Fdac Assessing Social Worker

6 days ago

South West England, United Kingdom Sirona Medical Full time

Sirona Medical are working with a client in the Bedfordshire area who are recruiting for a Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) Assessing Social Worker. The FDAC specialist multidisciplinary team is made up of a Team Manager, Social Workers, a ParentalSubstance Misuse Specialist, a Domestic Abuse Expert, Primary Mental Health Worker and Business Support Officer. The service includes adult psychiatric and child and adolescent psychological consultation. The Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) is an alternative,and research shows, more successful form of care proceedings, where parental substance misuse is a concern. It uses a bespoke, problem-solving, trauma informed approach to target individual families’ complex difficulties. Research shows that this model issuccessful in supporting parents to engage with and stay in substance misuse services leading to more children being able to return home. Where parents do not engage and children cannot return home, quicker decisions are made about permanent placements forthem.
The Pan Bedfordshire FDAC works across the three Bedfordshire Local Authorities - Luton, Central Bedfordshire and Bedford. The lead and recruiting Local Authority is Central Bedfordshire Council. **The successful applicant will work across Bedfordshire.**
**Duties**:
The FDAC Social Worker is separate to the Child’s Social Worker. As an Assessing Social Worker in the FDAC team you would work with the court, providing an accessible community-based FDAC initial assessment and intervention plan for high needs families witha history of substance misuse.
You will work as part of a team to provide a safe space for parents to address their difficulties, achieve abstinence and become able to focus on their child and address the concerns about their parenting.
You would support parents to start on their recovery journey, encouraging them at initial assessment to invest in recovery with open engagement to enable an effective individual intervention plan to be put in place. As an experienced Social Worker, you wouldbe critical to the success of the FDAC team.
You will be the first point of contact for parents embarking on their FDAC journey.
You will undertake initial gateway screens where you share about the service with parents to help them make informed decisions about whether they wish to chose FDAC care proceedings or continue with standard care proceedings.
You will be part of a specialist team making important and key recommendations for parents and children.
Yours and your colleagues’ practice will be enriched through collaborative support of each other and learning from each other’s specialisms. You will work directly with families, provide effective and first-class intervention.
- Relevant Social Work qualification (BA/MA Social Work/DipSW or equivalent)
- Social Work England Registered
- Eligible to work within the UK
- You’ll have experience of frontline social work and will have worked within care proceedings, Child Protection and Child in Need, upholding the Code of Ethics.
- You will be a good team player and be equally capable of individual practice.
- UK drivers licence, access to a car during working hours and business insurance.

Join the FDAC team and you’ll develop a new level of specialism as you provide a bespoke, problem-solving approach to target individual families’ complex difficulties. You will have access to specialist courses covering specific areas of interest. You willbe working in a trauma informed team that is alive to the risk of secondary trauma and will receive clinical supervision.

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