Social Work Assistant inHounslow inHounslow PUBLISHED
WED 8 JAN 2025
London Borough of Hounslow r1dJPBT
Supportive Work Environment, The team prioritizes well-being with regular supervision and reflective conversations to help staff grow.
Career Progression Opportunities, Clear structures for career development, including pathways to Social Work apprenticeships and beyond.
Diversity and Inclusion Commitment, A strong emphasis on equality, diversity, and representation to create an inclusive workplace for all employees.
Flexible Work Arrangements, Options for remote work allow staff to balance personal commitments while maintaining their professional responsibilities.
Collaborative Team Culture, Work alongside dedicated colleagues and partner agencies to provide holistic care assessments and achieve the best outcomes for residents.
Impactful Role, The opportunity to directly improve the lives of residents by assisting in care management and safeguarding their rights and well-being.
The London Borough of Hounslow is seeking a dedicated Social Work Assistant to join their Feltham and Great West Road Locality teams. This role involves conducting Social Care Assessments and providing Care Management support to help residents and carers identify their needs and develop tailored Care Plans. The position emphasises collaboration with a range of stakeholders, including care providers and health services, to promote safety and safeguard the well-being of vulnerable adults while adhering to the Council's commitments to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Candidates should possess experience working with vulnerable adults and demonstrate strong communication and partnership skills to ensure effective assessments and support. The council supports career progression, offering opportunities for further training such as a Social Work apprenticeship. Flexible and remote working arrangements are also available, fostering a healthy balance between work and personal commitments while supporting the council's diverse community.
Candidates should possess experience working with vulnerable adults and demonstrate strong communication and partnership skills to ensure effective assessments and support. The council supports career progression, offering opportunities for further training such as a Social Work apprenticeship. Flexible and remote working arrangements are also available, fostering a healthy balance between work and personal commitments while supporting the council's diverse community.
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 Feltham and Great West Road Locality teams are looking for Social Work Assistants to join a stable and dedicated team of social workers and social work assistants. The teams value the contribution that everyone makes to improve life circumstances of the residents of the London Borough of Hounslow. The locality teams are long term teams working with a variety of social care assessments to meet resident’s needs.
The well-being of the team is paramount creating an environment that is supportive, through offering regular supervision and encouraging reflective conversations. You will be provided with support and guidance from colleagues and managers.
The London Borough of Hounslow has a clear career progression structure. You have the opportunity once settled in post to consider applying for the Social Work apprenticeship scheme for example.
Our flexible and remote working arrangements allow our workforce to balance work with family and other personal commitments.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
You will be instrumental in carrying out Social Care Assessments providing Care Management support by assisting residents and carers to identify their needs and desired outcomes. Helping them to formulate a Care Plan/Support Plan and, where indicated, to use their Personal Budget to set up individually tailored services to achieve desired outcomes.
You will be key in protecting the Human Rights of our residents and carers as much as working with them to promote their safety in line with the Council’s and Pan London Safeguarding Policy. You will be instrumental in formulating protection plans and supporting safeguarding enquiries.
You will work collaboratively with key stakeholders, care providers, housing, financial services, health, volunteer sector and religious institutions to name a few. There is an expectation that you will have due regard for Equality Diversity of our residents, partners and colleagues.
About You
Essential For The Role:
Enhanced DBS
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
Email:
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 Jo Garside (Team Manager):
Telephone: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 3rd February 2025.
Email:
Telephone: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 3rd February 2025.
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 Feltham and Great West Road Locality teams are looking for Social Work Assistants to join a stable and dedicated team of social workers and social work assistants. The teams value the contribution that everyone makes to improve life circumstances of the residents of the London Borough of Hounslow. The locality teams are long term teams working with a variety of social care assessments to meet resident’s needs.
The well-being of the team is paramount creating an environment that is supportive, through offering regular supervision and encouraging reflective conversations. You will be provided with support and guidance from colleagues and managers.
The London Borough of Hounslow has a clear career progression structure. You have the opportunity once settled in post to consider applying for the Social Work apprenticeship scheme for example.
Our flexible and remote working arrangements allow our workforce to balance work with family and other personal commitments.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
You will be instrumental in carrying out Social Care Assessments providing Care Management support by assisting residents and carers to identify their needs and desired outcomes. Helping them to formulate a Care Plan/Support Plan and, where indicated, to use their Personal Budget to set up individually tailored services to achieve desired outcomes.
You will be key in protecting the Human Rights of our residents and carers as much as working with them to promote their safety in line with the Council’s and Pan London Safeguarding Policy. You will be instrumental in formulating protection plans and supporting safeguarding enquiries.
You will work collaboratively with key stakeholders, care providers, housing, financial services, health, volunteer sector and religious institutions to name a few. There is an expectation that you will have due regard for Equality Diversity of our residents, partners and colleagues.
About You
- You will have experience of working with vulnerable adults and have competent written and verbal communication skills to be able to deliver timely, person centred and robust assessments, carry out reviews and close cases.
- You will have strong partnership working skills, working with colleagues, partner agencies, voluntary sector etc. to ensure a holistic assessment is completed.
- You will be driven to promoting independence, positive risk-taking including person centred Personalised Budgets.
- You will have an awareness of the Care Act 2.
- You will be able to reflect on your practice, participating in decisions where needed to learn from good practice and areas where things could have been done differently.
Essential For The Role:
Enhanced DBS
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
Email:
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 Jo Garside (Team Manager):
Telephone: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 3rd February 2025.
Email:
Telephone: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 3rd February 2025.
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1. Can you tell us about your background and what led you to pursue a career as a Social Work Assistant?
2. What interests you most about working for the London Borough of Hounslow specifically?
3. Could you describe your experience working with vulnerable adults? What specific challenges have you encountered?
4. The council has a strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. How would you uphold these values in your everyday work?
5. Reflecting on your previous experiences, can you identify a situation where you learned from a mistake? What did you learn, and how did you apply that learning moving forward?
1. Can you tell us about your background and what led you to pursue a career as a Social Work Assistant?
2. What interests you most about working for the London Borough of Hounslow specifically?
3. Could you describe your experience working with vulnerable adults? What specific challenges have you encountered?
4. The council has a strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. How would you uphold these values in your everyday work?
5. Reflecting on your previous experiences, can you identify a situation where you learned from a mistake? What did you learn, and how did you apply that learning moving forward?
Useful skills for a Social Work Assistant:
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To work as a Social Work Assistant in the UK, you should possess a range of skills and personal qualities. Here are some of the key skills required for this role:
1. Communication Skills: Effective verbal and written communication is essential for interacting with clients, their families, and other professionals. Being able to listen actively and convey information clearly is critical.
2. Empathy and Compassion: Understanding and responding to the challenges faced by individuals and families is key. A strong sense of empathy helps in building trusting relationships.
3. Organisational Skills: Social Work Assistants often need to manage various cases and tasks simultaneously, so being able to prioritise and maintain accurate records is important.
4. Problem-Solving Skills: The ability to think critically and creatively about solutions to clients' challenges is crucial in supporting social workers and clients effectively.
5. Teamwork: Working alongside social workers, other professionals, and community groups requires the ability to collaborate effectively and contribute positively to a team environment.
6. Cultural Competence: An understanding of and sensitivity to diverse cultural backgrounds and the ability to work respectfully with individuals from different communities.
7. Interpersonal Skills: Building rapport with clients and fostering positive relationships with colleagues, service users, and external agencies.
8. Resilience and Emotional Stability: The job can be challenging, so maintaining personal well-being and resilience in the face of difficulties is important.
9. Understanding of Social Issues: A basic knowledge of social work principles, policies, and relevant legislation, as well as an awareness of the challenges faced by vulnerable populations.
10. Administrative Skills: Competence in managing paperwork, using databases, and possibly familiarity with IT systems relevant to social work.
Additionally, while formal qualifications may not always be necessary to become a Social Work Assistant, having a relevant qualification such as a Level 2 or Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care can be advantageous. Some roles may also require you to have experience in social care or a related field.
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