Fostering Social Worker

We are currently recruiting for a part time Social Worker to join our Fostering Kinship Support team.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £40,444 – £48,738 per annum (pro rata for part-time staff)
• £3,6000 welcome payment* (pro rata for part-time staff)
• £2,000 retention payment* (pro rata for part-time staff)
• 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 (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)

* Please note that all our welcome and retention payments are subject to terms and conditions as well as tax and national insurance deductions

* Please note that our relocation policy is subject to terms and conditions

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.

The Kinship Support Team provide on going support, advice, and guidance to Foster Carers who have been assessed to care for a child who is known to them. This could be a relative or any connected persons to the child. The Kinship Support Team begin supporting carers post foster panel approval and will provide regular supervision and support focusing on meeting the national minimum standards, accessing training and support groups, completing their TSD’s (training support and development standards) and providing support in any aspect relating to the child in their care.

Kinship carers are a crucial role in providing children with stable and secure family life and the support our team provides is key in maintain family connections and supporting a child’s identity. We provide support to foster carers both locally to Gloucestershire but also nationally therefore travelling is expected as part of the role. We…