Tfst Specialist

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 18.5 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

**Salary**: Starting Salary is £41,496 -£44,539 ‘pro rata for part-time’

Location: St. Ann’s Valley

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
An opportunity has arisen within Nottingham City Council for the position of Family Support Practice Specialist (one part time post/18.5 hrs) within the Targeted Family Support Team 3 based at St Ann’s Valley Centre and Clifton Cornerstone. The role is Grade I and is worked on a hybrid contract. The team covers the south areas of Nottingham City to include St Ann’s, Mapperley, Dales, Clifton, Meadows and Lenton/Wollaton East.

The applicant will lead on the delivery of high-quality services and provide reflective case supervision and expertise to colleagues in order to develop excellent evidence based practice. They will support and advise on the team’s case work and work innovatively and collaboratively with other locally based services to reduce the level of need and risk to enable them to be met within universal settings. The applicant will complete some case supervision of Family Support Workers to ensure high standards of practice in safeguarding, management of risk, and the use of effective interventions to support families with complex and extensive needs. This will be as required and for family support workers who may need additional support, have complex cases or to support the team manager.

The applicant will coach, mentor and lead other team members in their specialist areas of experience in a range of complex needs and build confidence in integrated case management, providing case oversight through effective supervision, assuring quality and safety of day to day work, and ensuring that work is completed to a high standard and within relevant timescales. The applicant will be expected to use research to advise and share knowledge with colleagues and management about national drivers, new developments in specialist knowledge and learning about best practice in relation to the team’s specialist areas. The applicant will ensure high standards of intervention, safeguarding and risk management in work with children, young people and families with a diverse range of needs. They will support the Targeted Family Support Manager to promote a culture of continual improvement in the quality, diversity and performance management of services.

**About You
- 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.

Closing Date: 1st December 2023

Interviews will be held: 18/12/23.

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