NRPF Case Lead

• Job Title : NRPF Case Lead
• Job 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.

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

• between £41,771 - £47,181 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 (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
• 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
• Cycle 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.

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…