Jobs at Nottingham City Council

Lead Willow Brook Primary School into its next chapter by preserving and developing its creative curriculum, inspiring staff, building strong relationships with families and the community, and shaping the school’s future with warmth, integrity, and high expectations.

Processes school attendance referrals and prepares legal intervention documents, including penalty notices, improvement notices, and prosecutions. Provides administrative support and guidance to parents, schools, and agencies; maintains accurate confidential records; follows attendance procedures and court standards; and handles sensitive telephone enquiries professionally. The role requires strong organisation, communication, prioritisation, and attention to detail when supporting attendance enforcement services.

Provide financial management support to maintained schools and academies, including budgeting, forecasting, statutory returns, financial reporting, compliance, and use of financial systems. Advise school leaders, business managers, and governors, while promoting best practice and developing the traded service through customer growth, sales, and revenue opportunities. The role also requires strong analysis, communication, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving skills.

Develop and implement transport policies, strategies, and plans for Leicestershire County Council. Analyze complex transport data and technical reports, gather evidence, provide strategic advice, engage internal and external stakeholders, and write reports for Members and senior management. Support transport studies and wider economic, land use, social, and environmental objectives, including project management, budget monitoring, and policy development with partners such as National Highways and Midlands Connect.

Provide flexible operational support across Nottingham markets and fairs, including setting up and dismantling stalls, moving equipment, assisting traders, conducting site inspections, maintaining cleanliness, and supporting safe, welcoming sites. The role requires variable shifts, outdoor work in all weather, manual handling, travel between locations, customer and trader interaction, teamwork, independent working, basic recordkeeping, and adherence to health and safety procedures.

Supervise and lead highway maintenance operatives, ensuring cost-effective delivery to agreed standards. Support the Works Manager with recruitment, induction, training, attendance, performance, and disciplinary processes. Plan and prioritise work, manage depot operations and budgets, solve problems, analyse information, and apply health and safety requirements. The role may require work outside normal hours and at different locations.

Supports Educational Psychologists in delivering supervised services to schools, children, families, and partner agencies. Responsibilities include training delivery, project planning, data analysis, report preparation, written feedback, inclusive practice support, safeguarding and SEND compliance, professional development, and partnership working across Leicestershire. The role requires travel across the county, access to a vehicle, and an enhanced DBS check with barred list clearance.

Maintain and secure County Council premises by locking and unlocking buildings, completing minor repairs, health and safety checks, room setups, contractor liaison, cleaning and caretaking duties. The role includes emergency response, evacuation assistance, heavy lifting, workload prioritization, site coverage, occasional Saturday work, and deputizing for the Premises and Logistics team leader. An enhanced DBS check and random drug and alcohol testing apply.

Provides administrative and reception support at an adult learning centre. Responsibilities include assisting teams and managers, handling correspondence and enquiries, maintaining records and databases, processing documents, invoices, payments and learner enrolments, administering exams, handling cash, and delivering customer service. The role requires confidentiality, accurate data entry, teamwork, task prioritisation, evening and occasional Saturday availability, and an enhanced DBS check.

Coordinates learning and development for Approved Mental Health Practitioners, delivering CPD training and supporting social workers pursuing AMHP qualifications. Works with AMHP, Adult Social Care, and Learning & Development teams to address strategic and operational needs. The role involves coaching, supporting staff, managing difficult conversations, collaborating with partner agencies, and contributing to academic social work programs.

Delivers training, competency assessments, and development support for frontline Resident Services staff. Designs, delivers, and evaluates training activities; identifies training needs; promotes safe and effective working practices; builds relationships with SHEQ, safety, operational, and development teams; and uses Microsoft Office and database systems to support training administration.

Provides professional leadership for SHEQ workforce training, competence, compliance, and assurance across operational services. The role oversees training governance, competence frameworks, audits, inspections, ISO management systems, corrective actions, compliance reporting, and performance improvement. It advises and challenges operational managers, ensures alignment with statutory requirements and operational risks, and line manages SHEQ and training staff.

Assess planning applications, provide pre-application advice, conduct site visits, prepare reports, and make well-reasoned recommendations on sustainable development. The role involves managing a varied caseload, interpreting technical information, meeting deadlines, and communicating planning matters to applicants, agents, councillors, and local communities. Planning Officers will support development management and contribute to regeneration, heritage, infrastructure, residential growth, and neighborhood improvement projects across Nottingham.

Support children, young people, parents, and carers with special educational needs and disabilities by providing impartial advice on statutory rights, SEND legislation, EHCP processes, mediation, and tribunal procedures. The role involves advocacy, negotiation, professional challenge, case recording, report writing, and collaboration with schools, local authorities, and partner agencies while promoting safeguarding, inclusion, and family-centered outcomes.

Provides administrative, clerical, reception, message-taking, records-management, and front-of-house support across Family Hubs. The role involves using Microsoft Office, working with professionals, communicating with parents, young people, and children, supporting accessible services, and travelling to locations throughout Leicestershire. An enhanced barred-list DBS check is required.

Assesses eligibility for home-to-school transport using council policies, processes applications and enquiries, gathers information, communicates decisions, and supports transport appeals. The role requires accurate administrative work, handling sensitive or difficult conversations, coordinating with schools and council services, maintaining records using ICT systems, prioritizing competing workloads, and contributing to efficient business processes. It serves mainstream students and individuals with special educational needs and disabilities.

Design, assess, inspect, maintain, and strengthen highway structures. Prepare technical briefs, estimates, contract documentation, and construction supervision plans; assess and award contracts; and ensure works comply with designs, health and safety legislation, Eurocodes, DMRB, NEC contracts, and CDM Regulations. The role also involves checking inspections, prioritizing maintenance, reporting, stakeholder communication, and occasional work outside normal hours or at different locations.

Manage a varied caseload of complaints, Freedom of Information requests, and Environmental Information Regulation requests. Coordinate responses, interpret legislation and statutory guidance, advise stakeholders on complaint routes and information exemptions, and support statutory compliance. The role requires independent case management, analytical investigation, accurate record keeping, effective communication, and relationship-building across council services to achieve timely, evidence-based outcomes.

Lead the development and delivery of energy, climate change, sustainability, and carbon-neutral policies for Nottingham City Council and the city. Develop ambitious but achievable strategies, coordinate stakeholders, identify funding opportunities, prepare funding bids, and provide technical and project support to deliver carbon reduction, air quality, energy, fuel-poverty, and waste initiatives.

Develop music teaching and leadership skills while delivering instrumental and vocal education to young people in schools. The role includes observing and peer teaching alongside experienced educators, progressing to whole-class teaching, learning classroom management techniques, accessing Music Hub training, and completing the Level 4 Certificate in Music Education. The successful candidate must support safeguarding, use appropriate KS2 repertoire, travel between sites, and contribute to inclusive, high-quality music education across Leicester and Leicestershire.