Family Help Service Lead MB2 ( 59,395 67,990) 37 hours, Full-Time Permanent Hybrid: Stopford House, Family Hubs and homeworking Application Deadline: 11:59pm 3rd November 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: 4th November 2025 Interview Date: 12th 13th November 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. Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025 Your Role As the Family Help Service Lead, you ll be responsible for the continued shaping and delivering of targeted family hep across Stockport. You ll oversee the offer of early, effective support for children and families, ensuring services are timely, joined-up and responsive. Working alongside other leaders you will be integral to implementing the Family First Partnership Programme. You ll lead a skilled team, including social workers, family help coordinators and family help intervention workers and work closely with partners across education, health and social care to ensure children and their families get the right help at the right time. With a focus on prevention, collaboration and positive outcomes you ll champion a culture of continuous improvement and keep the voice of children and families at the heard of everything you do. About You As a passionate, qualified social worker and experienced leader, you ll bring skills and insight to guide, support and inspire a workforce delivering targeted early help at the right time. You ll have a clear understanding of thresholds, the importance of intervention at the earliest opportunity, safeguarding and when escalation required when a child may be at risk of harm. Reflective and relational in your approach, you ll build strong partnerships across agencies and communities. You ll provide confident leadership, supervision and challenge, championing the value of early help and accessible support in neighbourhoods. With experience of leading through change, you ll bring stability, motivation, and a clear direction to teams during times of transformation. About Us 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 Rachel Rolings, Head of Service MASSH and Family Help on 07800 618661 or rachel.rollings@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 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 recruitment@stockport.gov.uk. Privacy Notice Follow our recruitment team on X, Instagram and Facebook for updates on our vacancies and recruitment events. 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