MHST Team Manager - MIAT

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Job Description

Contract Type: Fixed Term until October 2025

Working Hours: 37hrs

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £48,474 (Level one) rising to £51,515 (Level 4) per annum (pro rata for part time)

Location: Southglade Childrens Access Centre, Southglade Road, Nottingham, NG5 5GU

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

As part of the local authorities response, the Mental Health Support Improving Attendance Team - MIAT Manager will work alongside the MHST Management Team, and be responsible in managing the MIAT Specialist. The MIAT & MHST managers and Specialist will play a crucial role in supporting schools within Nottingham City by providing intensive support, training, and coaching aimed at improving attendance and reducing persistent and severe absence rates. This role involves assisting school leaders in developing and maintaining a positive attendance culture, identifying early signs of attendance issues, and supporting and challenging pupils and their parents to unlock their academic and social potential. The manager will oversee (alongside MHST Managers) bespoke interventions developed by the specialist and MHST/MIAT team to address environmental barriers affecting attendance, incorporating low-intensity CBT-informed approaches for mental health concerns. Additionally, the manager will collaborate with school attendance teams, leaders, and officers to enhance attendance levels, maintain effective communication with stakeholders, and ensure compliance with statutory and Trust frameworks through a solution-focused approach. The role also requires ensuring the team are proactive in early intervention, engagement with families, and flexibility to travel across various schools and education providers as needed.

The post holder will promote high standards of practice in safeguarding, management of mental health risk, and effective therapeutic interventions through a robust performance management framework within a multi-disciplinary team.

The post-holder will work innovatively and support the embedding of a whole school approach to mental health within the educational settings that the MHST are based in.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Extensive experience of working in a Senior Leadership Team (preferably within educational establishments)
• Skills in leading, team guidance, inclusivity, relationship building, cultural competence and diversity in management
• Planning, executing a project/service and managing resources
• Collaboration internal and externally. Understanding school systems, creating inclusive support
• Knowledge of Safeguarding policies and practice. Policies related to attendance, inclusion and special educational needs
• Performance management, supervision, problem solving, prioritization and informed decision making skills

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

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 Natasha McDonald, MHST Team Manager, by email at natasha.mcdonald@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.

Closing Date: 4th November 2024

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: TBC

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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 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.