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Care Leaver Support Worker Employment Contract UK

Name: Care Leaver Support Worker Employment Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: social_work_care_leaver_support_worker_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Set consistent practical support for young adults moving from care towards safe, sustainable independence.

Watercolour illustration showing Care Leaver Support Worker at work in Social Work on a pale sage background

This contract includes Deliver practical support linked to pathway goals. Help with housing education work and appointments. Build budgeting tenancy and daily-living skills. Preview before payment PDF and editable DOCX files after checkoutBuilt for UK employers

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
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Job description

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Probation period

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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

Before you create it

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When to use this contract

Deliver practical support linked to pathway goals, deliver help with housing education work and appointments, and build budgeting tenancy and daily-living skills.

Workplace context: Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the age range geography and support model. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the visit travel and out-of-hours arrangements. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the money contact and gift boundaries. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the missing-contact safeguarding and emergency routes. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering CQC requirements where applicable.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: A Care Leaver Support Worker helps young people navigate accommodation, education, employment, health, identity and everyday living. Terms should cover pathway-plan actions, appointments, home visits, travel, budgeting support, contact boundaries, missing contact, exploitation risk and coordination with personal advisers. The worker should not control a young person's money informally, promise housing or financial awards, or use personal messaging outside approved arrangements. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

the age range geography and support model
the visit travel and out-of-hours arrangements
the money contact and gift boundaries
the missing-contact safeguarding and emergency routes
the personal adviser housing education and duty contacts

Day-to-day operating brief

What Care Leaver Support Worker work looks like in practice

A Care Leaver Support Worker helps young people navigate accommodation, education, employment, health, identity and everyday living. Terms should cover pathway-plan actions, appointments, home visits, travel, budgeting support, contact boundaries, missing contact, exploitation risk and coordination with personal advisers. The worker should not control a young person's money informally, promise housing or financial awards, or use personal messaging outside approved arrangements. Responsible for providing safe, respectful care or support within competence, following care plans, protecting dignity, maintaining accurate care records and escalating welfare, safeguarding, medication or service concerns promptly The Employee is employed as Care Leaver Support Worker in the Employer's Social Work business. The role involves providing safe, respectful care or support within competence, following care plans, protecting dignity, maintaining accurate care records and escalating welfare, safeguarding, medication or service concerns promptly The Employee must follow the social work operational controls that apply to care leaver support worker work, including CQC requirements where applicable, safeguarding, care planning, medication procedures, dignity and privacy, accurate record keeping, escalation and safe working requirements The Employee must protect care plans, medication records, service user information, safeguarding records, family communications and any related personal data, operational records, system access details or confidential information accessed while performing care leaver support worker duties Care Leaver Support Worker work in Social Work must follow CQC requirements where applicable, safeguarding, care planning, medication procedures, dignity and privacy and the Employer's policies, data protection controls, health and safety rules, records, escalation routes and training requirements Care Leaver Support Worker Safeguarding awareness Person-centred conduct Record accuracy Work may involve viewing accommodation, practising travel, organising identity documents or preparing for an education meeting. Each practical action should remain connected to the young person's pathway priorities rather than becoming an open-ended substitute for their choices.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Deliver practical support linked to pathway goals.
Help with housing education work and appointments.
Build budgeting tenancy and daily-living skills.
Maintain purposeful contact and accurate records.
Report exploitation safeguarding and accommodation risks.

A realistic working scenario

Outputs to agree

deliver practical support linked to pathway goals
help with housing education work and appointments
build budgeting tenancy and daily-living skills

Records and evidence

The age range geography and support model.
The visit travel and out-of-hours arrangements.
The money contact and gift boundaries.
The missing-contact safeguarding and emergency routes.
Care plans.
Care notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Registered Manager, Service Manager, Team Leader or Care Coordinator. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

A Care Leaver Support Worker helps young people navigate accommodation, education, employment, health, identity and everyday living. Terms should cover pathway-plan actions, appointments, home visits, travel, budgeting support, contact boundaries, missing contact, exploitation risk and coordination with personal advisers. The worker should not control a young person's money informally, promise housing or financial awards, or use personal messaging outside approved arrangements.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

Care record systems.
Rostering systems.
Medication records where authorised.
Moving and handling equipment where trained.
Secure communication tools.

Workplace context

Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

Training and certification

Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

the age range geography and support model
the visit travel and out-of-hours arrangements
the money contact and gift boundaries
the missing-contact safeguarding and emergency routes

Information the employer should prepare

the age range geography and support model
the visit travel and out-of-hours arrangements
the money contact and gift boundaries
the missing-contact safeguarding and emergency routes
the personal adviser housing education and duty contacts

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Care Leaver Support Worker contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for social work work.

Work setting

Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

Primary duties

Deliver practical support linked to pathway goals.
Help with housing education work and appointments.
Build budgeting tenancy and daily-living skills.
Maintain purposeful contact and accurate records.

Tools and training to confirm

Care record systems.
Rostering systems.
Medication records where authorised.
Moving and handling equipment where trained.

Governance focus

CQC context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the age range geography and support model. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the visit travel and out-of-hours arrangements. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the money contact and gift boundaries.

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Care Leaver Support Worker duties

Deliver practical support linked to pathway goals, deliver help with housing education work and appointments, and build budgeting tenancy and daily-living skills.

Deliver practical support linked to pathway goals. Help with housing education work and appointments. Build budgeting tenancy and daily-living skills. Maintain purposeful contact and accurate records. Report exploitation safeguarding and accommodation risks.

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What is added to the finished contract

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the age range geography and support model.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the visit travel and out-of-hours arrangements.

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