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 have a fantastic Service Manager opportunity in Children’s Services in Coventry and are looking for a Risk Management Coordinator to join our team on a full-time permanent basis. 

This is a Service Management position within Childrens Quality Assurance where you will lead and manage the Risk Management Team comprising LADO, Prevent, Safeguarding in Education and Quality Assurance and Monitoring.

Coventry City Council Childrens Services is a service that values its employees and has a great understanding of the needs of our communities, and a shared ambition to strengthen its offer to children and families. We want to deliver services that children and families will benefit from; this role will play a significant part in making this happen.

You will manage and oversee the local authority and partner agencies responses to allegations regarding professionals who are deemed to have abused their ‘Positions of Trust,’ working with children (in paid employment and volunteering).

You will be responsible for the management and leadership of the ongoing development of services and professional practice; delivery of training, to support the early identification of children and young people at risk of harm through radicalisation (Prevent Duty) and pupils and students at risk of significant harm (school based safeguarding services).

You will manage & oversee the Children’s Services quality assurance programme to support the identification and delivery of service wide learning and development priorities for best practice impact and outcomes with children and families and assure the maintenance of high service and professional standards across the service through effective quality assurance accomplishments.

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 an inspirational leader who can demonstrate the relevant knowledge, skill and experience required as outlined in the Job Description and Person Specification.

You will have an ambition that matches Coventry City Council Children’s Services! Join us at this exciting moment and time of change, to be part of Children’s Services development to the next level. The challenges are big, but the opportunities are great!

To be successful in the role you will be a qualified Social Worker with knowledge of the application of CSCP multi agency processes and procedures, knowledge of relevant underpinning legislation including Children Act 2004, Working Together 2015 and subsequent, Criminal & Court Services Act 2000, Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2009, Sexual Offences Act 2003, Counter Terrorism & Security Act 2015 (updated 2021), Keeping Children Safe in Education. 

You will have experience in leading partnership working and inter-agency partnership and experience of leading and managing change.

You will be a robust decision maker who is great at clarifying goals, can positively challenge colleagues and turn ideas into a reality.

Coventry City Council aims to have a workforce that represents the diverse communities we serve, embracing and utilising the broadest range of skills, experience and perspectives this brings.

For an informal conversation about this role please contact Judith Jones - Judith.Jones@coventry.gov.uk 

Interview date: 9th 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