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

In Coventry, we are working hard to build something special. Children and families are at the heart of everything we do, and we believe they deserve the best outcomes.  Children’s Services provides a wide range of statutory and non-statutory duties, from Early Help Services, through to children who are looked after.  

The service reflects and responds to the changing needs of children and their families.  It works to enable a reflective and flexible approach, with a strong Early Help offer and a real focus on Relationship Based Practice and Signs of Safety, which focuses on intervention and keeping families together. 

Children’s Services is proud of its achievements to date and is continuing to ensure children and families remain at the heart of all it does.  We will provide you with an environment where social work can flourish, with high support, high challenge and manageable caseloads.  Children’s Services is proud of its workforce, who are committed, dedicated, and work to a high standard. We are seeking other like minded practitioners who would like to join us.  We pride ourselves on building relationships with families and partners and hold respectful practice at the centre of all we do.

The Commissioning and Partnership Service ensures that good quality, value-for-money services are in place for children and families that meet their needs wherever possible close to home, school, family and friends.  The service leads on the development of strong and effective partnership working across agencies, working collaboratively with the health sector and with other Children’s Services and Trusts across the region.

What is the job role?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Children's Commissioning as Team Manager, supervising the team of Commissioning Officers and Contract Officers.

Responsible for commissioning and quality assurance monitoring of services for some of our most vulnerable children and young people in the city, including children who are looked after, young carers and young people making a transition to independent living etc.

You will have a lead role in developing our sufficiency of placements from external providers, working with colleagues both internally and regionally to deliver our Sufficiency Strategy priorities, engaging with the market to build good relationships with providers to get the best opportunities for our children and young people.

You will manage the Contract Officers to lead on quality assurance of the contracts you are responsible for, in particular implementing our robust QA monitoring processes for children's placements and supported accommodation, regularly reporting on outcomes to senior managers.

Responsible for support to and development of your team; responsible for the effective management of the contracts budget for those services you directly commission to ensure value for money and cost effective services.

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 have experience of Commissioning services for vulnerable people, preferably children and young people.

Knowledge of policy and legislation related to Children's Services, particularly an understanding of requirements around children's placements and supported accommodation.

Commitment to engagement and consultation with children and young people and to equality, diversity and inclusion are important.

Ability to effectively lead a team of staff to deliver expected outcomes; ability to lead complex projects, negotiate with providers and effectively manage cost and quality is essential. 

Ability to build effective positive relationships with a range of stakeholders but able to challenge where required.

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

Interview date: 2nd March 2023

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