What is the job role?
The Children’s Improvement Team work closely with the Children’s and Education’s Services Senior Leadership Team to drive forward good standards of improvement across the service, that supports delivery of the very best outcomes for children, young people and families within the city.
We are seeking to appoint a Children’s Services Improvement Support Officer to join a fast paced, dynamic team whose role it is to support the Service Inspection and Improvement Lead in the delivery of improvement projects and priorities and the implementation of plans across the Children’s and Education’s Services. This role is part time 30 hours for a 6-month period. You will:
• Support the team on delivering health and wellbeing initiatives across the service.
• Provide support with preparation/logistics for Inspections (e.g. Inspection of Local Authority Children’s Services (ILACS); Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities inspection (SEND) and the Youth Justice inspection (HMIP) e.g. taking actions at meetings; generating reports and analysing data/benchmarking with other Local Authorities.
• Undertake ad hoc projects across the service setting up processes, providing briefings and analysing information and findings and reviewing action plans.
• Support the team with improvement events/activities and fostering innovation and new ways of working to continually improve services.
All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 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?
To be successful in this role we are looking for people who:
• Have experience and the ability to promote good working relationships with a wide range of staff at all levels in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors
• Have experience of health and wellbeing initiatives that support staff wellbeing
• Have experience of supporting on projects/ reviews or inspection activities monitoring progress and presenting information to a variety of stakeholders.
• Able to work on own initiative working under pressure, and be flexible to change
• Excellent communicator in writing and verbally and be able to adapt to relevant audiences, including senior managers, Councillors, partners on a range of issues.
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Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
1. Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
2. Are currently in care or have previously been in care
3. If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
Interview date: 20th August
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