Head of Family Help and Partnership Services

Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

Contract Type: Permanent

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Working hours: Full time 37 hours per week

Salary: Starting Salary is £70,656 (Level one) rising to £79,167 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

An Opportunity to Shape the Future of Family Help Services in Nottingham

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 are now looking for a visionary, passionate, innovative, resilient, and self-motivated service leader who can drive forward our commitment to providing strong, effective early help services. The successful candidate will lead the transformation of Family Help Services, ensuring that children and families receive support at the earliest possible opportunity to achieve the best outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Head of Service for Adolescence and Youth Justice, lead the Family Help provision across Nottingham City, ensuring effective collaboration with key partners to deliver early and accessible support to children and families within local communities.
• Provide strategic leadership and translate this into clear goals and objectives, ensuring alignment with our vision to provide the best outcomes for children, young people and families in Nottingham.
• Work collaboratively with staff, partners, and stakeholders to continue our transformation journey, ensuring that the voices of children influence every part of our service design and delivery.
• Develop and lead the ongoing transformation of Family Help services in response to the learning from inspections, national directives and evolving best practices in early help.
• Manage and allocate resources effectively, ensuring services meet statutory requirements, national performance standards, and deliver value for money within a challenging financial context.
• Lead large teams, managing resources and budgets to deliver services that align with strategic plans and ensure continuous improvement.
• Champion diversity and inclusion, ensuring that our services are inclusive and reflective of the diverse needs of our citizens.
• Drive a culture of collaboration across Nottingham’s City Services and partners, ensuring that services are integrated, and the outcomes for children and young people are improved.

Key Requirements

To succeed in this critical role, you will need to have proven experience in delivering transformational change within a similar services. You will have a strong track record of leading service delivery in complex, public-sector environments, with the ability to drive performance, manage change, and deliver improved outcomes for children and families.

As a leader, you will possess the ability to inspire, motivate, and manage large teams, driving continuous improvement and fostering high performance across all service areas. You will be a forward-thinking, innovative leader, able to take a proactive role in transforming services and pushing forward an ambitious vision for Nottingham’s children and young people.

You will have demonstrated experience of working collaboratively across a broad range of partners, with a clear focus on ensuring that the voices of children and young people influence every part of service design and delivery. Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across sectors will be key to your success.

You should also have experience of managing large budgets and staff teams, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to meet the needs of the service and the residents we serve. A strong ability to manage financial sustainability while delivering services within challenging budgets is essential.

Your background should also include a proven track record of successfully leading and managing change in a complex and evolving environment, especially within children’s services. You will have the skills to lead using effective quality assurance methods, driving continuous improvement in practice.

Experience in commissioning services will be highly beneficial, along with a strong understanding of how to work collaboratively to deliver high-quality services through strategic partnerships.

You will be a strong leader, ready to work collaboratively across a variety of stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our vision of improving outcomes for children and young people in Nottingham. You will be able to thrive in a fast-paced, changing political and financial context.

If you are committed to making a real difference in the lives of children and families, and you are passionate about leading change and transformation in services, we want to hear from you.

Apply today and lead the change in Family Help services across Nottingham City.

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.

For informal enquiries please contact Helen Pearson by email at [email protected]

Closing Date: 27th April 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: TBC