Substance Misuse Practitioner - Family Drug & Alcohol Court (Coventry and Warwickshire)
What is the job role?
FDAC work closely with partner agencies, Aquarius is one of our partners, and they are recruiting a parental substance misuse worker. If you have a background in working with substance misuse or experience of assessment and intervention or you have experience of Hidden harms and you want to make a difference we want to hear from you.
Within the role you will be working 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
You will act as a Key Worker with case management responsibilities to co-ordinate and plan integrated and intensive family support including working with parents whose children are subject to care proceedings as a result of parental substance misuse and provide appropriate assessments and support to parents whose children are subject to care proceedings.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for an individual who feels passionate about effecting change for families.
You will have experience of parenting programmes and working directly with parents to deliver interventions, an understanding of children’s needs, observing, teaching and modeling positive parenting.
Do you feel confident in working with complex needs where parents have substance misuse issues, trauma, lifestyle and relationship difficulties? Do you have assessment skills and are able to write reports? If you do, we would certainly welcome your application.
Coventry City Council
