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.
About The Role
We are looking for a dedicated Community Support Worker to join our team. The successful applicant will support local Hounslow residents to access various community‑based activities using person‑centred approaches with clear pathways for residents to progress towards independence. For the right candidate, this is a unique opportunity to take your career to the next level, if you share our passion, we want to hear from you.
This Role is a community‑based role. 80% of your week will be spent in the community supporting people in different settings.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The Community Access Service (CAS) supports people with learning disabilities and autistic spectrum conditions to lead full and purposeful lives.
The service focuses on enabling our service users (residents) to become active citizens in their community, empowering them to achieve their goals and develop their social skills.
We deliver a range of projects, activities/outings and community‑based drop‑ins during the day, evenings and weekends, as well as virtual sessions and online support using Zoom.
Some Of The Co‑produced Opportunities We Provide Include:
* Our Drop‑in and advocacy services
* Animal Care allotment and Farm group
* Arts & Crafts, Cooking, Drama, Dance
* Health and Wellbeing Awareness
* Cultural Awareness of Celebrations & Festivals
* Sports/Athletics, Self‑Defence, Swimming and Yoga
* Social outings – free jumping, amusement parks, cultural visits, companion cycling
* Online Zoom Sessions – cookery, exercise, speaking up groups
The Community Access Service consists of a team of 4 Community Support Workers who report directly to the Community Access Team Leader.
About You
The right person for the role should have:
* Experience of working in supporting people with learning disabilities to explore new opportunities, access local resources and identifying areas which will enable individuals to flourish.
* A good understanding and commitment to safeguarding vulnerable adults/adults at risk.
* An understanding of barriers people with disabilities face in relation to accessing community activities, including public transport, with clear creative and innovative strategies for overcoming these.
* The ability to work flexibly and be self‑motivated, organised, physically fit and can lone work in the community, whilst managing own workload and communicating effectively.
* Relevant Health and Social Care qualification (desirable)
* Maths/ English Grade C or above at GCSE (essential)
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
* The ability to promote independence and choice by coordinating, facilitating, and providing high quality reliable support to individual residents with learning disabilities living in London borough of Hounslow supporting their access and integration into the community.
* Competent in applying the principles of personalisation in the delivery and development of the Community Access Service projects, drop‑ins and sessions, maximising participation of residents in attendance.
* Can support and enable individuals to meet their social needs by providing and developing a wide range of opportunities including volunteer work, access to community resources, leisure and recreation activities, outreach, travel training, sessional activities.
* Can Support Residents to access and be fully integrated into the community as positive role models that celebrates diversity and inclusion.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
Essential For The Role
Enhanced DBS.
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: 07816068538
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 2nd March 2026.
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