Children in Care Participation Worker inHounslow inHounslow PUBLISHED 18 JUL 2024
London Borough of Hounslow r1dJPBT
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The extensive level of skills and experience you’ll bring to this role will be key to the success of our participation offer.
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 Children in Care participation Worker 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 in youth participation with an interest in enabling children and young people to have a voice, inform and influence positive change in our corporate parenting offer, to join a forward-thinking organisation and shape our participation model.
The extensive level of skills and experience you’ll bring to this role will be key to the success of our participation offer. You can expect a varied and dynamic workload, creatively working with our young people, facilitating inclusive activities, supporting targeted programmes, and preparing for independence.
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 our children and young people to thrive, the role is for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- To work effectively as part of the Council’s Corporate Parenting team, delivering corporate objectives through the work of the participation service for children in care.
- To work alongside specialist teams for children and young people within the borough to empower young people and promote interdisciplinary working.
- To work with partner agencies and other statutory bodies to promote the voice of children in care to a wider audience nationally and within the borough.
- Implement, support and promote systems for involving children and young people in reviewing and influencing policies which affect them. This includes the Children in Care Council.
- Systematically monitor and report young people’s views and experiences of services to managers, policy makers, and elected members and participate in the Corporate Parenting Panel.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
You will be working in Safeguarding & Quality Assurance under the Workforce Development Team, collaborating with multiagency teams.
The primary focus is on building the current corporate parenting offer to ensure that the needs of the children and young people are met.
The team actively encourages creative thinking and providing opportunities to hear, respond and adapt our offer to empower our young people to meet their full potential.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
- Ability to be able to complete flexible working hours to meet the needs of the service.
- Ability to communicate to a high standard, recognize and respond appropriately to trauma responses within young people.
- Ability to manage resources within budgetary constraints, securing best value and cost effectiveness.
- Ability to work with young people and maintain a regular, well-attended youth council, care council and care leavers council.
Qualifications:
- Relevant degree is preferable.
- 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: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 5th August 2024.
Email:
Telephone: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 5th August 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 London Borough of Hounslow and the Hounslow Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) are seeking to recruit a Children in Care participation Worker 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 in youth participation with an interest in enabling children and young people to have a voice, inform and influence positive change in our corporate parenting offer, to join a forward-thinking organisation and shape our participation model.
The extensive level of skills and experience you’ll bring to this role will be key to the success of our participation offer. You can expect a varied and dynamic workload, creatively working with our young people, facilitating inclusive activities, supporting targeted programmes, and preparing for independence.
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 our children and young people to thrive, the role is for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- To work effectively as part of the Council’s Corporate Parenting team, delivering corporate objectives through the work of the participation service for children in care.
- To work alongside specialist teams for children and young people within the borough to empower young people and promote interdisciplinary working.
- To work with partner agencies and other statutory bodies to promote the voice of children in care to a wider audience nationally and within the borough.
- Implement, support and promote systems for involving children and young people in reviewing and influencing policies which affect them. This includes the Children in Care Council.
- Systematically monitor and report young people’s views and experiences of services to managers, policy makers, and elected members and participate in the Corporate Parenting Panel.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
You will be working in Safeguarding & Quality Assurance under the Workforce Development Team, collaborating with multiagency teams.
The primary focus is on building the current corporate parenting offer to ensure that the needs of the children and young people are met.
The team actively encourages creative thinking and providing opportunities to hear, respond and adapt our offer to empower our young people to meet their full potential.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
- Ability to be able to complete flexible working hours to meet the needs of the service.
- Ability to communicate to a high standard, recognize and respond appropriately to trauma responses within young people.
- Ability to manage resources within budgetary constraints, securing best value and cost effectiveness.
- Ability to work with young people and maintain a regular, well-attended youth council, care council and care leavers council.
Qualifications:
- Relevant degree is preferable.
- 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: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 5th August 2024.
Email:
Telephone: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 5th August 2024.
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