Working For NCT
Supported to do the best you can
If you join NCT, you will be given the tools, support and opportunity to do the best job of your life, every single day. You can expect:
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Excellent training and development focused on lifelong learning
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Clear strategic direction from a leadership team that is closely connected to the workforce
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To be treated with kindness and fully supported by managers
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Time to work directly with children and families (manageable caseloads)
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High-quality monthly supervision and plenty of scope for reflective discussions
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The opportunity to work creatively with other partners to find solutions for families
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The chance to have your voice heard and contribute directly to service improvements
If this sounds like the type of environment you'd thrive in, please either browse our jobs and apply for a role, or call our
recruitment partner, Sanctuary Personnel on 0151 511 6839 - they'll happily tell you more about our supportive team.
Excellent training and development
Our workforce is our most valuable asset, which is why your personal development is as important to us as it is to you.
We’re committed to lifelong learning and provide a broad selection of training and development opportunities that are delivered both face-to-face and online - to fit in with you.
Learning and Development and Social Work Academy
Our in-house Learning and Development Team and Social Work Academy both offer a wide range of learning opportunities and courses including:
Child development
Child exploitation
Court skills
Reflective supervision
Domestic abuse
Gun, gang and knife crime
Neglect and poverty
Managing and supervising
Understanding care leavers
Voice of the child
Writing to the child
Chronologies, genograms and ecomaps
Child sexual abuse
Cultural competence
Signs of safety
Signs of Safety is NCT’s core practice model.
It helps us to make sure that children, young people and families are at the heart of all we do – in every action we take and every decision we make.
The model enables us to build better relationships and work collaboratively with families to create safety plans focused on their strengths, networks and resources.
Every practitioner and service within the organisation is Signs of Safety trained and there are plenty of courses for you to access to strengthen your knowledge.
Research-based training
NCT is a member of Making Research Count (MRC), a national collaborative research initiative involving several universities.
This is of enormous benefit to our workforce, as they can directly access workshops, seminars, regional events and emerging research summaries to build their knowledge-based practice.
We also provide access to Research in Practice that brings together academic research, practice expertise and the experiences of people accessing services to support evidence-informed practice.
The right conditions for success
We have the right conditions for you to thrive. These were carefully developed from a series of ’58-minute’ workforce sessions with our Chief Executive, Colin Foster. They fit together like a jigsaw – each piece reliant on the other.
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Partnerships
We work together meaningfully with openness towards shared goals. Children, young people and families benefit from us working side-by-side with them. -
People
We enable all to be the best they can be and develop an awesome workforce. Children, young people and families benefit from a highly skilled, motivated workforce. -
Communication
We ensure that all voices are listened to, heard and valued. Children, young people and families benefit from clear communication at all times. -
Environment
We create accessible and welcoming spaces to work collaboratively and privately with colleagues. Children, young people and families benefit from the best work environment we create. -
Processes
We empower our system to deliver the best support by having clear, up-to-date policies which enable slick processes. Children, young people and families benefit from a confident and empowered workforce. -
Tools
We support a confident and competent workforce who have the tools they need to aspire to excellence. Children, young people and families benefit from everybody having the right toolkit to do their best work. -
Culture
We treat each other with kindness, compassion and respect. Children, young people and families benefit from everybody giving their very best every single day.
A clear improvement plan
When you join us, you’ll be part of a unified workforce that is on an inspiring improvement journey. Together, we’re relentless in our purpose to improve outcomes for children, young people and families and to achieve this, we have six strategic priorities:
Effective leadership.
Our improvement is driven by a stable senior leadership team that provides strategic direction, clarity of the vision for the service and sets clear priorities and expectations.
Recruit, retain and develop an awesome workforce.
We commit to recruiting, developing and retaining a committed, skilful and child-centred workforce and provide them with an environment where good practice will flourish.
Strong relationship-based practice.
We ensure our practice model is child-centred at its heart and evidenced through all that we do.
Insightful quality assurance and learning.
We know ourselves and our practice well through rigorous quality assurance.
Healthy partnerships.
We work strategically with our core partners to share responsibility for driving our improvement plan, and our workforce pursues effective multi-agency practice.
Robust and effective resource management.
We are an effective, high-performing trust with high standards of resource management.
We all want each other to succeed
At NCT, everyone is travelling in the same direction. We are ambitious for all children, young people and families and understand that we each have a critical role in making a difference to their outcomes.
We work strategically with our partners to ensure that positive opportunities and effective help are available at the earliest opportunity.
We look out for one another and ensure that there is plenty of opportunity for reflective discussion and sharing of best practice.
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Ready to step into our world?
If you’d like to work in a children’s services team that is “overwhelmingly positive” and have the full support and training to challenge yourself professionally, NCT could be the perfect environment for you.
Our recruitment partner, Sanctuary Personnel, will provide you with lots of information about each role. But, if you'd like to have an informal chat, please feel free to DM our Chief Executive, Colin Foster, on Twitter @colinjfoster or email him at colin.foster@nctrust.co.uk and he’ll arrange to give you a call.