Job Description
Contract Type:
Casual
Working Hours:
Casual
Worker Type:
Mobile
Salary:
£24,413 - £25,185 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
£150 per Panel
Location:
Home-based/Loxley House, Nottingham, NG2 3NG
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
This role involves joining the Central List of panel members and committing to the panel rota throughout the year. The fostering panel makes recommendations on cases presented to panel which includes mainstream foster carer approvals, kinship care assessments, foster carer reviews and reviews following concerns. The panel has an important function in the quality assurance of reports and ensuring a degree of independent scrutiny over cases presented and reporting back to the agency.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
Experience And Qualifications
* Experience, either professionally or personally or both, of the placement of children in fostering or adoptive families or of children being cared for away from their birth family.
* A Social Work qualification will be necessary for certain Panel Members.
Knowledge
* An appreciation of the effect of separation and loss on children.
* Awareness of the richness of different kinds of families and their potential for meeting children's needs.
* Some understanding of the purpose and function of the Panel and of the agency which the Panel is serving, or a willingness to learn.
Abilities
* Good listening and communication skills.
* The ability to read, process and analyse large amounts of complex and sometimes distressing information.
* The ability to make an assessment and to form a view, based on the written and verbal information presented to Panel, and the confidence to articulate this at Panel.
* The ability to use personal and/or professional knowledge and experience to contribute to discussions and decision-making in a balanced and informed manner.
* The ability to work co-operatively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Attitudes
* A commitment to keeping children within their own family or community where this is possible and to maintaining contact between children living in foster families and their birth families where this appears to be in the child's best interests.
* A commitment to fostering as a way of meeting a child's needs where this appears to be in the child's best interests.
* A commitment to safeguarding and promoting children's welfare in mainstream and kinship foster care.
* A valuing of diversity in relation to issues of ethnicity, religion, gender, disability and sexuality.
* An understanding of, and a commitment to, the need for confidentiality.
* A willingness to increase knowledge and understanding of issues through reading, discussion and training.
* A willingness to contribute constructively to the annual review of their Panel membership & as required, to that of other Panel Members and the Chair.
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 Donna Cole, Panel Advisor, by email at
Closing Date:
13th October 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 27th October 2025.
If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre:
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.