Adolescence Team Manager - Team 4

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Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent

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 £49,764 (Level One) rising to £52,805 (Level Four) on the first year anniversary, subject to satisfactory completion of a probation period (pro rata for part time)

Location: Citywide

*We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applicants. Early application is encouraged.

Thank you for your interest in joining Nottingham City Council. We have already launched an exciting period of transformation across the Council, aligned to our recent Improvement Plan.

We are committed to overcoming the challenges of recent years whilst setting an ambitious, forward-thinking course for the city's future.

With a clear vision and a strong resolve, we are committed to creating an aspirational environment where every child and young person in Nottingham has the opportunity to achieve, learn, and be safe in their family environment.

Nottingham Children's Services are at a critical point in our transformation journey. We are transforming our approach to delivering early help, we have taken on board learning from recent inspections and the national Care Review and are focused on embedding continuous improvement across our services.

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.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

Nottingham City Youth Justice Service are recruiting for a new Adolescence Team Manager. The post holder is responsible for service delivery within the Youth Justice Service, managing the assessment, planning, coordination and delivery of city-wide youth justice, early help and crime prevention services in relation to children, young people and their families.

You will take responsibility for the team's overall performance, driving service improvement and development to promote a culture of continual improvement in the quality, diversity, and performance management of services by setting SMART targets, ensuring safe practice, robust assessments, management of risk, safeguarding, and effective evidence-based interventions.

You will lead the delivery of high-quality services and provide reflective case supervision and expertise to colleagues to develop excellent evidence-based practice through a robust performance management and quality assurance framework within a multi-disciplinary team including seconded staff from partner agencies.
You will work innovatively and collaboratively with other partners from statutory and community provisions across the city to ensure high standards of public protection and safeguarding to reduce the level of risk and impact of youth offending on children, families and communities.

You will deputise for the Service manager as required and support the Service manager in service planning activities, reviewing the service to ensure effective service delivery, value for public money and potential efficiencies maximised.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Dip SW/CQSW, Dip PS or equivalent level degree in a relevant children service (e.g., education, health, youth work, youth justice)
• Substantial experience as a supervisor or manager experience in supervisor role or equivalent) in a relevant children service and knowledge and experience of current legislation, issues and good practice in respect of children, young people and families.
• Experience of implementing best practice in supervision and successfully dealing with poor performance in services and individuals.
• Experience of motivating and developing others to achieve continual improvement in service performance and delivery.
• Knowledge, understanding and skilled in key Youth Justice legislation, case management and delivery of interventions to high-risk, complex caseloads.
• Ability to work effectively with complex partnerships and develop relationships across statutory and third sector partners including to facilitate, influence and support the third sector to deliver high quality services.
• Sophisticated knowledge and understanding of legislation, policies and practice guidance relating to Youth Justice, Safeguarding and children and families and knowledge of diversity issues (including adverse childhood experiences, child development, trauma, neurodiversity, race and ethnicity and gender) and how they impact on delivery of effective services to a range of service users, partners, stakeholders and colleagues

- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

- The role requires you to participate in the on call rota.

You can find the job description for this post here

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Thomas Cullen, Adolescence Service Manager by telephone on 0115 9159400 or by email at Thomas.Cullen@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.

Closing Date: 1st June 2025

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 9th June 2025

If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support

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About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

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 Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) 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.