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City Wide Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people? Are you resilient, motivated and committed to making a difference to our citizens? If you are enthusiastic, energetic and looking for a challenging and rewarding role in a diverse and vibrant city, then why not join our supportive team at Nottingham City Council. You will be part of a friendly, hard working team, committed to ensuring that children get the best chances in life. You will benefit from supportive and proactive management and a genuine commitment to you and your career development. You will also have access to a full package of benefits and rewards including an award winning employee benefits scheme offering an incredible range of discounts to help your salary go further, family friendly policies, local government pension scheme, employee assistance programme, generous annual leave entitlement, colleague support networks, our Going the Extra Mile recognition scheme and much more. See our Colleague Total Rewards brochure here for details of the full package [insert link to brochure] You will be a qualified professional (CQSW, DipSW, CSS) with HCPC registration, have completed your NQSW year and be experienced in working with children and families. Proven experience of court work, as well as undertaking in-depth assessments, preparing high quality reports and presenting them in a formal setting is required as is your ability to manage child protection cases. Possession of a full driving licence, access to a vehicle and willingness to travel both inside and outside the council area as required is needed .An enhanced DBS check will also be required. For informal enquiries only, please contact: Greg Brooks, Team Manager, 0115 8762360 Support and protect Nottingham’s Vulnerable Adults Independent Chair – Nottingham City Safeguarding Adults Board Nottingham City has a Vulnerable Adults Plan which sets out our intentions that: We are currently driving forward the "Making Safeguarding Personal" agenda in order to ensure people are able to stay safe from harm. To support the delivery of these ambitions Nottingham City is seeking to appoint a new Independent Chair for its well-established multi-agency Safeguarding Adults Board. This critical role requires someone to provide independent leadership and strategic vision to the safeguarding adults agenda across Nottingham City. The successful candidate will chair the Nottingham City Safeguarding Adults Board in a professional and impartial and manner while ensuring the Board has an independent objective and authoritative identity. The Independent Chair will demonstrate high level communication and negotiation skills with both professionals and the public to support the continuous improvement of the Board. The role calls for someone with extensive experience in chairing strategic partnerships, a successful record of work promoting outcomes for vulnerable adults, along with the required passion and knowledge that this important role requires. The Chair will also act as the ‘public face’ of adult safeguarding within Nottingham City, responding to media enquiries where required. The appointment will be on a consultancy/self employed basis and it is estimated that 30 working days per annum will be required to meet each of the Board’s requirements. The day rate for this role is £450. For an informal discussion please contact: Alison Michalska, Corporate Director for Children and Adults on 0115 8763332 Or Helen Blackman, Director of Children’s Social Care on 0115 876 4710 How To Apply: To apply for this role please submit a Curriculum Vitae, including an expression of interest covering letter that addresses skills, past experience and how you would deliver the post with reference to the person specification to Alison Michalska via: alison.michalska@nottinghamcity.gov.uk Closing Date: 29th May 2015, 12 noon. Support and protect Nottingham’s children and young people Independent Chair –Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Board Our amazing children and young people make Nottingham a youthful, energetic and exciting City in which to live, work and play. But we also have pockets of deprivation and disadvantage meaning we need to deliver good and outstanding services which secure the best outcomes for our children. Nottingham City is seeking to appoint a new Independent Chair for its well established multi-agency Safeguarding Children Adults Board. These critical roles require independence, effective leadership, the ability to critically challenge and oversee the continuation and development of multi-agency practice to safeguard children. The successful candidates will be able to evidence effective vision and leadership at a strategic level and demonstrate high level communication and negotiation skills both with professionals and the public to support the continuous improvement of the Board. You will need to have extensive experience in chairing strategic partnerships, a successful record of work promoting outcomes for children, the required passion and knowledge which this important role requires. The appointment will be on a consultancy/self employed basis and it is estimated that 30 working days per annum will be required to meet each of the Board’s requirements. The day rate for this role is £450. For an informal discussion please contact: Alison Michalska, Corporate Director for Children and Adults on 0115 8763332 Or Helen Blackman, Director of Children’s Social Care on 0115 876 4710 How To Apply: To apply for this role please submit a Curriculum Vitae, including an expression of interest covering letter that addresses skills, past experience and how you would deliver the post with reference to the person specification to Alison Michalska via: alison.michalska@nottinghamcity.gov.uk Closing Date: 29th May 2015, 12 noon.
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