Job Description
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours, which can include evenings and weekends
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £44,711 (Level one) rising to £47,754 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Location: City Wide)
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 excellent benefits. In addition to competitive pay, generous 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 .
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 firm resolve, we are committed to creating an aspirational environment where every child and young person in Nottingham can achieve, learn, and be safe in their family environment.
Nottingham Children’s Services is at a critical point in its transformation journey. We are transforming our approach to delivering early help, taking on board learning from recent inspections and the national Care Review. We are focused on embedding continuous improvement across our services.
About The Role
The Adolescence Supervisor position will support the planning, coordination and delivery of early help support services for vulnerable children, young people and families with a range of complex problems, including social, emotional and behavioural and children subject to Child Protection, Child in Need, Youth Justice and TAF Plans. They will be responsible for the direct work and case supervision of adolescence family help workers and adolescent youth development workers to ensure high standards of practice in safeguarding, management of risk, and the use of effective interventions and parenting programmes to support children, young people and families. They will lead the delivery of high-quality services and provide reflective case supervision and expertise to colleagues to develop excellent evidence-based practice; they will support and advise on the team’s case work and work innovatively and collaboratively with partner services to reduce the level of need and risk to enable them to be met within universal settings.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- Dip SW/CQSW or equivalent level degree in a relevant children's service (e.g., education, health, youth work, youth justice),
- Substantial experience as a supervisor or manager (a number of years in a supervisor role or equivalent) in a relevant children's service and knowledge and experience of current legislation, issues and good practice in respect of children, young people and families
- At least two years’ experience of delivering effective evidence-based interventions that support children and families who have complex, extensive and challenging needs
- Experience in developing and motivating others to ensure continual improvement in performance and practice
- Experience in delivering high-quality family support provision and adjusting services to respond to the needs of users
- Significant experience in implementing best practices in case supervision and achieving improvement in performance
- Strong understanding and practical experience of the case management process (including assessment, analysis, planning, intervention and review) and how it promotes good outcomes for children and families
- Sound knowledge and understanding of legislation, policies and practice guidance relating to children and families and their application to practice
- Extensive knowledge of child development from early years to adolescence and how this affects levels of need, and the support required
- Sophisticated understanding and demonstrable experience of all aspects of safeguarding and management of risk to children and young people as they relate to the work of the team outlined in the Job Purpose
- Sophisticated understanding of diversity issues and how they impact on delivery of effective services affects a diverse range of service users, partners, stakeholders and colleagues
- Significant experience in handling conflict and managing sensitive issues to achieve positive outcomes
- 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 Sonia Burton, Interim Service Manager for Nottingham Youth Offending Team, by email at
[email protected]Closing Date: 1st August 2025
Please note that the closing date will need to be reviewed by recruiting managers on the morning of 1st August Depending on the volume of applicants, the closing date can be brought forward from the 14th August deadline
Interviews will be held: Week commencing 14th August 2025
If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support
By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.
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.
