Social Work England registration fees.
37 Hours, Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid Stockport Civic Complex and Home Working

Application Deadline: 8 October 2025, 11:59pm

Shortlisting date: 9 October 2025
Interview Dates: 10 October 2025
Interview Type: Face to face

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.

We embrace the use of AI as an innovative tool to maximise our services at Stockport Council and ask that applications are written by you and reflect your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm.

Your role

Join us at Stockport Council as a Senior Practitioner in Stockport Family. We’re looking for driven, dedicated, and caring children’s social workers to help support some of our most important people, our children and their families. Our approach centres around relationships; social workers assess and deliver interventions from the point of a family needing support until that family no longer requires a statutory service from us, meaning for our families there are no transition points.

As a Senior Practitioner you will meet families, build relationships, and retain these relationships across all levels of intervention, to see the outcomes of the work you’ve done. You will be a key part of our management structure, providing support to Team Leaders, contributing to performance management, developing student and ASYE social workers, and holding a reduced but more complex caseload to support professional development.

In Stockport, career development is key. We support long-term career goals with mentoring, buddying, and yearly professional development reviews (PDRs).

You will be part of a friendly team where each team has two experienced senior practitioners and a skilled team leader.

Current social workers have shared positive experiences of support, collaboration, and purposeful direct work with children and families.

About You

In Stockport, we are driven by our values and seek social workers motivated by building relationships and empowering families. Ideally, Senior Practitioners will have experience across both duty and locality systems, with exposure to private and public court proceedings and experience of the pre-proceedings process. We look for hard-working, passionate individuals who want children to reach their full potential, who are team-players and willing to share knowledge and learn.

Learning and development is a key part of our culture. We will support you to flourish and develop in your career and offer tailored support as needed.

About Us

In Stockport, our vision is for all children to have the best start in life. We co-design an outcomes framework focused on safety, belonging, health and wellbeing, achievement, voice, and empowerment. We operate a restorative practice model where relationships are central to everything we do, with a strong emphasis on language and ambition for families.

• I feel safe
• I feel part of my local community
• I enjoy good health and wellbeing
• I am confident and able to reach my goals
• I am happy and have people I can trust
• The people that love and care for me are enabled to do this
• My voice is heard and acted upon

We provide reflective and clinical supervision, training, and support services for families, including New Beginnings and Comma. Our workforce development team supports reflective practice and supervision and we offer innovative services praised by the DFE.

Our commitment to our staff

• Direct access to a team leader and two senior practitioners on each team, overseeing six social workers.
• Strong workforce development programme, including restorative practice induction and SEND-related training.
• Protected time for CPD and yearly professional development reviews (PDR).
• Solid induction into social work with progressive increase in caseload and complexity.
• High-quality reflective supervision monthly from line managers; ASYE mentors provide additional space to think and learn.
• Access to expert advice and consultation from IROs, Aspire service, disability and short breaks teams, and other services.
• Full corporate induction with ongoing support from senior leadership for new starters.

What can we offer you?

• Modern and pleasant offices with hybrid work options in the town centre
• Reimbursement of Social Work England regulator fees
• Full subscription to Research in Practice
• Discounted on-site parking
• Essential Car User Allowance from £846 per annum
• Annual ‘Ambitious Stockport’ Awards
• Opportunity to be a Practice Educator and mentor a student with payment

Why Stockport?

Stockport offers a supportive and vibrant working environment with multi-agency partnership collaboration. We aim to recruit people with the right values and behaviours aligned to our workplace values. We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter for wellbeing and fair working conditions.

If you would like to discuss the role, please contact Sophie Shaw at Sophie.shaw@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion.

The successful applicant

The 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 campaign does not qualify for sponsorship beyond eligible roles.

If you have completed GM Elevate (Leadership Development) please indicate this in your application and email recruitment@stockport.gov.uk.

Please note the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme: a qualifying interview invitation if you meet criteria.

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