Experienced Social Worker - Mental Health and Autism - dedicated duty social worker

Experienced Social Worker - Mental Health and Autism - dedicated duty social worker
SO3 (£39,862 - £45,091)
37 hours, Full-Time (flexible working requests can be submitted for part time or condensed hours)
Permanent
Baker Street

Application Deadline: 1 September 2026, 11:59pm
Shortlisting Date: 2 September 2026
Interview Date: 9 September 2026
Interview Type: Face to face

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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. This will include the same duties and responsibilities as outlined below but will be more fast paced, short term work. A smaller caseload will also be held and other responsibilities in line with the needs of the service.
  
• 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. These would be desirable. 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.

Opportunities would be Practice Educator, Approved Mental Health Professional, Best interest assessor, Senior social worker and other areas of management.

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.

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.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Sarah Kerr at sarah.kerr@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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