About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough.

With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

About The Role

As a social worker within Hounslow, you will have the exciting opportunity to work within diverse teams across the MASH, Intake, Safeguarding & Support, Adolescent, Fostering, Looked After Children, Care Leavers and Children with Disabilities. You will undertake a wide range of statutory and non-statutory roles including S17, S47, CIN, CP, LAC and Court work, both private and public proceedings.

Caseloads are varied and requires professional curiosity, commitment, and creativity. There are opportunities to develop your skills further and a high level of supervision is provided to enable you to have the skills and confidence to deliver the highest standards of social work to our families, young people, and children. The Team is diverse and with a wide variety of experience and is committed to supporting each other and offers group supervision sessions monthly to develop a positive and supportive team culture.

The caseloads are allocated based on a social worker’s experience, complexity and where possible the interests of the Social Worker. There is a caseload weighting system that allows consideration for the complexity of the case, time commitments and needs of the Social Worker, with ASYEs having a protected caseload. We are committed to growing our own Social Work teams, hence focusing on development, and creating opportunities for Social Workers to have a long career in Hounslow.

You will receive regular, reflective supervision from experienced Social Work Managers and there is training through the London Alliance and through the local Safeguarding Partnership. As you progress through your career there is support for training for managers such as Level 3 and 5 Leadership, as well as coaching and mentoring schemes.

Our flexible and remote working arrangements allow our workforce to balance work with family and other personal commitments.

We would welcome applications from Social Workers at all stages of their careers and those currently awaiting their social work qualifications.

Key Responsibilities:

Your primary focus will be safeguarding vulnerable children and young people in the London Borough of Hounslow.
Working in partnership with multiple agencies you will manage a caseload which will primarily focus on undertaking the initial assessments with families to consider thresholds and any support required. In addition, your case load will include CIN, CP, LAC cases and Court work.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

Your Skills:

Substantial experience working with children, young people and their families.
Relationship building and direct work skills.
An enthusiasm and passion for the safeguarding of children and young people.
Ability to deliver high quality assessments, care plans and reports and first-class communication and organisation skills.

Professional Qualifications:

You should hold a social work qualification or expect to receive the qualification imminently, be registered with SWE (to ready to seek registration if currently awaiting qualification) and preferably have some statutory experience either through employment or placement.

Essential For The Role:

DBS – Enhanced (3 years) with children barred list check.

We value diversity in its broadest sense. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves, give their best and reach their full potential. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to better understand our communities and deliver the best services for our residents.

We want to receive applications from all regardless of age, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. We want to harness the mix and ensure that everybody can apply and be part of our recruitment processes. We will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact:

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact Natalie Simpson (Team Manager)

Email:

Telephone: 020 8583 4569

(The applications will be reviewed on a regular basis)

Email:

Telephone: 020 8583 4569

(The applications will be reviewed on a regular basis)

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