The Community Safety team work with partners under the leadership of the Coventry Police Crime and Community Safety Board to make Coventry a safer, more confident city. Working in partnership with statutory and voluntary sectors we help solve problems on the causes and drivers of

• Harm and Vulnerability
• Exploitation and issues of Modern Day Slavery
• Offender Management
• Anti-social behaviour
• Place based crime issues   

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:

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to support the Community Safety Team as a full-time Community Safety Officer. 

This role involves working in a small Community Safety Team to coordinate and deal with Community Safety Issues in Coventry.  

This particular role will be focussed on Modern Day Slavery and we will require the person to:-  

• Lead on Strategic work to obtain a picture of Modern Day Slavery needs in the City and what coordinated action can be taken to address it.
• to work closely with Department Leads to ensure that the Local Authority is meeting its duty in regard to Modern Day Slavery.
• Working across multi-agency groups and Co-ordinating actions to address issues of Modern Day Slavery and Adult exploitation.
• Representing the Community Safety Team at regional groups and Networks in regard to Modern Day Slavery and other Community Safety Issues.     
• Developing and Co-ordinating training to ensuring that our workforce has a strong awareness of Modern Day Slavery issues.

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).

We are looking for a new team member will an excellent understanding of Community Safety Issues.

• Strong experience in working in the Community Safety field. We are particularly looking for experience in working in response to Modern Day Slavery issues.
• A good understanding of the roles and duties the Local Authority has in relation to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. 
• A passion for supporting victims and driving change to improve the Local Authority response to Community Safety issues.
• Someone with great organising, co-ordinating, and prioritising skills who has experience of working in partnerships to deliver action to support Community Safety issues.
• Someone who has great investigative and analytical skills to determine the picture of Community Safety needs such as Modern Day Slavery.
• A person with good leadership skills to help drive strategy to deliver change in issues to support victims of crime and exploitation.  

For an informal conversation before the submission date, please email: joy.adams@coventry.gov.uk

In your application, you will be asked to complete a personal statement to explain how you meet the person specification. It is important that you read the job description and person statement and give specific examples of how you meet the criteria. We are particularly looking for

• Details of your experience working in the Community Safety field, particularly your experience relating to Modern Day Slavery.
• Details of your experience in working in partnerships to take action to tackle Community Safety Issues.
• Information on what strategic work you have completed in relation to Community Safety Issues.
• What roles you have had in co-ordinating and leading on community safety issues to support victims of exploitation.

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

Interview date(s): 17th January 2023

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 & benefits package which includes:

• Flexible working arrangements
• Generous annual leave allowance starting at 27 days and rising to 32 days
• Pay progression through multiple increments
• Opportunity for Salary Match
• An outstanding local government pension scheme
• Great opportunities to develop with access to accredited courses.
• Access to an award-winning Occupational Health Service
• Salary Sacrifice Scheme