Senior Practitioner

**Locality Senior Social Work Practitioner**
**SO3 (£42,488- £48,062) plus 10% market supplement, 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: 1 July 2025, 11:59pm**
**Shortlisting date: 3 July 2025**
**Interview Dates: 9 July 2025**
**Interview Type: Face to face**

**Your role**

We’d love you to come and join our Stockport Family Here in Stockport, 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.

We have a unique way of working which is centred all around relationships; our 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. They’ve told us that this is really important to them.

As a Senior Practitioner in Stockport Family, you will get to meet families, build relationships with them, and retain these relationships across all levels of intervention, meaning you’ll see the outcomes of the hard work you’ve put in. This will also provide you with a breadth of different skills and experiences, which will go some way in enhancing your social work knowledge.

Our Senior Practitioners are key people in our management structure. We ask our Senior Practitioners to be real sources of support to our Team Leaders you will be crucial to performance management, the development of student and ASYE social workers and hold a reduced but more complex caseload, in order to support you to develop professionally, but also to give you the time and space you need to really develop your team.

In Stockport, career development is key. Our Team Leader cohort grew their careers from being social workers in Stockport we are committed to growing our Senior Practitioners and supporting you with your long-term career goals. We have a system of mentoring and buddying to support you to develop your career in whatever direction interests you and our yearly PDRs have really positive feedback from our social workers in terms of how they support with career development.

You will be a part of a friendly and welcoming team, with each team having two experienced senior practitioners and a skilled, nurturing team leader.

Here’s a couple of things our current social workers have said about their experience with Stockport Family:
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, 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.

**About You**

In Stockport, we are driven by our values so we want social workers who are motivated by building relationships with children and families and to take an empowering approach to working with families. We would ideally like our Senior Practitioners to have experience of working across both duty and locality systems and to have held both private and public court proceedings, as well as experience of the pre-proceedings process.

To help us meet the needs of our children and families and to help them when they need it most, we need social workers just like you, people who are hard-working, passionate about making a difference, and wanting children to reach their full potential. You’ll also be a team player, so you’re able to share your own knowledge with others and continue to learn.

We know however, that this is a tough job and it’s a big ask. So to do it well, you need to be fully supported every step of the way. This is why we have an excellent package of benefits, including additional tailored support if you need it, all of which are detailed below.

Learning and development is a key part of our culture, at every stage. We know you’ll come with a host of skills and things to share, but we know you need to continue to learn so you can thrive. So we will support you to flourish and develop in your career.

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.

**About Us**

In Stockport, our vision is for all children to have the best start in life. We co-designed an outcomes framework that we are committed to as our vision for supporting children and families in Stockport which is
- 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