Jobs at Nottingham City Council

Manage daily crematorium operations, ensuring respectful, legally compliant cremation and funeral services. Lead frontline staff, supervise contractors, maintain customer-care standards, and uphold environmental, health, and safety requirements through audits, inductions, and risk assessments. The role also supports commercial growth, service innovation, partnership development, and performance reporting across Bereavement Services.

Support the administration of business-critical HR, payroll, finance, and corporate systems. Maintain accurate data, assist users, resolve system queries, contribute to service improvements, and provide timely administrative support. The role requires customer-focused communication, attention to detail, Microsoft Office proficiency, teamwork, and willingness to learn systems administration processes and technologies.

Provides administrative and support functions for children without school places, fair access panels, and school exclusions. Maintains monitoring data on admissions, exclusions, and transfers, while supporting statutory local-authority processes. The role requires strong IT skills, independent working, effective communication, deadline management, and knowledge of relevant legislation, Codes of Practice, and challenges faced by families and schools supporting hard-to-place pupils.

The Education Effectiveness Partner works with schools, academies, colleges, and educational settings to implement school improvement strategies and national and local education initiatives. The role focuses on inclusion, alternative provision, SEN, quality assurance, and improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people. Responsibilities include building partnerships, evaluating whole-school practice, managing strategic programmes and projects, developing initiatives, and ensuring compliance with education legislation and statutory duties.

Leads delivery of Early Years SEND guidance across childcare settings and schools. Coordinates staff, provides specialist advice, promotes early identification and inclusive provision, and supports children with additional needs. Works with families, educators, health and social care partners, contributes to safeguarding and service improvement, evaluates teaching and learning, and delivers workforce development. Requires countywide travel, strong knowledge of SEND and EYFS guidance, and a relevant Level 6 early years qualification.

Performs practical outdoor grounds maintenance across Nottingham’s parks, housing estates, communal areas, and public spaces. Duties include grass cutting, strimming, hedge cutting, pruning, weeding, litter picking, leaf clearance, and general site upkeep. Uses hand tools, powered equipment, vehicles, and grounds maintenance machinery while following health and safety, manual handling, and environmental procedures. Works outdoors in all weather, supports clean and welcoming public spaces, and collaborates with colleagues and residents.

Performs outdoor grounds maintenance across Nottingham, including grass cutting, strimming, hedge cutting, pruning, weeding, litter picking, leaf clearance, and upkeep of parks, communal areas, and public spaces. Operates hand tools, powered equipment, and grounds machinery while following health and safety procedures. Requires practical outdoor work experience, physical fitness, reliability, teamwork, and the ability to work independently in all weather conditions.

Leicestershire County Council seeks experienced Trading Standards Officers to conduct complex enforcement and criminal investigations involving rogue traders, doorstep crime, fraud, and food standards. The role requires interpreting and applying legislation, preparing reports, managing workloads, advising stakeholders, collaborating with external partners, supervising staff, and deputising for senior officers. Candidates will receive training and support to develop specialist expertise.

Leads specialist teaching provision for autistic children and young people and those with communication and interaction needs. The role involves service development, staff supervision, training, consultation, specialist assessment, Education Health and Care Needs Assessments, annual reviews, multi-agency collaboration, and supporting schools to develop inclusive practice. The postholder will deputise for the Team Manager, contribute to strategic partnerships and quality assurance, and travel to educational settings across Leicestershire.

Supports information assurance and IT policy projects, advises the organisation on information governance, compliance, technology, and online issues, coordinates assurance services, and leads investigations into information security and compliance incidents. The role also promotes continuous improvement, collaborates with internal and external partners, and contributes to a unified information and technology strategy.

Supports information assurance, IT policy, compliance, and information governance across the council. The role provides organisational advice, coordinates compliance services, leads investigations into information security incidents, and drives continuous improvement. It requires collaboration with internal teams and external partners, professional challenge of decision-makers, strategic planning, and adaptability to changing organisational needs.

Leads the design, analysis, assessment, maintenance, and strengthening of highway structures. Provides strategic and technical advice, manages structural maintenance budgets, oversees project delivery and technical approvals, prepares briefs and contract documents, and supervises team members. The role requires managing significant engineering projects, ensuring compliance with Eurocodes and DMRB, working with NEC contracts, presenting to stakeholders, and supporting asset management activities across Leicestershire.

Supports communication, research, engagement and co-production across Education Services and SEND. Works with children, young people, families, schools and partners to gather insights, improve accessible information, support the SEND Local Offer and contribute to evidence-based service improvement. The role requires strong partnership-building, analytical, organisational and communication skills, alongside knowledge of SEND statutory responsibilities and experience engaging children and families with SEND.

Provides administrative and coordination support to an Integration Team. Responsibilities include servicing boards and meetings, coordinating programme reporting and assurance activities, preparing statutory returns, maintaining information systems, analyzing project data, identifying risks, supporting corrective actions, monitoring financial records, and producing management information. The role also supports quality assurance, risk management, benefits realization, change management, and governance activities within a public-sector transformation programme.

The Locality SEND Navigator will act as a first point of contact for families, schools, and professionals supporting children and young people with SEND. Responsibilities include coordinating education, health, social care, and community partners; providing advice and guidance; promoting early intervention and inclusion; supporting mainstream settings; managing priorities; interpreting data; and contributing to service improvement and locality planning.

Leads implementation of the Early Years SEND Code of Practice across childcare settings. Manages SEND Inclusion and Experts at Hand Advisors, supports providers and families, coordinates multi-agency work, provides safeguarding and inclusion guidance, reduces exclusions, and oversees statutory responsibilities. The role involves evaluating practice, improving provision, delivering advice and training, and travelling to various locations.

Supports early years settings, schools, families, and professionals to promote inclusion, development, welfare, and education for developmentally young children with additional needs. Responsibilities include modelling effective strategies, advising on curriculum and special educational needs, observing provision, providing feedback, maintaining records, signposting support services, and building collaborative relationships. The role requires travel to various venues, participation in training and meetings, and an enhanced barred-list DBS check.

Provide specialist advice, guidance, and support to parents, childcare providers, and early years settings supporting children aged 0–5 with SEND. Promote inclusive, high-quality provision by embedding EYFS and SEND Code of Practice principles, safeguarding requirements, and effective strategies, particularly for SEMH needs. Work collaboratively with families, schools, local authority services, health, social care, and other professionals to improve outcomes.

Coordinates planning obligations and developer contributions from request through monitoring, payment, reporting, and enforcement. Reviews and cleanses planning and development management data, improves data standards and reporting, maintains monitoring systems, supports negotiations, and tracks outstanding infrastructure funding obligations. The role also provides advice, prepares reports, and collaborates with developers, local authorities, internal services, and other partners to improve planning obligations processes and data quality.

Manage the finances and benefits of vulnerable adults who lack capacity, acting as a corporate appointee or deputy. Responsibilities include paying bills, handling property transactions, negotiating with providers and authorities, preparing financial reports for the Office of the Public Guardian, maintaining accurate records, and managing client correspondence and caseloads.