Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values we strive to have a workforce that reflects our local communities and welcome applicants from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds, applicants who have a disability and applicants who are from the LGBTQ+ community to apply for our senior leadership roles. 

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.

The Education Entitlement Service (EES) strives to deliver outstanding services for our customers, predominately the children of Coventry, who may be requiring access to education or alternative education provision. We ensure vulnerable children are appropriately supported; have a voice, that hopefully leads to their high achievement and excellent progress.

The EES is made up of a diverse range of teams all working together to recognise, support and apply innovative solutions to address the growing issues in relation to trying to educate some of our most vulnerable pupils in schools. 

The Ethnic Minority Achievement Service (EMAS) supports newly arrived children in the admission process into Education and monitors Children Missing Education (CME).  Officers may make home visits to investigate family circumstances, with special attention given to safeguarding concerns. 

Multilingual Assistants work directly with children in both primary and secondary schools providing bilingual support for children who speak English as an Additional Language.

What is the job role?

The Ethnic Minority Achievement Service maintains a casual register of people with good language skills to work as bilingual education assistants in nurseries, primary schools and secondary schools across Coventry and the surrounding area, as well as with other Coventry City Council Departments.  You will primarily be supporting newly arrived children to settle into school and begin to learn English.   

This is a casual post.  We anticipate there being a need for the languages listed, however, we cannot make any guarantee that work will be available.

Interviews are provisionally booked to take place on 29 February 2024 and/or 1 March 2024, and will be conducted, in-person interviews at our base in Coventry.

This post is exempted 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?

You will need:

• To be fluent and literate in one or more of the languages listed below
• To have a good command of written and spoken English
• To be willing to work in nurseries, primary schools, secondary schools across the city and attend ad hoc meetings
• To be available for at least 4 sessions a week either mornings or afternoons during normal school opening times
• To be able to travel to schools and other education providers across the city

We currently need people who can communicate verbally and in writing in one or more of the following languages:

Bengali, Malayalam, Panjabi, Urdu

Please list any other languages spoken in the personal statement section on your application form.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you, Panjabi

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

Interview date(s): provisional interview dates are 29 February 2024 and/or 1 March 2024

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 5100 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