What is the job role?
12 months FTC
Safeguarding in Education Adviser in Coventry City Council Children’s Services.
You will represent children’s services and education in multi-agency forums including Safeguarding Reference Groups with Headteachers and wider professionals across the organisation, hosting DSL Briefings regularly with schools across the year, leading Safeguarding Audit visits to act as a 'critical friend' to Coventry's schools to support in strengthening safeguarding practice in education settings, and will lead on the development and delivery of a comprehensive and robust safeguarding training programme that meets the needs of Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), Head Teachers, teaching and non-teaching staff and governors.
You will be joining the specialist multi-disciplinary Risk Management Team where the core function is the strategic management and delivery of Coventry’s Safeguarding In Education service, LADO and Quality Assurance activity and scheduling across Social Work teams.
Who are we looking for?
Who are we looking for?
You’ll need
You will be educated to degree level and be a qualified teacher or qualified social worker with demonstrable experience as a designated safeguarding lead or similar. You will have the skills and proven ability to support, advise and challenge the performance of 0-18 education providers in respect of their safeguarding practice, policies and procedures.
You must be able to work with a level of professional responsibility and autonomy and be able to analyse and respond to complex situations across education and children’s services.
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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(s): 18th or 19th December
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 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.