Advanced Social Worker
LB Hounslow
PO4/PO5 – £46,041 – £51,116
Hours per Week: 36
Nature of Employment: Permanent
DBS Required: Enhanced
Location: Hounslow House, 7 Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3EB
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
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to part of our safeguarding and support service as a Advanced Social Work Practitioner. In this role you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in facilitating the learning of others and contributing to the development of the work force through modelling excellence, mentoring and coaching. You will have developed or develop your own specialism and lead the team in an agreed area of practice. You will work as a lead professionals and undertake work autonomously with the most challenging and high-risk cases providing an exemplary service in line with statutory requirements and departmental priorities. You will be responsible for the monthly team group supervisions to develop good practice, and to reflect and advise on complex and high-risk cases.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The Safeguarding and Support Teams work with families and children from Child in Need through to Adoption. There is scope for a varied caseload that 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. At full capacity the Team comprises of a Team Manager, 2 Assistant Team Managers, 2 Advance Practitioners, and 11 Social Workers, and four student social workers. The Team is committed to supporting each other and offer group supervision sessions monthly to develop a positive and supportive team culture.
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 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.
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
If you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: Blessing.Ruzengwe@hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 0777 3185586
Closing date is Sunday 31st January 2024.
Click here to apply.
