Family Drug & Alcohol Court Locality Social Worker
Gloucester
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 formulation and intervention planning meetings
- deliver interventions and support permanency planning
- work within a multidisciplinary team (including nurses, therapists, and support workers)
- receive a full induction, peer and 1:1 supervision, and contribute to transformation reviews
About You
As well as your experience, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:
- a full driving licence and willingness to drive
- DBS clearance
- To have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012)
How to apply
For an informal chat about this role, please contact Jane.Marriott@gloucestershire.gov.uk.
We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.
Interviews are due to take place in person week commencing 26th January 2026.
If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here: Children's Social Care Careers | Gloucestershire County Council
We may be able to offer sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office guidance and subject to pre-employment checks. Applicants must already hold a valid right to work in the UK that Gloucestershire County Council can transfer.
*Please note that all our welcome and retention payments are subject to terms and conditions as well as tax and national insurance deductions
**Our relocation package is subject to terms and conditions
Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior). To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Senior Social Worker Role Profile
This position is subject to a DBS check.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.