Specialist Training Officer - Domestic Abuse and Sexual Abuse

The Public Health team is part of the Public Health and Migration Division.
Reporting to the Director of Public Health and Wellbeing, the team helps people to stay healthy and protect them from threats to their health.

The Public Health team commissions and delivers a wide range of services and programmes that tackle health inequalities and help people to live healthier lives, including:

• Alcohol and drug misuse strategy, treatment and recovery services
• Sexual health services, including sexually transmitted infections and contraception
• Healthy lifestyles support losing weight, getting more active, giving up smoking, cutting down on alcohol and improving your well-being
• Physical activity strategy and projects, including school-based exercise, parks and cycling
• Family health, including health visiting, infant feeding, school nurses, teenage pregnancy support, family weight management and services supporting BME families
• Health protection strategy and services including air quality, blood-borne virus testing, screening & immunisations, infection control, emergency planning and outbreak management
• The Marmot City strategy, reducing health inequalities across the city
• Domestic abuse and sexual abuse strategies and support services
• Youth violence reduction

This is an exciting and challenging time to work in the Public Health Team. If you are an individual who is committed to achieving the best outcomes for people across Coventry, our team can help you make a difference through high-quality professional support, supervision, excellent learning and development opportunities

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in the Public Health team. We are seeking a Specialist Training Officer to enable and support each member agency of Coventry Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault and Abuse Local Partnership Board and any related organisations to meet a good standard of training and development for their staff and service users around domestic abuse, having regard to legislation and guidance as well as local, regional and national learning.

You will be required to develop and deliver multi-agency and single training as well as lead on other areas, including wider workforce development activity.

The role will also require the individual to evaluate training needs and workforce development, and support all relevant Programme Managers within the Public Health Team in line with statutory requirements and identified local needs to address identified gaps.

This post will develop and deliver multi-agency and single-agency training on a variety of wider Public Health initiatives. They will build an e-learning resource and other resources for Public Health which will support wider workforce development activity.

This role contributes to the One Coventry Objective - Improving outcomes and tackling inequalities within our communities.

All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.

We are looking for a passionate, knowledgeable and confident individual with experience in domestic abuse and sexual abuse who can support the development of a skilled and informed workforce across Coventry. You will be an engaging trainer and communicator, able to deliver high-quality training and awareness sessions to a wide range of audiences within multi-agency and single-agency settings.

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of domestic abuse, sexual abuse and wider Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) issues, alongside relevant legislation, statutory guidance and current best practice. You will be able to translate complex information into practical learning that supports professionals and organisations to improve responses, safeguarding and outcomes for victims and survivors.

We are seeking someone with experience in workforce development, training delivery and evaluating learning needs. You will be confident in designing and delivering both face-to-face and online learning resources, including e-learning content, and using feedback, research and analysis to continuously improve the training offer.

The role requires excellent partnership-working skills and the ability to build positive relationships across agencies, supporting collaborative learning and development in line with local and national priorities. You will work closely with Programme Managers and partners across the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Abuse Local Partnership Board to identify training gaps and respond to emerging needs.

You will be highly organised, proactive and committed to improving outcomes and tackling inequalities within communities, aligning with the One Coventry approach. A degree-level qualification or significant relevant professional experience is essential, alongside strong presentation, communication and analytical skills.

Our workforce data shows that men, people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities and people from the LGBTQ+ community are under-represented, so we encourage applicants from these backgrounds to apply.  This does not prevent individuals with other protected characteristics as set out within the Equalities Act 2010 from applying for this post.

This advert will close as soon as sufficient applications are received. Therefore, you are strongly advised to complete and return your application as soon as possible.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

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:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• 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): 13th and 14th July 2026. Interviews will be held at our offices in 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 5100 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