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 safeguarding children, children who are looked after, are leaving care or adopted.  

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 strengthening and keeping families together. 

Coventry 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 practice with children and families can flourish and make the most difference, with high support and high challenge at the forefront.

Coventry is passionate about creating something special, where families are valued, where risks can be safely managed within the family and their network, and where families are empowered and enabled to do it differently.

We believe that families are the experts in their own lives, and we want to embrace this and create change through this; by working with them to take the lead in their plans, in their support package and in decision making.

We are building a service based on relationship and restorative based practice in line with our Signs of Safety methodology and the family valued model enables children services to only intervene when it has to, enabling the opportunity for the family to have more control.

What is the job role?

We are currently looking for a Practice Educator to join our Help and Protection Area Team on a 12 month fixed term basis.

As Practice Educator you will contribute to the development and retention of social workers through the provision of practical support,  training, research, learning and assessment.

You will oversee and manage the learning and development of assigned staff/social work students within the designated team/service and will support staff to develop their knowledge, skills and experience relevant to the service area.

You will develop  and enhance practice relating to an area of specialism in respect of learning, research and/or service improvement for the Service Area.

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?

We are looking for a Qualified Social Worker with substantial knowledge of social work practice with Children, including theory, government initiatives, law and current research. For the position in the Looked After Children & Permanence Service, you will be required to have  a substantial working knowledge about care planning for children subject to care proceedings.

You will have knowledge of Social work’s code of practice and registration issues.

You will have substantial knowledge of learning styles, teaching and assessment methods, sound knowledge of AOP and ADP issues, national and local policies and how they affect service users and students.

You will also have substantial knowledge of the requirements of the social work degree (including PCF and Knowledge and Skills Statements for Statutory Children and Families Social Work), NQSW and Professional Practice Standards.

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

For an informal conversation about the role please contact Sarbjeet Bhambra - Sarbjeet.bhambra@coventry.gov.uk

Interview date: Friday 13th January 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