Senior ECET Worker

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                           Senior ECET Worker
• Job Location:                     The Vibe 
• Salary:                              £41,771 - £47,181 per annum 
• Hours per Week:                37 
• Contract Type:                   Permanent                    
• Closing Date:                    15/02/2026 
• Job Requisition Number:    13205 
• This post is open to job share

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Exploitation & Complex Engagement Case Responsible Officer for our new Harm Outside The Home team(HOTH).

Reward and Support

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
• 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.

About The Team

We are launching a new specialist intervention team focused on supporting children and young people who are at risk of harm outside the home (HOTH). This team will work closely with the HOTH Hub and multi-agency partners to provide targeted interventions for children assessed as experiencing significant harm, and, where appropriate, those with moderate concerns. Our aim is to develop innovative ways of supporting parents, carers, and survivors, including specialist community-based support groups.

About You

We are looking for passionate individuals with experience in working with children and families, strong communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in a multi-agency environment. If you are committed to safeguarding and want to be part of a pioneering team making a real difference, we would love to hear from you.

As a Senior Exploitation & Complex Engagement Case Responsible Officer, you will be confident, experienced and committed to working alongside others to promote a learning culture and support managers in the continuous improvement and development of harm outside the home practice.   You will work with children and families with more complex needs, and you may be asked to oversee the practice of others.   This role will require you to take a lead role in the continuous development of practice within this area of work ensure that we keep children at the heart of our assessments, interventions and decision making so that they, and their families receive coordinated and appropriate support.

As well as your experience, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• Graduate or equivalent professional qualification (Level 4 NVQ, Social Care, Education, Youth Work, Advice & Guidance, LDSS, Criminal Justice, Health).
• flexibility to meet the needs of children and young people which will inevitably entail some work outside normal office hours and other locations across Gloucestershire.
• ability to drive or travel across the county in line with service need
• DBS clearance (Enhanced Adults and Children’s)
• Trained in the AIM framework for working with adolescentts who display harmful sexual behaviour or willing to undertake this training.

How to apply 

For an informal chat about this role, please contact either Jane Willett on Jane.Willett@gloucestershire.gov.uk or Fiona Walker on Fiona.Walker@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 Tuesday 24th February and Wednesday 25th February.

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:-

Senior ECET Worker 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.