Our workforce priorities
A resilient workforce is required to support families in achieving their aims and keeping children and young people protected and achieving good outcomes. Children’s Services is committed to achieving our overarching vision: ‘One Coventry: ‘Together children and families are at the heart of everything we do’
Coventry is committed to ensuring that the conditions for practice development include an operational culture that promotes a dialogue of relational and restorative practice, reflective thinking, feedback, learning, and support.
Our Workforce Priorities have been updated to reflect three key areas to focus on:
Achieving a stable workforce
- With permanent staff in all posts, a diverse and inclusive workforce that is representative of the Coventry community.
- Working with National and Regional partners to ensure Coventry’s offer is competitive and fair; where agency practitioners are needed the expectations of the Memorandum of Understanding are met.
An effective wellbeing offer
- Practitioners supported to achieve a good work-life balance.
- Practitioners routinely provided with information about health and wellbeing and encouraged to access dedicated wellbeing activity that supports individuals to “bring their best selves to work”
Comprehensive and effective learning and development opportunities
- Learning and development offer that supports practitioners to continuously develop their competencies, knowledge, skills and the quality and consistency of practice.
- Clear Progression pathways at all levels from pre-qualification to management.