For social workers with 2 years post-qualification experience there will be a 5% market supplement offered from 1st April, pending a pay review.

 

 

Application Deadline: 2nd April 2024 

Shortlisting Date: 3rd April 2024 

Interview Date: 10th April 2024 

Interview Type: Face to face 

 

 

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 an exciting opportunity for a social worker to join our Domestic Abuse Team on a permanent basis. The Domestic Abuse Team is a small team of specialist social workers with a dedicated Domestic Abuse Team Leader. The team work collaboratively with multi-agency colleagues from children’s social care, health, education, police, and wider community organisations, including IDVAs to support best practice in relation to domestic abuse where children and families are affected. The team works alongside locality social work colleagues with families to support the planning, assessment and interventions that take place. The team also represent children’s social care in forums such as daily risk meetings, MARAC, and MAPPA, sharing information and contributing to risk assessment and safety planning.  The domestic abuse team also contribute to the development of wider learning and training opportunities for the wider service and support the delivery of the Caring Dads programme.

 

This role will have a particular focus on working with those who cause harm; supporting colleagues to intervene and engage with fathers/men and perpetrators of domestic abuse and will become a facilitator of Caring Dads. 

 

Here’s what one of the social workers have said about their experience the Domestic Abuse Team: -

 

‘We have a really lovely, supportive team which gives so many opportunities to work closely with families and bring about meaningful change. There are some amazing colleagues and managers who bring tonnes of knowledge and skills and it’s a very friendly ‘lets learn from each other’ atmosphere. I’ve worked here nearly 9 years and it really is a great team to be a part of!’ Sarah Jane, Social Worker

 

 

• Our relationships with families and with each other being at the heart of everything we do. We have a model of restorative practice and relationships are the key to how we work together – comprehensive restorative practice training is offered to all

 

• Systemic social work practice – to help bring about the change that families need to be safe and thriving – access to systemic practice training and foundation year, including systemic supervision skills

 

• Opportunities to become a Practice Educator and to develop your supervision skills in supporting ASYE social workers

 

• Co-located, integrated working bringing social workers, health, and education services together so you can get the help you need quickly for families

 

• High quality and regular reflective supervision, recognising we are humans first, professionals second

 

• Specialist trauma-informed services to support you when you are working with issues such as high-risk domestic abuse, substance misuse or complex safeguarding 

 

• Access to Stockport Family clinical psychologists and therapeutic social workers, who can provide formulation to sensitively guide the work with children and families

 

• Innovative and creative ways of working so that there are always opportunities for your personal development and to learn how to do things differently.

 

• Supportive leadership who listen and respond to feedback

 

• Creative direct work kit bag given to every social worker

 

• Regular informal learning circles to keep your knowledge and skills up to date

 

• Dedicated workforce development managers for every stage of your career 

 

• Genuine commitment to your Continuing Professional Development with regular opportunities across Stockport Family for short and long training courses tailored to your needs and interests; we are committed to your professional development. Many of our team leaders started their careers as social workers in Stockport, and we are committed to supporting you to grow your career with us.

 

• Access to corporate leadership and supervision programmes, support, and coaching. 

 

Support for social workers also includes regular check-ins with workforce development and colleagues from across Stockport Family and opportunities to attend meetings with senior leaders to think about our continued journey of learning and improvement to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and families in Stockport. 

 

 

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.

 

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 are looking for a social worker who is passionate about relationship-based social work, proud of your profession and able to reflect and think creatively about how you can build relationships to make a difference with children and families. 

 

You will have an interest and desire to work with and improve the lives of children living with or affected by domestic abuse. Working with domestic abuse victims and survivors and working with perpetrators of domestic abuse. 

 

You will be committed to your professional development, take up the vast amount of learning opportunities on offer and be excited about being a part of Stockport Family. 

 

In Stockport Family we value diversity and the unique perspectives that each of us bring and are committed to being an inclusive and aspirational place to work for all colleagues.  

 

 

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 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 have a model of restorative practice which means relationships are central to everything we do, not just with our families but with our colleagues too. We care about our use of language too, and we are very ambitious for the families we work with.

 

We believe that change is possible through the building of strong relationships where there is both high support, and where necessary, high challenge. All colleagues are offered training to help us develop this restorative approach. 

 

To support our social workers with this, we have teams with experienced leaders, 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. 

 

 

• Direct access to a team leader and a senior practitioner on the team.

 

• We have a strong workforce development programme – we provide an introduction to restorative practice to set the foundation, and a host of other training including working with SEND needs.

 

• For our ASYE’s we have a supportive programme, with a year-long series of practice development sessions.

 

• We encourage continual CPD and allow for protected time for you to do this. All our social workers are offered a yearly professional development review (PDR) to see what’s next in your career.

 

• We provide a solid induction into social work for our social workers, with a gradual increase in caseload and complexity of work.

 

• We offer high quality reflective supervision on a monthly basis from your line manager - all of our team leaders are trained in reflective and systemic supervision. There are opportunities for group and reflective supervision delivered by senior practitioners too. ASYE’s will have a reflective mentor to offer additional space to think and learn outside of your team.

 

• As our services are integrated, so there’s a wealth of expert advice all around you. We provide opportunities to seek specialist advice and consultation from various services such as our IROs, complex safeguarding, and our disability and short breaks team.

 

• We offer a full corporate induction too 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.

 

 

As well as the range of employee benefits contained below we also offer: 

 

• Modern and pleasant offices newly refurbished end of 2022, with the latest technology so you can work hybrid, and located in the town centre

 

• Reimbursement of your Social Work England regulator fees

 

• Full subscription to Research in Practice to access the latest research publications

 

• Discounted multi-storey parking on-site

 

• Essential Car User Allowance  from £846 per annum in addition to your salary

 

• Annual ‘Ambitious Stockport’ Awards to recognise colleagues who live our values every day in their professional lives

 

• The Stockport Family ASYE and SSYE programmes, find out more here 

 

• For more experienced social workers, the opportunity to be a Practice Educator and mentor a student, which you receive a payment for

 

 

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.

 

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