Job Details
Family Help Social Worker
SO3 (£39,862- £45,091)
37 Hours, Full-Time
Temporary, Maternity Cover until March 2027
Hybrid: Stockport Civic Complex, Neighbourhoods and homeworking
Application Deadline: 15th April 2026 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: 17th April 2026
Interview Date: 27th April 2026
Interview Type: Face to Face
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Join us at Stockport Council – MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025
Your Role
As a Social Worker within our Family Help Team, you will provide a front-line service, working to in line with Stockport Family’s start well and early help strategies, national supporting families programme and the healthy child programme 0-19 to ensure families receive the right response at the right time.
You will pay an integral role in children and family’s journey through services and in particular key transitions points (stepping up and down from statutory social work) and act as lead professional and/or keyworker for those families in need of more help.
This is an exciting time to join our service, if this is for you, please see the role profile for further information.
About You
You will have good time management skills and the ability to work to deadlines that may require re-prioritisation, you will be enthusiastic, flexible, have excellent communication skills and be confident in providing quality advice and consultation to other professionals.
You will be a social worker, who can draw on a range of experiences, knowledge and skills to support your team, senior practitioner SW and family help team leader. You will be a good communicator, able to build trusting relationships with team members so that they feel able to approach you for advice and support.
You will have a good understanding of early help and statutory interventions available to support and protect children in Stockport underpinned by knowledge of applying Stockport’s threshold of need document.
You will have an understanding of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and Stockport’s entitlement framework.
You will be committed to your professional development, take up the vast amount of learning opportunities on offer and be excited about being part of Stockport Family.
About Us
If you join us, you will be working within Stockport Family which is an integrated Education, Health and Care service which puts children, young people and families at the heart of our provision.
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 Karen Hayes via email karen.hayes@stockport.gov.uk to arrange 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 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
Eligible at-risk employees are entitled to have their applications considered ahead of internal employees in line with the Council’s Recruitment and Selection Policy. At risk employees are either employees in the last three months of their fixed term contract, or those who have been notified in writing that they are at risk by Human Resources following an employee consultation meeting. Employees wishing to be considered as an at-risk applicant are requested to email recruitment@stockport.gov.uk to inform Human Resources. At risk applications are only permitted for opportunities at the employees’ current grade or grades below.
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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.