Team Manager - Contracts, Quality & Improvement

Nottingham City Council; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority is seeking a passionate and strategic leader to join their Contracts and Quality Improvement team. You will shape the quality of services for vulnerable children in Nottingham, ensuring safety and effectiveness. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in children's social care within a legislative framework and strong negotiation skills. This role offers a competitive salary and hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Great leave entitlement

Access to a generous pension scheme

Innovative, inclusive work culture

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience within the legislative framework for children's social care.
• Experience of establishing and maintaining strong partnerships.
• A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead on building and maintaining strong relationships with service providers.
• Ensure commissioned services are safe and effective.
• Negotiate value-for-money packages that reflect individual care needs.

Skills

Contract management

Negotiation

Quality improvement

Analytical thinking

Relationship building

Job description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is Grade J £51,356 (Level one) rising to £54,495 (Level 4)

Location: Loxley House

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 You

Are you committed to making a real difference in the lives of children and young people? We’re seeking a passionate and strategic leader — ideally with senior-level experience in a children in care provider — to join our Contracts and Quality Improvement team, where your work will directly influence the quality and impact of services delivered to vulnerable children across Nottingham. Your insight into the realities of delivering residential care, fostering, or supported accommodation will help shape a provider market that is safe, effective, and truly centred on the needs and voices of children and families.

This role is central to shaping a responsive and high-performing external provider market. You’ll lead on building and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships with service providers, ensuring that commissioned services are safe, effective, and truly centred around the needs and voices of children and families. Your negotiation skills will be key in securing tailored, value-for-money packages that reflect individual care needs and aspirations.

If you’re driven by improving outcomes for children, confident in navigating complex provider landscapes, and skilled in fostering partnerships that deliver lasting change, we’d love to hear from you.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Knowledge and experience of working within the legislative framework for children's social care.
• Experience and knowledge of contract management, quality improvement, market management, negotiation and provider performance.
• Experience of establishing and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and working relationships
• Ability to think with a "can do" attitude, inspiring change, thinking analytically and solution focussed mindset
  
• 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 Claire Wells - Service Manager on [e-mail]

Closing Date: 29th September 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: To be confirmed

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