Family Drug and Alcohol Court: Therapeutic Social Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 19 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 19 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Stockport, SK1 3TA |
| Cwmni: | inploi |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 75768656 |
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Family Drug and Alcohol Court: Therapeutic Social Worker
SO3 (£39,862 - £45,091)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
Central House, Stockport and travel to other Greater Manchester locations.
Application Deadline: 19 December 2025, 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 22 December 2025
Interview Date: 8 January 2026
Interview Type: Face to Face
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Your Role
The Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) is a national therapeutic problem-solving court model, which offers an alternative to standard care proceedings. FDACs use a trauma-informed approach to help families address their difficulties with substance/alcohol use, relationships, mental health concerns and other complex issues.
Your role will require you to undertake comprehensive assessments and along with the multi-disciplinary team plan and deliver a programme of work to meet the needs of the family.
You will work closely with a range of other professionals including the local authority, CAFCASS and community drug and alcohol services. Your role will also require you to provide regular reports to Court and to attend court regularly to support your allocated families through the FDAC proceedings.
About You
The ideal candidate will be a qualified social worker who has experience of working with families subject to care proceedings. You will have experience of working with families who have complex needs, including drug and alcohol misuse issues, mental health difficulties and trauma.
You will be an empathetic and creative social worker who is interested in working intensively with families to help create lasting change. You will have good problem-solving skills, be a team player and be non-judgmental in your approach. You must have the ability to remain calm and understanding in challenging and difficult situations and be interested in working therapeutically.
Current registration with Social Work England is essential as is DipSW/Degree in Social Work or equivalent.
The successful candidate will need a driving licence and access to a car during working hours and business insurance. FDAC currently work across Stockport, Manchester, Bolton, Tameside and Wigan; however is expanding across other Greater Manchester boroughs.
About Us
The specialist multi-disciplinary FDAC team includes therapeutic social workers, clinical psychologists, substance misuse, domestic abuse and parenting workers to provide intensive support, built around the family, designed to enable and empower parents to overcome their difficulties.
You will participate in regular multidisciplinary formulations where we will draw on the team's expertise to plan the most helpful interventions to suit the family’s needs. You will have the opportunity to work closely with all team members, including the FDAC clinical psychologist, to develop your own specialist knowledge and resources to effect change.
You will receive regular high-quality supervision and support, career development opportunities and the chance to be part of implementing the FDAC innovative model. You will have access to specialist training to help develop your understanding of the FDAC model and therapeutic approaches used.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Joanne or Bee for an informal discussion: Joanne Harris FDAC Service Lead (Joanne.harris@stockport.gov.uk) or Bee Hollingdale FDAC Senior Therapeutic Social Worker (rebecca.hollingdale@stockport.gov.uk)
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://greater.jobs/content/13405/greater-manchester-guaranteed-assessment-scheme
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