Leaving Care Personal Adviser
Kirklees Metropolitan Council
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Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
Gloucestershire County Council is recruiting Leaving Care Personal Advisers to join the Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham teams. The role focuses on supporting care leavers to transition to adulthood with practical and emotional guidance.
The post requires a full driving licence and DBS clearance; hybrid working arrangements are available, and the council offers development opportunities through the Social Work Academy.
Qualifications
- Full driving licence is required and you must be willing to drive.
- DBS clearance (Enhanced Adults and Children’s) is required.
- Experience in children’s services or social care is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Work with a caseload of young people and develop plans to enable transition to adulthood.
- Work alongside Social Workers to ensure a smooth and supported transition from care.
- Provide practical and emotional support to care leavers.
- Engage in multi-agency approaches to deliver quality services and outcomes.
Skills
Job description
We are currently recruiting for permanent Leaving Care Personal Advisers to join our dedicated teams in Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham. We also have a 12 month fixed term position based in Gloucester.
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
- between £33,143 – £36,363 per annum subject to experience (pro rata for part-time staff)
pay award pending at 3.3% salary will increase to £34,237- £37,563 per annum/pro rata for part time
- flexible and agile working opportunities
- 25.5 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 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
- links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- career development and qualification opportunities
- access to our Social Work Academy
- Cycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
- Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
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.
We are currently recruiting for a Leaving Care Personal Advisers to join our dedicated Leaving Care team in Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham.
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.
You will join us as a Leaving Care Worker (Personal Adviser) and will work with a caseload of young people developing plans enabling young people to transition into adulthood.
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.
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 drive
- DBS clearance (Enhanced Adults and Children’s)
We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.
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.
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Leaving Care Personal Adviser Job Profile
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.
Company: Gloucestershire County Council
Salary: £33,143 – £36,363 per annum
Location: Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
Sector: Health and Social Care
Sector: Adult Services
Job Role: Advisor
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