Social Worker inHounslow inHounslow PUBLISHED 30 AUG 2024
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The London Borough of Hounslow Through Care Team is a vibrant, dedicated and stable and supportive team with four experienced managers and 15 social workers.
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
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Through Care Team as a Social Worker.
Hounslow Children’s Services are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic social worker to join our Through Care team. The team works with Looked After Children and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. We promote relationship-based practice and work with families and other professionals to achieve permanence and support independence. Direct work and hearing the child's voice is essential in our work.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The London Borough of Hounslow Through Care Team is a vibrant, dedicated and stable and supportive team with four experienced managers and 15 social workers. Social workers in the team have manageable caseloads that allow them to do meaningful work with the children and young people that we are the Corporate Parent for. The purpose of the team is to achieve permanence for Looked After Children, and promote independence as they grow older. In addition, the team support all Asylum Seeking Young People in Hounslow, including those who are age disputed. The team are also responsible for undertaking age assessments.
About You
- An individual with an enthusiasm for working with children, young people and their families.
- A proven ability to assess needs, risks and identify services for children and young people to access.
- Comfortable working with other agencies and professionals to ensure children and young people’s needs are met.
- Proficient at different IT system,s verbal and written communication and keeping accurate and timely records.
- Experience working with children, young people and their families.
- An enthusiasm and passion for the safeguarding of children and young people.
- Ability to deliver high quality assessment, care plans and reports within strict deadlines.
- First class communication and organisation skills.
Qualifications:
- Social Work qualification.
- Registration with Social Work England.
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 16th September 2024.
Email:
Telephone: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 16th September 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
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Through Care Team as a Social Worker.
Hounslow Children’s Services are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic social worker to join our Through Care team. The team works with Looked After Children and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. We promote relationship-based practice and work with families and other professionals to achieve permanence and support independence. Direct work and hearing the child's voice is essential in our work.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The London Borough of Hounslow Through Care Team is a vibrant, dedicated and stable and supportive team with four experienced managers and 15 social workers. Social workers in the team have manageable caseloads that allow them to do meaningful work with the children and young people that we are the Corporate Parent for. The purpose of the team is to achieve permanence for Looked After Children, and promote independence as they grow older. In addition, the team support all Asylum Seeking Young People in Hounslow, including those who are age disputed. The team are also responsible for undertaking age assessments.
About You
- An individual with an enthusiasm for working with children, young people and their families.
- A proven ability to assess needs, risks and identify services for children and young people to access.
- Comfortable working with other agencies and professionals to ensure children and young people’s needs are met.
- Proficient at different IT system,s verbal and written communication and keeping accurate and timely records.
- Experience working with children, young people and their families.
- An enthusiasm and passion for the safeguarding of children and young people.
- Ability to deliver high quality assessment, care plans and reports within strict deadlines.
- First class communication and organisation skills.
Qualifications:
- Social Work qualification.
- Registration with Social Work England.
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 16th September 2024.
Email:
Telephone: 02
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 16th September 2024.
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