Adolescence Family Help Worker

Nottingham City Council; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham City Council is seeking innovative individuals for a role focused on providing support to adolescents and families. The position involves conducting assessments, building relationships, and applying safeguarding knowledge. This hybrid role offers competitive pay and benefits, including a generous pension scheme and annual leave.

Benefits

26 days annual leave

Access to a generous pension scheme

Health and wellbeing benefits

Discounted membership at local sports and fitness centres

Qualifications

• Ability to conduct assessments and formulate action plans.
• Experience using preventative and early intervention theories.
• Sound knowledge of safeguarding issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide targeted support and interventions for adolescents and families.
• Address unique developmental needs and challenges.
• Prevent escalation of need and admission into care.

Skills

Assessment

Building Relationships

Solution-focused Approach

Safeguarding Knowledge

Job description

Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent - There are numerous posts available.

Working Hours: 9am - 5pm (Monday to Friday) and a requirement to working evenings and weekends and some public holidays as per a rota, over 7 days, to provide a flexible and responsive service, including on-call arrangements.

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting salary £31,586 (Level One) rising to £32,115 (Level Two) on the first year anniversary, subject to satisfactory completion of a probation period(pro rata for part time)

Location: Citywide

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 .

*We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applicants. Early application is encouraged.

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.

About The Role

You will be providing targeted support and interventions for adolescents and their families, addressing their unique developmental needs and challenges, fostering positive family relationships, with a key focus on family networks and working to prevent escalation of need and the admission of children into the care of the Local Authority or further along the Criminal Justice System.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Ability to conduct assessments and analyse findings to formulate action plans, and the ability to produce high quality written records and reports. This includes doing so with adolescence within the Criminal Justice System.
• Experience of effectively using a range of preventative and early intervention theories and models when working with children, young people & families to prevent the need for escalation to specialist services, including Youth Justice.
• Ability to build good working relationships with families and over-come barriers to them engaging.
• Ability to demonstrate a solution-focused approach that will give confidence to children, young people and their families.
• Sound knowledge of safeguarding issues and experience of applying legislation and policy and procedure to practice, including the relevant assessment framework and integrated working. This includes legislation around Youth Justice.
• 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 James Roberts, Adolescence Team Manager, by telephone on 07939986740 or by email at [e-mail]

Closing Date: 23rd May 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: Week commencing 2nd June 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.