Overview
Salary: £28598 – £34434
Shift hours: 37
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 where you will offer 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 behavioural changes. You will act as a Key Worker with case management responsibilities to co-ordinate and plan integrated and intensive family support.
You will provide appropriate assessments and support to children and young people with complex needs and experience of trauma.
You will deliver individual and group work programmes to children, young people and their families in a range of settings.
You will also support Special Guardians who require access to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Order Support Fund (ASGSF), this includes working directly with families to identify their support needs and consult with therapeutic providers and agencies to access these services. This will also include chairing set up meetings, attending mid-way reviews and completing closure meetings and accessing the outcomes to record on the ASGSF portal. This post is in line with the Social Care Reform and Kinship Strategy supporting children in kinship care to obtain good outcomes.
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 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).
A passionate, child centred, enthusiastic and solution focused person to join the Fostering Service. You will need to be confident in communicating with children, families, professionals, and individuals from other agencies to gather relevant information and plan strategies of support for fostering households.
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 to improve outcomes for children and families.
You will need to have some knowledge of therapeutic parenting and responses to trauma.
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: Tuesday 26th August 2025
Reference: coventrycc/TP/136888/11419
