Family Drug & Alcohol Court Locality Social Worker

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title:
  
  Family Drug & Alcohol Court Locality Social Worker
• Job Location:
  
  Tewkesbury
• Salary: £39,152 - £47,181 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type:
  Permanent
• Closing Date: 02/11/2025
• Job Requisition Number: 12811
• This post is open to job share

We are looking for an FDAC Social Worker to deepen their practice and develop their skills.

This role will sit within the Children & Families team in Tewkesbury.

The Social Worker will hold an FDAC family and work alongside the multi-agency service, TACS, to deliver the evidence-based therapeutic interventions in the collaborative, problem-solving court, FDAC. A crucial aspect of these posts will be to bring learning back into the locality teams and further enhance services to locality families and communities.

Reward and Support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £39,152 - £47,181 per annum
• £4,000 welcome payment*
• £2,000 retention payment*
• up to £8,000 relocation package*
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro rata for part-time staff)
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy
• Cycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
• Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)

Right child, right support, right time, every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’

This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

About the role

As an FDAC Social Worker you can expect the following:

• systemic practice that is curious, courageous, and compassionate
• trauma-informed approaches
• deeper understanding of Hidden Harm and its impact on children
• confidence in court settings and the expert voice of social workers
• restorative practice with high support and high challenge
• development of multi-agency interventions
• collaborative permanency planning
• equal access to FDAC for families across all localities
• you’ll be the ‘spoke’, holding one FDAC case from your locality
• TACS will be the ‘hub’, supporting you as part of the wider family team
• you’ll deliver interventions and share learning with your locality team
• hold one FDAC case (approx. 2 days/week)
• reduced caseload to support this work
• attend fortnightly FDAC hearings with your family
• write and curate all FDAC reports (review, evidence, final)
• attend…