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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.
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.
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About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Safeguarding & Support Team as an Advanced Social Worker. In this role, you’ll be primarily working on ensuring good outcomes for children and young people in need or at risk through the delivery of timely, high quality social work services and will have the opportunity to develop your skills in your chosen area of specialism.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
In your team you will be working closely with children and their families. You will manage a caseload where children or young people are in Need and subject to Child Protection Plans, LAC and/or Leaving Care. Your role will be to deliver relevant interventions in order to safeguard children and ensure their needs are met whilst also aiming to effect long-term positive change to improve the life experiences of vulnerable children and young people.
Within this role you will work to maintain high standards of professional practice, working at all times in the best interests of children and young people, ensuring that there are clear evidence-based assessments and care plans in place on all allocated cases.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
* You will have considerable experience within statutory social work and have a specialist interest area that you are knowledgeable and passionate about and have the ability to support the learning of less experienced staff.
* You will have the ability to manage a complex caseload working with a high degree of personal accountability and autonomy.
* You will have expertise in a specialist field (agreed with the Departmental Leadership Team) acting as a resource to the team and department to develop practice, engage in research and evaluation of practice.
* You will undertake student supervision and mentoring of less experienced staff and to encourage creativity and innovation when co-working cases whilst ensuring practice is focused on safeguarding and within the Council’s policies and procedures.
* Enhanced DBS check is required.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the role profile.
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:Alison.Billinge@hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone:02085833259
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing Monday 25th August 2025.
About
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:Alison.Billinge@hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone:02085833259
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing Monday 25th August 2025.
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