United Kingdom onlyContract Type: Fixed Term for 1 year
Working Hours: 18.5 per week
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £33,945 for Level one rising to £36,648 per annum (pro rata for part-time) for Level four
Location: Working from Home and 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 the Role
The role of the Virtual School is to raise educational aspirations and narrow attainment and progress gaps to improve educational outcomes for our children and young people in care. This post will help to support the educational achievement of children in care, specifically previously looked after children.
The purpose of the post is to:
- Contribute to raising the educational achievement and progress of Nottingham City’s children in care, the post holder will have specific responsibility for previously looked-after children that live within the Nottingham City area.
The ideal candidate will have:
- At minimum, a level 3 qualification in an area related to working with children and young people.
- Familiarity with the range of interventions and practices that contribute to raising the educational achievement of looked after children and previously looked-after children.
- Skills in negotiating successfully with education providers, social care and other professionals on issues relating to the education of looked after children and previously looked-after children.
- Ability and skill to challenge, advice and support education staff, social care and carers in a professional and positive way to promote the educational achievement of looked after children and previously looked-after children.
- Experience of working in a school or other educational setting
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 Jasmin Howell, Head of Virtual School, by telephone on 07534912208 or by email at [email protected]
Closing Date: 24th May 2024
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 Date: TBC
If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home
By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.
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 the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) 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.
