Children and Family Worker

Coventry City Council; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in the UK seeks Children and Family Workers for its Single Children's Front Door. Ideal candidates will demonstrate dynamic skills in child welfare and support, conducting assessments and managing referrals effectively. This role involves collaboration with various professionals to ensure the best outcomes for children and families. It offers a chance to make a meaningful impact in a supportive, diverse environment. Join a committed team to help shape the future for Coventry's children.

Benefits

Fantastic rewards and benefits package

Training and professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Passionate about child welfare and family support.
• Ability to manage referrals and assess needs accurately.
• Experience in multi-agency collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Deliver top-quality services to children and families.
• Facilitate initial threshold assessments.
• Collaborate with health and social care professionals.

Skills

Dynamic and experienced

Child-centred approach

Quick thinking

Confident communication

Education

Relevant social work qualification

Job description

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

At Coventry City Council, we are embarking on an incredible journey to create a brighter future for Coventry's children. As a 'Good' Local Authority, we believe in pushing boundaries and delivering excellence for children and families. Our vision is clear, and our social workers are unwavering in their commitment to putting children and families at the centre of their practice.

Be part of our inspiring team, making a meaningful difference in the lives of Coventry's children. Together, let's create a nurturing environment where every child's potential can flourish.

Our Values

• 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.

What is the job role?

We have opportunities for four Children and Family workers to join our Single Children's Front Door which is aligned with the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) team on a permanent basis. The Single Children's Front Door progresses all requests for a provision of services/support for families, acting as the front door to statutory services, by applying consistent thresholds based on Coventry's Effective Support for Children & Families guidance. The Front Door brings key professionals together to facilitate quality information sharing, analysis and decision-making, to safeguard vulnerable children, young people more effectively. Staff from across Health, Children’s Services, Police, Probation and Education are based in the service at any one time at its based in ONE Friargate in the city centre. This is a great opportunity to experience working in a busy, multi‑agency environment that focuses on providing good quality advice to ensure that families receive appropriate support.

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).

Who are we looking for?

We are seeking to recruit a dynamic, experienced, and highly skilled Children and Families Worker to deliver an outstanding service to children and their families. You will be a worker who is passionate, child‑centred, enthusiastic, quick thinking and confident in dealing with members of the public, professionals, and agencies in order to manage referrals by holding relational family conversations and gathering information to enable an accurate initial threshold assessment to be made regarding the support that a child and their family may require.

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

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

For an informal conversation about the roles please contact Jacqueline Smith [e-mail].

Encouraging Diverse Applications

The children, families and young people we work with come from a variety of backgrounds and in order to deliver the best possible care it is vital that we have a workforce that represents and understands their unique experiences and perspectives. Within our team men and people from minority ethnic backgrounds are currently under‑represented across our middle‑management team, as a result we would like to encourage applicants from these backgrounds to apply. This does not prevent any other applicants with a protected characteristic or a non‑protected characteristic from applying.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

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
• Currently in care or have previously been in care
• Consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long‑term health condition

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): W/C 29/12/2025 and 05/01/2026

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 and diverse. With around 5,100 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.