Domestic Abuse and Relationship Specialist
SO2 (£37,280 - £41,771) this role is eligible for an Essential Car User allowance of up to £963 per annum
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent.
Hybrid: Central House, homeworking and travel across Greater Manchester to various client facing venues
Application Deadline: 17 August 2026 11:59pm.
Shortlisting Date: 20 August 2026
Interview Date: 27 August 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 route 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 provide expertise, assessment, support and intervention to parents, where domestic abuse and relationship issues are prevalent and who require the specialist interventions of a Domestic Abuse worker.
You will work closely with a range of other professionals, both within the team and externally. Your role will require you to contribute to regular court reports and also to attend court on occasions to support your allocated families through the FDAC proceedings.
About You
The ideal candidate will have knowledge, understanding and experience of working with families where domestic abuse has been a key feature, including experience of providing direct intervention with both victims and alleged perpetrators. You will have an understanding of other risk factors that are addressed within the team too, including drug and alcohol use issues, mental health difficulties and trauma. You will be interested in working to address parent’s difficulties in a holistic and therapeutic manner.
You will be an empathetic and creative 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 compassionate in challenging and difficult situations.
You will have education to degree level in a relevant field, such as social work, counselling, psychology or similar. IDVA training qualification or equivalent is desirable.
The successful candidate will need a driving licence, access to a car during working hours and business insurance. The Greater Manchester FDAC team currently works across Stockport, Manchester, Bolton, Tameside, Wigan and Oldham; however will be 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 the following for an informal discussion: Joanne Harris FDAC Service Lead ([email protected]) or Lisa Head FDAC senior therapeutic social worker ([email protected] ).
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 to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme
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