Pathway Plan Reviewing Officer
SO3 (£39,862 - £45,091)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
Hybrid: Grand Central / Stopford House / Community / Home based working
Application Deadline: 31 August 2026, 11:59pm
Shortlisting Date: 1 September 2026
Interview Date: 4 September 2026
Interview Type: Face to face
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The Role
The role is responsible for reviewing and quality-assuring Pathway Plans for Stockport care leavers, ensuring full statutory compliance and consistently promoting high-quality practice. It places care-experienced young people at the centre of all planning, amplifying their voice, wishes and feelings, and ensuring each plan reflects their strengths, identity and aspirations. The role supports practitioners to set ambitious, realistic goals that build independence, stability and wellbeing. It also fosters a culture of reflective practice by offering constructive feedback, identifying patterns, and promoting continuous learning. Through trauma-informed, relational quality assurance, it enhances consistency and champions excellent direct work.
About You
A qualified and SWEregistered social worker with strong experience in Leaving Care and Children in Our Care, skilled in multiagency collaboration and confident chairing complex meetings. Communicates clearly in both written and verbal forms and has experience developing and implementing practice initiatives. Able to build trusting relationships with careexperienced young people and apply current research and innovation relating to care leavers. Demonstrates strong understanding of quality assurance frameworks and their role in improving practice. Highly competent in assessing and managing risk, including safeguarding concerns and the psychological needs of vulnerable young people.
About Us
This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of careexperienced young people as they move toward independence. You will join a supportive, traumainformed Leaving Care Service that values reflective practice, strong relationships and highquality planning. Our team is committed to innovation, youngpersoncentred approaches and collaborative working with partners. We offer regular reflective supervision, strong management support, access to ongoing training and opportunities to shape service development. This is an ideal role for someone passionate about empowering young people and contributing to a positive, forwardthinking service that prioritises their voice and aspirations.
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 Clare.bibby@stockport,gov.uk or [email protected] 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-guaranteedassessment-scheme
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