Working Hours: 9am - 5pm (Monday to Friday) and a requirement to working evenings and weekends and some public holidays as per a rota, over 7 days, to provide a flexible and responsive service, including on-call arrangements.
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting salary £31,586 (Level One) rising to £34,314 (Level Four) on the first year anniversary, subject to satisfactory completion of a probation period per annum (pro rata for part time)
Location: Citywide
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
About the Role
You will be a key worker and Lead Professional for children, young people and families with a range of needs. You will facilitate Early Help Assessments and plans, deliver appropriate interventions as well as coordinating interventions delivered by other agencies, while supporting children subject to Team around the Family, Child Protection, Child in Need, and Youth Justice Plans. You will support and offer professional challenge to agencies and families to bring about lasting change, to increase the resilience of the family and decrease dependencies on public services. Focus will be on delivering quality personal and social development interventions for children and families and support young people 0-19, to move successfully through education into adulthood through targeted interventions.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
* Ability to conduct assessments and analyse findings to formulate action plans, and the ability to produce high quality written records and reports.
* Experience of effectively using a range of preventative and early intervention theories and models when working with children, young people & families to prevent the need for escalation to specialist services.
* Ability to build good working relationships with families and over-come barriers to them engaging.
* Ability to demonstrate a solution-focused approach that will give confidence to children, young people and their families.
* Sound knowledge of safeguarding issues and experience of applying legislation and policy and procedure to practice, including the relevant assessment framework and integrated working.
- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
- The role requires you to participate in the on call rota.
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: Week commencing 7th April 2025.
If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
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