NRPF Case Lead - Fixed TermThis is a Gloucestershire County Council job. Job Title: NRPF Case LeadJob Location: Gloucestershire Salary: £41,771 - £47,181 per annum Hours per Week: 37 Contract Type: Fixed Term Duration: One year Closing Date: 11/01/2026 Job Requisition Number: 13287 This post is open to job share We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified NRPF Case Lead (No Recourse to Public Funds) to join our Gloucestershire Children and Families' team. Reward and Support For all your hard work, you will receive the following:between £41,771 - £47,181 per annum subject to experienceflexible and agile working opportunities25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro rata for part-time staff)option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your familysupportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervisionLocal 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 telephonean in-house Occupational Health serviceemployee discount schemecycle to work schemelinks to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Networkcareer development and qualification opportunitiesaccess to our Social Work AcademyCycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply) 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 NRPF Case Lead, you can expect to provide a high-quality service which involves advanced and complex decision making, problem solving within emergency situations and providing advice to the Children’s Social Care and Early Help workforce in relation to families with no recourse to public funds. The role incorporates communicating directly with the Home Office to check immigration status, rights and entitlements of migrants, expediting visa applications for regularisation and settlement in the UK, working in partnership with Team Managers and Group Managers to oversee the Local Authority NRPF section 17 budget, gathering, preparing and quality checking evidence for visa applications, completing financial assessments and Human Rights Assessments to support decisions around eligibility of services.You will offer support to Families under Section 17 including advising and working closely with Social Workers with next steps/case resolution/section 17 funding requests, completing destitution assessments, supporting social workers with child in need assessments and child in need plans, completing Human Rights Assessments, accessing and communicating with legal representatives, gathering evidence for visa applications, providing immigration advice, communicating with the Home Office teams to expedite claims and supporting the budget holder with section 17 funding access to resource requests. The role also requires strategic work including liaising with other Local Authorities in relation to best practice and exploring strategic priorities such as more cost-effective housing provision which is now in progress and managed as a team. Maintaining a high standard of report writing to update the NRPF guidance and policies for Social Workers and recording monthly spend under s17 to track the budget and inform future practice. As a NRPF Case Lead, you will be expected to offer training and upskilling to Social Workers as well as offering advice to professionals on NRPF matters and immigration advice. About You As well as your experience, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:a full driving licence and willingness to driveDBS clearance (Enhanced Adults and Children’s) How to apply For an informal chat about this role, please contact Phil.James@gloucestershire.gov.uk. We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications. Interviews are due to take place in person at Shire Hall on Wednesday 21st January 2026. 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. If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to CSWrecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error. By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential shortlisting criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process. *a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. 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:- NRPF Case Lead 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.We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.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.