About the team we are recruiting to

Children’s Services is a service area within Coventry City Council that supports children and families across the city. 

The vision and commitment of Children’s Services ensures that a high quality and child centred service is provided, ensuring the right help at the right time and engaging with partners.  

Children’s Services is committed to outcome-driven and impactful interventions and measures success by the outcome for children and families.  

The service reflects and responds to the changing needs of Coventry and its population and understands the need for a reflective and flexible service with a strong Early Help offer to provide early and targeted intervention so that families can access the support they need from a variety of partners and agencies.  

A successful recruitment and retention strategy has resulted in a committed and stable workforce who are dedicated to delivering excellent services to children and young people in Coventry.  

It is a great time to join our diverse workforce within Children’s Services, with great opportunities to develop your learning, ongoing training to improve practice, a clear way to progress through our progression pathway, and an engaging team that recognises success and values staff.  

What is the job role?

If you are passionate about making a difference to children’s lives and want to help prevent their exploitation, we want to hear from you. 

We are looking for a Child Exploitation Coordinator to work creatively with a range of partners ensuring there is an effective response to this developing and dynamic risk  You will have experience of partnership working and be confident to use your own initiative to manage and prioritise your workload. You will need to be skilled at undertaking research and preparing reports that assist in decision making and targeting of services. 

The role

This role sits within Children’s Services, its primary purpose is to  further develop and support the work of the Local Authority and key partner agencies to promote a dynamic and effective multi-agency and community response to child exploitation and extra familial harm; focusing on the safeguarding of children whilst supporting the work of national, regional and local partners to increase public confidence by disrupting exploitation.

You will be joining the specialist multi-disciplinary Risk Management Team where the core function is the strategic management and delivery of Coventry’s Home Office Prevent Duty, LADO, Safeguarding in Education and Child Criminal Exploitation.  

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 be educated to degree level and/or have a recognised professional qualification (eg. DipSW, Teaching, Probation) you will also have demonstrable experience of partnership working and child safeguarding. 

You must be confident to work with a degree of independence, professional responsibility and autonomy. You will also be knowledgeable of the varied and changing national, regional and local picture in relation to child exploitation/extra familial harm.

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

All attachments for the job can be found here

Interview dates: 2nd and 3rd July 2020

About Coventry

Coventry is a lively, multicultural city, which embraces old and new. Around the modern city centre there are traces of history everywhere – in the old city walls, the timber-framed buildings and the reconstructed medieval Spon Street. But Coventry has always had an eye on the future, and is now firmly focused on regenerating and re-inventing itself to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. With major developments and new projects taking place right across the city, Coventry City Council is the place to be!

There's a huge buzz about the city – Coventry ranks as the 8th best city to live, work and do business in the UK, and is the UK City of Culture 2021 ! We believe this will help put Coventry on the map for all the right reasons. You can feel the sense of local pride throughout the city as we build towards this momentous year. It also offers a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to those joining us to play their part in it.

We genuinely believe that Coventry City Council is a special place. You will be joining Coventry City Council during an exciting time to become part of a team that contribute to achieving our visions for the city. We have made our council a place where we look after our people, making sure you're happy in your work and given everything you need to succeed. We've created friendly, welcoming workplaces where everyone is working towards the same cause, providing the best possible services for the city of Coventry.

As a Council with improvement at its heart, we’re committed to making life better for the people who live and work in Coventry. We’re equally concerned with the quality of life enjoyed by our people, so by joining us, you won’t just be helping the community, you’ll be helping yourself too.

Not only do you get to work alongside great people that are helping to improve services for our community we offer great benefits too! For your valued contribution we will provide a fantastic benefits package including;

• Flexible working arrangements
• Generous annual leave allowance starting at 27 days and rising to 32 days
• Pay progression through multiple increments
• Outstanding local government pension scheme
• Learning & Development with access to certified courses.
• Access to an award winning Occupational Health Team
• Vibrant employee networks 

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