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 a fantastic opportunity to work as part of a collaborative MDT team to support residents who are either approaching the end of their life or are preparing for how to manage their palliative care. This role is based at Meadow House in Ealing Hospital and you will form part of an MDT with colleagues from Health and Social Care to assess Hounslow residents who are open to the palliative care team.
* Most residents who you will assess will have recently received a terminal diagnosis and part of your role will be to support them, along with their family, with the challenges that this brings. You will undertake Care Act assessments to identify the level of support required from the Local Authority to meet their needs. This role has huge potential for the successful applicant to support residents through the most challenging times in their lives. It is a privilege to work with people that are at this stage and your role will also be preventative, in trying to ensure that, where possible, care needs can be met to delay the onset of acute care and support needs.
* You will have the ability, within this role, to develop and maintain relationships with patients, carers and families using the strengths-based approach in order to allow, carers and others involved to adjust to their changing situation.
* To support patients and carers formulate plans for end-of-life care including participation in advanced decisions is about protecting and supporting residents’ human rights. As such, this role is well suited to Social Workers who place human rights at the centre of their work and tirelessly advocate for residents’ wishes to be promoted and respect throughout all stages of their lives.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
1. Completing Care Act assessments and working with people who require support with their palliative care planning.
2. Completing Mental Capacity Assessments.
3. Understanding a strengths-based approach to social work and demonstrating your commitment to human rights through all the work you do.
4. Working effectively as part of an MDT team and contributing to a collaborative environment.
About You
You will have contributed to a positive team culture and be a strong team member, with an emphasis on achieving collective goals and supporting colleagues on a daily basis.
* You will bring experience of delivering positive outcomes for residents that you have worked with and demonstrate examples of where you have upheld human rights.
* You will have sound and detailed knowledge of legislation such as the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Human Rights Act 1998 to ensure compliance with statutory duties that are in place for Adult Social Care services.
* You’ll have to demonstrate your ability to work to tight timescales in a fast-paced environment and be able to flexibly manage your day-to-day priorities.
Qualifications:
Social Work qualification required and/or awaiting certificate from Social Work England. Enhanced DBS will also be required.
Essential for The Role:
Enhanced DBS
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: Richard.Brown@Hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 0208 583 620
For more information and to apply please visit our website via the button below.
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 5th May 2025.
Closing date: 28th April 2025
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