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.

The Coventry Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) Support Service exists to deliver the aspirational challenge set to us by young people with SEND and their families: ‘To Lift the Cloud of Limitation and enable them to enjoy an ordinary life’. 

We are a creative, connected and forward-thinking service.  Together with our families and partners in schools, settings, the NHS and third sector, we have driven change that has pushed us to the cutting edge of SEND.  This includes embedding co-production across all areas of service delivery, investing in our SEND workforce, and pioneering new initiatives such as the award-nominated 'Together We Can' partnership group to engage Early Years children and their families and 'My Support Plan', a family-centred approach to understanding children's strengths and needs and tailoring their support. 

When Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) completed a Local Area inspection of Coventry in October 2019, they commended our “genuine passion and commitment to get things right for children and young people with SEND and their families”; our respect for the “lived experiences of children and young people with SEND and their parents” and the “strong partnership between school settings and education service providers, with a high level of buy-back of specialist services”.

Coventry’s Educational Psychology Team play a key role in maintaining the quality of our local SEND provision.  Our respected EPs work within a strong and committed team with a vibrant mix of Qualified, Trainee and Assistant EPs, Complex Communication Specialists and a Clinical Psychologist.

Excellent relationships exist with schools and a strong traded offer, enabling us to engage in creative, early-intervention work.

What is the job role?

In summary the role will focuses around a varied and inclusive programme of research opportunities, which have, in recent years included approaches to support:

• Over-active learners without recourse to medication 
• Developing systemic approaches to positive psychology and working creatively with primary school teachers to improve children’s spelling skills; and 
• Developing a local pathway to reduce extended non-attendance from school;

Support is provided by an excellent business services team and access to top quality technology, including the latest iPads, touch screen laptops and mobile phones.

Also of benefit is a high quality supervision and CPD offer, including monthly in service training, and the possibility of undertaking longer-term qualifications, for example in VIG and independently research.

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?

If you are an Educational Psychologist, or a Trainee Psychologist in your second or third year of training and you:

• Enjoy using consultation and solution focussed approaches to improve outcomes for children, young people and families
• Recognise the importance of monitoring progress toward jointly-agreed outcomes
• Have an interest in applying cutting-edge research
• Have a desire to effect change by working within and across whole school systems; and 
• Would like to work for a forward-thinking council, within which the views of psychologists are respected and applied,

then we’d love to hear from you.

Following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) for an additional pre employment check with effect 1 Sept 22, please note, an online search may form part of this recruitment process.

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

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