FDAC Children and Families Worker

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FDAC, Family Drug and Alcohol Court, is a problem-solving court, where parents are assessed and offered an intensive intervention from a multi-disciplinary team, offering Trauma Informed and Relationship Based Intervention where their children are subject to care proceedings and where substance misuse has been a feature of their parenting difficulties . The team work directly with the parents with the hope that they can overcome their difficulties in the timeframe for the child, and support permanency for the child in a time focused manner. 

Coventry and Warwickshire FDAC are a well-established and a nationally recognised team for innovative practice within the public sector. The specialist multi-disciplinary FDAC team has developed and refined its knowledge of working with parental substance misuse. The Team’s combined skills and expertise offer an accessible and holistic approach to parent/s to overcome their difficulties to achieve abstinence. The Two elements of the intervention are – Can the parent overcome their difficulties in the timeframe for the child and can they provide safe enough care ? 

This is a Coventry City Council post but through the partnership with Warwickshire County Council will offer a service to  Warwickshire families too.
Our ValuesIn line with our One Coventry Values we strive to have a workforce that reflects our local communities and welcome applicants from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds, applicants who have a disability and applicants who are from the LGBTQ+ community to apply for our senior leadership roles. 

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What is the job role?

We are looking for a Child and Family Worker to join our team on an initial 15-month fixed term basis. 

Within the role you will be work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, assessing and intervening with families. You will work in partnership and empower families to sustain positive behaviour changes

The role is multi-facetted, you will support the parenting component of the assessment and intervention, facilitate group work and  act as  Key Worker with case management responsibilities to co-ordinate the plan. In addition you will contribute the team formulations to plan and deliver  integrated and intensive family support. Including working with Parents whose children are subject to care proceedings as a result of parental substance misuse  provide appropriate assessments

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).
Who are we looking for?We are looking for an individual with experience of parenting programmes, understanding of children’s needs, observing , teaching, and modelling positive parenting.

Relationship based practice and problem-solving skills are key skills as is the ability to write reports as part of the FDAC Trial for change.

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

Interview date(s): 10th April 2024
About CoventryCoventry 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