Job Description

Children with Disabilities Social Worker

SO2 - 36,124 to 40,446 for newly qualified social workers with less than 2 years' experience ranging to SO3 - 38,626 to 43,693 for Experienced Social Workers with over 2 years' experience

37 Hours, Full Time

Permanent

Hybrid: Stopford House and homeworking, with expectation of at least 3 days per week office/community based.

Application Deadline: 22nd July 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 Date: 23rd July 2025

Interview Date: 25th July 2025

Interview Type: Face to Face

While we embrace the use of AI as an innovative tool to maximise our services at Stockport Council, we are looking for authenticity in applications we receive. We therefore ask you to think carefully if choosing to use AI when completing your application and ask that you ensure you read all instructions carefully and that your application is written by you and reflects your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm.

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Your Role

We are growing our CWD Service and looking for passionate social workers committed to inclusive and strengths-based practice. This is an exciting time to join us in Stockport as we have made significant investment in our CWD service to ensure we deliver the right support at the right time for the growing needs of disabled children in Stockport. We work with the children with the most complex needs in Stockport who are children in need as well as those in need of protection and children in our care. We are ambitious for our children and Preparation for Adulthood is a key priority to ensure children and young people reach their potential. CWD Social workers are vital in driving strong collaborative plans and ensuring that young people are at the centre of decision making.

About You

You will be a passionate social worker, committed to inclusive and strengths-based practice to support children to thrive and reach their potential. You could be an early career social worker 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 you would be expected to have at least 2 years of statutory social work experience, including experience of social work with disabled children. You will be relational in your practice and able to build connections with children and young people using a variety of different communication approaches. You will be creative and collaborative in your approach to multi-agency working, ensuring that the child's voice is at the centre of decision making. You will be committed to continuous learning and development, recognising the changing legal, policy and research landscape for disabled children. You will be ambitious for children's future, seeking to empower and equip them to live 'Gloriously Ordinary Lives' as adults.

About Us

This is an exciting time for us in Stockport as we are developing our CWD service to meet the growing needs of disabled children in Stockport. The service now has two teams led by experienced social work Team Leaders with a mix of qualified and alternatively qualified colleagues to ensure that we have seamless transfers between short breaks and social work. We have also invested in a specialist CWD training offer to support communication with disabled including Talking Mats and Makaton. We also offer training on Mental Capacity Act and Continuing Care in addition to our wider Stockport Family Practice Framework training model. We are co-located with our EHCP service, Neurodiversity Team and Inclusion service supporting strong collaborative working.


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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 Suzannah Sammons on suzannah.sammons@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.

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

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