Assistant Team Lead/ Senior Social Worker

Experienced Assistant Team Lead and Senior Social Worker roles within Mental health and Autism

MB4 (£45,091 - £51,356) This role is eligible for an Essential Car User allowance of up to £963 per annum.

37 Hours, Full Time (Flexible working requests can be submitted for part time or condensed hours)

Permanent

Hybrid - Baker Street office and homeworking (office based three days per week)

Application Deadline: 11:59pm 25th June 2026

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: 29th June 2026

Interview Date: 7th July 2026

Interview Type: In person

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Your Role

We’re looking for experienced assistant team lead and senior social worker within a busy Mental Health and Autism to join us at Stockport Council.

You’ll support experienced and newly qualified social workers across the team and offer dedicated supervisions to enable sound and autonomous decision making in a supportive environment and team.

You will provide leadership at an appropriate level and ideally have experience at a management level. You will hold a complex caseload and maintain strengths based culture within the team aiming to drive the team forwards to succeed in supporting the people of Stockport to live a gloriously ordinary life and embed this model in the work we do.

You will strive to contribute to changes within the team and service and developing and leading with projects to support the residents of Stockport to live safe, fulfilling, and independent lives, using your professional judgement and expertise every day. Your work will include:

• Supporting newly qualified social worker within the ASYE programme, and demonstrating best practice to less experienced team members.
• Completing Care Act assessments, strengths based support planning, and proportionate risk assessments
• Undertaking Mental Capacity Act assessments and providing clear, well reasoned best interest assessments.
• Working closely with the Community Mental Health Team and wider multi disciplinary colleagues
• Chairing 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
• Participating in the duty manager role in being available to offer support and guidance to all social workers and social care officers.
• To have or aim to gain additional post qualifying skills such as AMHP, BIA or Practice educator.

About You

You’ll be motivated to make a real difference to adults with mental health needs and autism across the team.

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 the Autism Strategy. These would be essential. 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.

You will be able to lead the team and make evidenced based decisions in the absence of Team Lead as required.

You will have ambition, creativity to develop the service, problem solving and ability to understand budgets and the impact this has on the service. Experience if managing this will be advantageous.

Experience of managing sickness and performance will also be advantageous but is not essential to the role.

You will be comfortable working with high levels of risk within an area of service assessing and supporting people with complex needs, severe and enduring mental health and neurodiversity.

If you’re someone who enjoys complex work, meaningful relationships with service users, and seeing the impact of your interventions, you’ll thrive here. If you want to join an established, friendly and bubbly team that work hard and support colleagues to reach their potential and develop the team and service further, then come and join 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 leadership 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. Development opportunities include Practice Educator, Approved Mental Health Professional, Best interest assessor.

Social work England registration can be reimbursed after a period of permanent employment on an annual or 6 monthly basis.

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.

Please contact Sarah Kerr on ***email_hidden*** for more information or an informal chat about either of the available roles.

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

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application. Please also email [email protected].

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