What is the job role?
As a Children and Family Worker within the Fostering Service, you will work flexibly to meet the needs of the service. You will be a key person within the fostering family’s network, offering essential support services, advice, training, and strategies to manage the needs of children in care.
You will work in partnership and empower children and young people with complex needs, and their families, to sustain positive behaviour changes. You will act as a Key Worker with case-management responsibilities to coordinate and plan integrated, intensive family support.
You will provide appropriate assessments and support to children and young people with complex needs and experience of trauma, their families or carers.
You will deliver individual and group work programmes to children, young people and their families in a range of settings.
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?
You will be a passionate worker, child-centred, enthusiastic, quick-thinking and confident in communicating with children, families, professionals, and individuals from other agencies in order to gather relevant information and plan strategies of support for a fostering household.
You will need to be able to manage your own diary and caseload as well as effectively communicate and work with the team around a child in order to improve outcomes for children and families.
You will have some knowledge of therapeutic parenting and responses to trauma.
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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: Monday, 15th June.
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.