Our Values

It’s great to know that you are interested in working with us at Coventry City Council. As a prospective employee, it is important that everyone who works for us is committed to our One Coventry values and shares our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. 

Our Values are:

About the team we are recruiting to

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

We have a simple vision and strategy that defines what we are trying to achieve, our purpose and our approach which underpin the principles of Adult Social Care, and we continue to work in support of this.

In a simple sense all our work, at whatever level should continue to support the strategy of: ‘Providing support, in the least intrusive manner possible, based on the assets, resources and abilities that are available to people’.

What is the job role?

Are you a people person who is well connected within local communities and/or voluntary and third sector organisations? If so, this might be the role for you!

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic, and dedicated lifestyle coordinator to be part of an exciting new project which will see the current Dementia Day care provision develop into a single Dementia Partnership Hub for Coventry. The ethos of the service is to enable people to live well with Dementia.

As a brand-new service, your role will be to make connections within the community to encourage carers and people living with dementia to access the hub, building up the customer base, raising awareness of what we can offer, developing an understanding of the barriers preventing carers and people with dementia from accessing the service in the first place.

This new role would give you the opportunity to look at developing a programme to deliver activities within the Hub whilst working with other organisations who may be best placed to offer specific activities. You will be working to identify the demand for specific activities or information sessions and guest speakers and responsible for setting these up. 

Once activity sessions are up and running you would work with individuals within the group who has potential to take over the running of the sessions, this might be service users and/or Carers with experience or an interest in said sessions.

You will promote independence and apply a person-centred approach in a safe, respectful, and dignified manner; giving people choice and control over the services they are using and ensuring the best possible outcomes for individuals can be met.

The hub will also be providing traditional day services alongside drop-in sessions and an outreach service

This is a new bespoke post likely to start in June 2023 and is 37 hours on a fixed-term contract for 12 months initially.

In return for your commitment, Coventry City Council offers a wide range of employee benefits, specialised training and will support you to develop within your role and plan your future career.

This post is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Who are we looking for?

A passionate and confident person who is comfortable talking to people from all walks of life. An organiser with good links to the local community and a willingness to talk to different communities and organisation's to form relationships and build up a customer base.  A person who embraces the ethos that people with dementia can live well with dementia.

In further detail, your key duties and responsibilities will be to:

• Ensure the rights of people who access our services are always promoted, ensuring that the principles of choice, control, dignity, respect, involvement, and empowerment are maintained.
• Ensure that the emotional wellbeing of the people we support is respected in all aspects of service delivery, wherever possible enabling them to assert responsibility for their own lives and obtain and act in accordance with the consent of the person regarding their care and support.
• Help in creating opportunities and choices, so that everyone can achieve their desired outcomes and has appropriate control over the decision-making process about the service they may receive.
• Promote the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual wellbeing of the people we support including supporting people to access local facilities and opportunities.

This advert will close as soon as sufficient applications are received. Therefore, you are strongly advised to complete and return your application as soon as possible.

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'

Interview date: 21 June 2023.  These interviews will be in person and include a short assessment.

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 4800 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

Coventry City Council