Principal Manager

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Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent,

Working Hours: 18.5 hours with an option of 18.5 hours on fixed term contract for up to 18 months (37 hours in total).

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £49,764 rising to £52,805 'pro rata for part-time'

Location: Loxley House, Station Street Nottingham NG2 3NG

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

The Principal Manager will be managing recruitment of foster carers they will manage all the assessments for new carers as well as the Fostering support team. the manager will work closely with Foster For East Midlands the D2N2 recruitment hub to increase applications.. The manager will need to have oversight of all recruitment activity and ensure we are progressing events and applications in a timely manner. The role will also entail some supervision and managing supervising social workers.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Social Work qualification and registered with social work England

• Experience of fostering regulations and national minimum standards

• knowledge of recruitment and marketing activity

• Demonstrate good effective leadership and motivational skills, ensuring good communication within the service, and promote a culture of continuous improvement and service user focus that delivers good outcomes for children.

Detailed knowledge of National Standards and Fostering Regulations 2011 and the Children's Act 2002

Develop and implement Quality Assurance Systems in order to quality assure the standard of assessments for Fostering Panels.

- This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role.

- 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 Audrey Taylor, Service Manager, by email at audrey.taylor@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Closing Date: Friday 14th February 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: Tuesday 25th February 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 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.