Social Worker
Salary: £38,364 - £46,041 per annum plus £3000 market supplement every 2 years.
Grade: PO1/PO3
DBS: Enhanced
Nature of Employment: Permanent
Location: Hounslow House, 7 Bath Rd, Hounslow 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.
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. 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 on our website.
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Safeguarding and Support team as a Social Worker. The Safeguarding and Support team’s remit is varied and gives social workers an opportunity to undertake a wide range of statutory and non-statutory roles including S47, CP and Court work, both private and public proceedings.
Caseloads are varied and require 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 deliver the highest standards of social work to our families, young people, and children.
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.
Hounslow has been awarded Council of the year 2021, was 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 and Community development and supervision.
Our flexible and remote working arrangements allow our workforce to balance work with family and other personal commitments.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
We know that social work, whilst rewarding, is not always easy. To support high quality consistent social work, we have a comprehensive learning and development offer, including resilience groups, well-being days and events, group supervision as well as peer support.
Access to family group conferences and mediation work with families is additionally available and supports all involved, to secure decisions and outcomes in children’s best interests.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application
Level 2: Social Worker
* Ability to communicate with children and undertake age appropriate direct work.
* Demonstrate the ability to work within your own organisation and identify and begin to work with the relationship between the organisation, practice and wider changing contexts.
* Ensure practice is underpinned by policy, procedures and code of conduct.
* Ability to recognise and manage conflicting values and ethical dilemmas.
* Ability to provide your professional opinion and routinely explain your professional reasoning, judgements and decisions.
Level 3: Senior Practitioner
1. Communicate skilfully and confidently in complex or high risk situations.
2. Sustain and model engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances.
3. Gather information quickly and effectively to inform judgement for interventions.
4. Use assessment procedures discerningly.
5. Demonstrate skilled use of a range of frameworks for assessment and intervention.
6. Actively support and initiate community groups and networks.
7. Contribute to the development of the organisation’s information strategy and systems.
8. Model and help others with appropriate information sharing.
9. Recognise and appropriately manage the authority inherent in your position.
10. Maintain awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps.
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.
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: Vhenekai.Marita-Bere@Hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: +442085833211
or Alison.Billinge@hounslow.gov.uk
+442085833259
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 23rd October 2024.
Closing date is 21st October 2024.
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