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* Job Title: Leaving Care Personal Adviser
* Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 1
* Salary: £33,143 - £36,363 per annum
* Hours per Week: 37
* Contract Type: Fixed Term
* Duration: One year
* Closing Date: 19/10/2025
* Job Requisition Number: 12521
* This post is open to job share
We are currently recruiting for a Leaving Care Personal Adviser to join our dedicated Leaving Care team on a 12 month fixed term contract.
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* between £33,143 - £36,363 per annum subject to experience
* flexible and agile working opportunities
* 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
* option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
* family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
* supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
* Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
* access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
* an in-house Occupational Health service
* employee discount scheme
* cycle to work scheme
* links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
* career development and qualification opportunities
* access to our Social Work Academy
Right child, right support, right time, every time
In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said: Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.
This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.
Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.
We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.
About The Role
As a Leaving Care Personal Adviser in the Staying Close Team. You will work with a caseload of care experienced young people in developing plans and support to enable young people to transition into adulthood.
You will be expected to have some general knowledge about the Staying Close Agenda although this can differ across local authorities.
You will be expected to work alongside Social Workers to ensure a smooth and supported transition when they come to leave care. Your core focus will be to work with young people, enabling them to develop independence skills. You will provide care leavers with practical and emotional support.
You will be committed to working in a multi-agency manner, thus providing quality services and outcomes for young people, as they transition into adulthood and independent living. You will be a skilled communicator enabling you to build up effective working relationships with a variety of young people from different backgrounds. The role may also at times involve supporting and leading group work sessions and encouraging and developing the participation of young people in shaping the services we deliver.
About You
We are looking for someone with experience of working with children, young people, families, and communities to deliver a wide range of interventions.
A full driving licence and access to a car is essential for this role.
Experience of working with multi-agency assessments and plans is also a must.
How To Apply
For an informal chat about this role, please contact Tina Philp at Tina.Philp@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Interview date is 21st October 2025
We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.
If you would like to find out more about our Children\'s Service please take a look here: Children\'s Social Care Careers | Gloucestershire County Council
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior).
To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:- Leaving Care Personal Adviser job profile
This position is subject to a DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
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