Social Worker x 2 - Intake Team inHounslow inHounslow PUBLISHED 3 MAY 2024

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 Intake Teams remit is varied and gives social workers an opportunity to 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.

Hounslow has been awarded Council of the year 2021, were assessed as being ‘GOOD’ by Ofsted in October 2023 and has a strong learning culture. Our practice framework incorporates Relationship based social work, Strength based working, Safeguarding and Risk Management, Community development and supervision.

Our Advanced Social Work Practitioner group focusses on group supervision, opportunities to develop specialisms and has created a supportive and inspiring learning culture with opportunities to engage in new experiences. 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.

ASYEs are supported by an ASYE coordinator who provides monthly reflective groups in an established ASYE programme. The programme enables ASYEs to take two ASYE reflective days a month, have more frequent individual supervision in the first 6 months of their ASYE and there is appropriate training available to support Social Workers at this stage of their career.

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.



About The Team You’ll Be Working In



The Intake Teams and the MASH team work closely together under one service area. Once a referral has met threshold for an assessment it will be allocated to an Intake Social Worker. This maybe the first contact a family has ever had with social care. We recognise how important it is to consider our engagement, at this time, working directly with vulnerable families and those children in need of protection and support. It is necessary to have good relationships and work closely with our partner agencies to develop a focused approach to improving support and protect to children and their families.

We embrace the Hounslow core values of early prevention, early support and enjoy working closely with our Early Intervention Services to ensure children and families receive added support and assistance, where it is required. The Teams are committed to making a tangible difference for families at the earliest opportunity aiming to prevent unnecessary and ongoing statutory intervention where possible.



About You



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



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.
  
  

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 hig