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

The London Borough of Hounslow and the Hounslow Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) are seeking to recruit a Training and Development Manager to join us on a permanent, full-time basis, working 36 hours per week.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a professional with significant experience and expertise in safeguarding children practice with an interest and ideally some experience in learning and professional development to join a forward-thinking organisation and shape how professional development and practice is undertaken throughout the Children’s Social Care Department and across our multi-agency partners in Hounslow.

The extensive level of skills and experience you’ll bring to this role will be key to the success of our Training Strategy and development plan, ensuring professionals can develop and improve outcomes for children and young people in our Borough. You will develop and implement a training programme that meets individual, departmental, and organisational learning needs, with a focus on key strategic safeguarding priorities.

If you’re drawn to the idea of working in a creative, cross departmental and multi-agency environment alongside a dedicated and supportive team, developing your skillset while helping others to advance theirs, the role is for you.

Key Responsibilities:

To lead the process of commissioning and coordinating the interagency safeguarding training programme for Hounslow Children’s Specialist Services and HSCP.
To work proactively with all agencies to ensure that learning needs across the Department are identified for all relevant staff, especially in areas of skills development and good practice, and address via appropriate training.
To take a key role in the evaluation of all safeguarding training whether commissioned or delivered by member agencies, to ensure that safeguarding training is of the highest quality possible and in line with Government Guidance.
To lead on the development of interagency collaborative practice, noting current developments in good practice, including those identified by research, local or national case review. This may be through specific project development and may include an annual HSCP conference.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

You will be working in Safeguarding & Quality Assurance under the Workforce Development Team, collaborating with Hounslow Safeguarding Partnership. The primary focus is on building the knowledge and skills of our workforce, leading to provision of safe and high-level interventions with children, young people, and families. Hounslow is committed to our ‘Grow your own’ strategy with a strong focus on building on Hounslow talent to work alongside our career development and succession plan.

About You

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

Ability to provide high quality, reflective, analytical, and evidence-based training to develop practice to the highest professional standards to achieve excellent outcomes with and for children, young people and their families.
Ability to demonstrate professional thinking and research skills in children’s safeguarding and care and to implement this across the service.
Ability to manage resources within budgetary constraints, securing best value and cost effectiveness.
Ability to analyse information from a range of quality assurance mechanisms including performance data and audits, producing reports of a high quality for HSCB and senior managers.

Qualifications:

Professional Social Work qualification: CQSW, DipSW, CCETSW approved equivalent, Social Work degree.
Social Worker England registration and good standing with the registering body.
Managerial experience.

Essential For The Role:

Enhanced DBS

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

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:

Email:

Telephone: 0208 573 4569

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 27th May 2024.

Email:

Telephone: 0208 573 4569

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 27th May 2024.

London Borough of Hounslow

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