Family Help Senior Social Worker​/Social Worker

• Job Location:
  Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Stroud, Cotswolds, and Forest of Dean

• Salary: £40,444- £48,738 per annum

• Hours per Week: 37.00

• Contract Type:
  Permanent

• Closing Date: 29/11/2026

• Job Requisition Number: 14776

• This post is open to job share

At Gloucestershire, we are transforming the way we support children, young people and families through our Family Help approach. We are looking for passionate and dedicated Social Workers who want to work in supportive, collaborative multi-agency teams to create lasting change and help children thrive safely within their communities.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a progressive service that focuses on building relationships, delivering early support and achieving better outcomes for children and families.

We are currently recruiting for Family Help Social Workers and Family Help Senior Social Workers to join our locality Family Help teams. Gloucestershire covers six localities and we currently have vacancies in Forest of Dean, Cotswolds, & Stroud.

For all your hard work. You will receive the following;

• between £40,444 - £42,123 per annum for a Family Help Social Worker or between £43,149 - £48,738 per annum for a Family Help Senior Social Worker subject to experience pro rata for part time

• annual retention payment of £2,000*

• welcome payment of £3,600*

• up to £8,000 relocation package*

• flexible and agile working opportunities

• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service

• an 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, 24 hours a day, online and by phone

• 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

• paid SWE registration renewal

We work together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help.

We have ambitious improvement and transformation plans to create the optimum conditions within which our staff can make a real difference and improve outcomes for children.

We aim for the same Family Help Social Worker to support children and their families from the front door until permanence is achieved either through positive change and the child remaining with their parent/s or legal permanence being secured either within the family or outside of the family.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to join 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.

Our team structures are designed to ensure there is the right level of support available to staff and that caseloads are kept at a manageable level with a Family Help Team Manager, two Family Help Team Leaders and 12 Family Help Social Workers and Family Help Leads making up each team’s full complement of staff. Each team is linked to a local Children’s Centre offering meaningful, cohesive services which reach into our community.

We believe…