Children’s Services is a service area within Coventry City Council that supports children and families across the city. 

The vision and commitment of Children’s Services ensures that a high quality and child centred service is provided, ensuring the right help at the right time and engaging with partners.  

Children’s Services is committed to outcome-driven and impactful interventions and measures success by the outcome for children and families.  

The service reflects and responds to the changing needs of Coventry and its population and understands the need for a reflective and flexible service with a strong Early Help offer to provide early and targeted intervention so that families can access the support they need from a variety of partners and agencies.  

A successful recruitment and retention strategy has resulted in a committed and stable workforce who are dedicated to delivering excellent services to children and young people in Coventry.  

It is a great time to join our diverse workforce within Children’s Services, with great opportunities to develop your learning, ongoing training to improve practice, a clear way to progress through our progression pathway, and an engaging team that recognises success and values staff.  

What is the job role?

Family Group Conferencing is an exciting new way of utilising children’s support networks of family members and friends to make plans for children experiencing serious problems in their lives. A Family Group Conference brings together family members in a meeting facilitated by the FGC Co-ordinator.

You will need to be experienced in working with Children and Families, able to work independently and be committed to the empowerment of families.  Your role will be to support families to make safe decisions and plans for children within the context of a Family Group Conference.

You will facilitate and deliver Family Group Conferences (FGC) in accordance with the identified policies and aims of Family Group Conference Service.   Promote and develop Coventry’s Family Group Conference service within a framework of equality of opportunity.

This role is based on a casual basis paying £16.26 - £19.61 per hour.

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?

To be successful in this role you will need the following skills, knowledge and experience:

• A professional qualification in the field of social work, child care, education, child Health
• Educated to first-degree level and /or relevant qualification in relevant field
• Knowledge of child protection guidelines and current legislation and policy-relevant to children and families eg Children Act, Human Rights Act, Public Law Outline, Adoption and Children Act
• Knowledge of preventative practice with families including solution focussed and strength-based practice. 
• Knowledge of national strategies and frameworks for the provision of children's services for safeguarding children and improving the life chances of children.
• Ability to relate to children and young people and people and their families to mediate, negotiate and promote family-based problem solving
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels a range of individuals, in a variety of different manners, on complex or legal issues
• Ability to co-ordinate and chair complex meetings

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

All attachments for the job can be found here

 

Introduction to Coventry City Council

Coventry is a lively, multicultural city, which embraces old and new. Around the modern city centre there are traces of history everywhere – in the old city walls, the timber-framed buildings and the reconstructed medieval Spon Street. But Coventry has always had an eye on the future, and is now firmly focused on regenerating and re-inventing itself to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. With major developments and new projects taking place right across the city, Coventry City Council is the place to be!

There's a huge buzz about the city – Coventry ranks as the 8th best city to live, work and do business in the UK, and is the UK City of Culture 2021 ! We believe this will help put Coventry on the map for all the right reasons. You can feel the sense of local pride throughout the city as we build towards this momentous year. It also offers a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to those joining us to play their part in it.

We genuinely believe that Coventry City Council is a special place. You will be joining Coventry City Council during an exciting time to become part of a team that contribute to achieving our visions for the city. We have made our council a place where we look after our people, making sure you're happy in your work and given everything you need to succeed. We've created friendly, welcoming workplaces where everyone is working towards the same cause, providing the best possible services for the city of Coventry.

As a Council with improvement at its heart, we’re committed to making life better for the people who live and work in Coventry. We’re equally concerned with the quality of life enjoyed by our people, so by joining us, you won’t just be helping the community, you’ll be helping yourself too.

Not only do you get to work alongside great people that are helping to improve services for our community we offer great benefits too! For your valued contribution we will provide a fantastic benefits package including;

• Flexible working arrangements
• Generous annual leave allowance starting at 27 days and rising to 32 days
• Pay progression through multiple increments
• Outstanding local government pension scheme
• Learning & Development with access to certified courses.
• Access to an award winning Occupational Health Team
• Vibrant employee networks