Family Drug and Alcohol Court Social Worker/ Senior Social Worker

·         Job title: Family Drug and Alcohol Court Social Worker/ Senior Social Worker

·         Job Location: Tewkesbury

·         Salary: £39,152- £47,181 per annum

·         Hours per week: 37 hours

·         Contract Type: permanent

·         Closing Date: 26/04/2026

·         This post is open to job share.

Gloucestershire Children's Service are looking for an FDAC Social Worker to join the Tewkesbury Children and Families team.

Reward and Support

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

between £39,152 - £47,181 per annum subject to experience
£4,000 welcome payment*
£2,000 retention payment*
up to £8,000 for relocation funds*
flexible and agile working opportunities
25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
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
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.

We are looking 2 FDAC social workers to cover three localities; Stroud, Tewkesbury and Forest of Dean. You will hold an FDAC family and work alongside the multi-agency service and TACS. You will work to deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions in the collaborative, problem-solving court, FDAC. A crucial aspect of these roles will be to bring learning back into the locality teams and further enhance services to locality families and communities.

As a locality FDAC Social Worker, you’ll experience:

systemic practice that is curious, courageous, and compassionate
trauma-informed approaches
multi-professional collaboration and planning
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
use of language that cares
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

What it will involve:

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

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

*Please note that all our welcome and retention payments are subject to terms and conditions as well as tax and national insurance deductions

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