IRO Manager

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Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £56,730- £60,125 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Location: Loxley House, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

About Us: Nottingham City Council is dedicated to putting our citizens first through the delivery of best value services. We are committed to ensuring that children's services are delivered to the highest standards of quality and effectiveness.

Job Purpose: We are seeking a passionate and experienced IRO Service Manager to lead our Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) functions. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in promoting the welfare of children and young people, ensuring their voices are heard and considered in statutory reviews and children's plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the IRO functions in line with relevant legal frameworks, statutory guidance, and best practice principles.
• Provide support and challenge to Children's Social Care to continuously improve performance and quality in practice.
• Promote and facilitate the active involvement of children, young people, and families in statutory reviews and children's plans.
• Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of services, driving high service standards and achieving outcomes in line with performance indicators.
• Provide analysis related to service area activity to inform wider planning and commissioning agendas.
• Support strategic service development work as directed by the Head of Service.

Service Leadership Expectations: As a service leader, you will be expected to demonstrate our core behaviours, built around four central themes:

• Leading People: Build high-performing teams, empower and motivate others, and be a role model for the organisation and its values.
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion: Create a culture of respect and inclusivity in the services we provide and within our workforce.
• Change & Innovation: Drive change and a culture of continuous improvement, exploring new and innovative ways to design and deliver our services.
• Collaboration: Work across boundaries, build relationships, and create joined-up services to deliver the best outcomes for the people of our city.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment.
• The chance to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people.

You can find the job description for this post here

For informal enquiries, please contact Sarah Wright by email at sarah.wright@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Closing Date: 22nd September 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: w/c 29th September 2025

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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.