At a Glance
- Tasks: Support adults with mental health needs to live fulfilling, independent lives.
- Company: Join Stockport Council, a recognised leader in inclusive employment.
- Benefits: Flexible working, professional development, and competitive salary.
- Other info: Collaborative team culture with strong support and career progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives while growing your career.
- Qualifications: Minimum two years' experience in social work, passionate about mental health.
The predicted salary is between 31500 - 38500 £ per year.
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Your Role
- We're looking for experienced social workers in a variety of roles within Mental Health and Autism to join us at Stockport Council.
- You’ll support adults across Stockport to live safe, fulfilling, and independent lives, using your professional judgement and expertise every day.
- Your work will include:
- Being dedicated duty social worker and being first point of contact for the team and service users contacting when often in a crisis situation prior to annual review or allocation.
- Completing Care Act assessments, strengths based support planning, and proportionate risk assessments.
- Undertaking Mental Capacity Act assessments and providing clear, well reasoned social circumstance reports.
- Working closely with the Community Mental Health Team and wider multi disciplinary colleagues.
- Leading and contributing to safeguarding enquiries, ensuring people are protected and empowered.
- Using your professional autonomy to make decisions rooted in the Care Act 2014, the Mental Health Act, and best practice social work.
- Balancing independent working with being part of a supportive, well established, friendly and knowledgeable team.
About You
- You must have minimum two years' post qualifying experience in a social worker role.
- You’ll be motivated to make a real difference to adults with mental health needs.
- You’ll be committed to a strengths-based and person-centred practice as well as knowledgeable and passionate about mental health social work, with a solid understanding of the Mental Health Act and or the Autism Strategy.
- You’ll be confident in working independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, with skills to help people maintain independence and promote community and asset-based approaches.
- If you're someone who enjoys complex work, meaningful relationships with service users, and seeing the impact of your interventions, you'll thrive here.
About Us
- You will join a service that values your professional development and wellbeing.
- We offer regular supervisions to support reflective practice and strong peer support from a well-established team.
- There are opportunities for career progression, with a wide access to training and Continuing Professional Development.
- We have a workplace culture rooted in collaboration, compassion and learning.
- This is a team where your skills will be recognised, your ideas welcomed, and your development encouraged.
At Stockport, we offer benefits such as claims for mileage, essential car user allowance, salary sacrifice schemes on cars, bikes and electronics via VIVUP. Social work England registration can be reimbursed after a period of permanent employment on an annual or 6 monthly basis.
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.
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.
Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.
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.
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