Senior Social Worker; Sensory Team

About The Role

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent, full-time

Additional Payments: Essential Car User Allowance

Closing Date: 10 March 2026

Closing time: 11.59pm

Interview Method: Face to Face

Legal right to work: In accordance with Home Office guidance, successful candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment.

References: 2 references – where possible, we require 3 years history.

Qualification: Social Work qualification and registration with Social Work England.

Medical clearance: Pre-placement health assessment (PPHA).

Essential Car Documentation: This post is a designated Essential Car User. Therefore, you must always hold a full valid driving licence and provide your own car for use  will receive the Essential Car User Allowance.

DBS clearance: This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Appointable candidates will be required to apply for an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice. We have a policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders and it is available upon request.

Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI can be a useful tool to support your application. However, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own), applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

The Senior Social Worker in the Sensory Team provides professional leadership in delivering high‑quality, person‑centred support to adults with vision and hearing loss across Manchester, including people who are deafblind. The role ensures services are inclusive, well‑coordinated and responsive to complex needs, while supporting the team to meet safeguarding policies and professional standards.

Working with individuals, carers and families, the Senior Social Worker promotes independence, safety and wellbeing through a strengths‑based, person‑centred approach. The role includes completing complex assessments, supporting care planning and interventions, and enabling people to live safely and independently while maintaining choice and control.

As a senior practitioner, the post holder provides guidance and support to colleagues, contributes to quality assurance and practice development, and plays a key role in safeguarding, risk management and protection from abuse in line with legislation and professional standards.

The role involves close partnership working across adult social care, health, housing, and voluntary and community organisations to ensure joint‑up support for people with sensory loss.

If you share Manchester’s ambition to deliver high‑quality services and empower people with sensory loss to live safely, independently and with dignity, we would welcome your application.

This role is central to driving high‑quality practice and positive outcomes for adults with sensory loss across Manchester. As a Senior Social Worker, you will lead and influence safeguarding practice, support robust and lawful Mental Capacity Act decision‑making, and provide professional oversight in complex cases. You will play a key role in chairing and contributing to multi‑disciplinary meetings, ensuring effective collaboration, shared accountability and timely decision‑making.

If successful, you will join a team of dedicated professionals committed to promoting independence, advocating for people’s views, wishes and choices, and ensuring support is shaped around their personal, agreed outcomes while maintaining safety, dignity and wellbeing.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact the hiring manager, Stephen Nicholas, Sensory Team Manager, on  or Sharon Bristow, Complex Needs Service Manager, on  Alternatively, you can email stephe or sharr to arrange a convenient time to discuss the post.

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