Assistant Team Manager - Adoption and Permanence

London Borough of Hounslow; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading council as an Assistant Team Manager in the Adoption and Permanence Team. You'll work on Special Guardianship and Kinship assessments, supporting vulnerable children and their carers. This role requires a Social Work Qualification and a passion for helping families. You'll collaborate with a dedicated team, ensuring quality placements and managing assessments. If you're organized, enthusiastic, and have the necessary experience, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Employee Benefits

Professional Growth Support

Qualifications

• At least 3 years post-qualification experience and management experience required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high-quality special guardianship and kinship placements.
• Manage services for children requiring permanency planning and assessments.
• Support management in supervising social work professionals.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Relationship Building

IT Skills

Written Communication

Education

Social Work Qualification

Job description

About Us

At Hounslow, we’d love you to join us! 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 that 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.

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 diverse minds. We serve a diverse community, have a diverse workforce, and are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership, with thriving employee network groups and learning and development programmes that help us 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. You can tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to our employees, supporting their well-being and professional growth.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Adoption and Permanence Team as an Assistant Team Manager. In this role, you’ll primarily work on Special Guardianship and Kinship assessments to find appropriate permanent carers for our most vulnerable children. You will develop skills in understanding the impact of trauma and loss on children and what skills potential carers need to support children with unique experiences. You will also assess their readiness for this responsibility.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The team currently comprises a Team Manager, 4 SG and Kinship assessing social workers, 1.5 panel administrators, and 1 Business Support Officer. The team is small, diverse in ethnicity and experience, close-knit, stable, and engaged. They take pride in producing robust, quality assessments and work well together and with management.

About You

We are looking for someone who can:

• Ensure the team continues to deliver high-quality special guardianship and kinship placements.
• Manage services for children requiring permanency planning and assessments of connected persons as Kinship carers or as Special Guardians.
• Support the Team Manager and Head of Service in managing and supervising social work professionals to deliver excellent childcare practice.

If the following points resonate with you, we encourage you to apply:

• You hold a Social Work Qualification.
• You are enthusiastic about working with adults to help them understand the needs of vulnerable children.
• You are well-organized with good IT and written skills.
• You have experience working within a legal PLO framework.
• You can establish good relationships with adults and professionals.

Qualification

At least 3 years post-qualification experience and management experience are required.

Essential For The Role

An Enhanced DBS check is required.

For more details, read the Role Profile. If you don’t meet every requirement, don’t be discouraged—apply anyway! You might be the perfect fit for this or other roles.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

If you have questions, contact us at:

Email: [Insert email]

Telephone: [phone]

Interviews will be held during the week commencing 17th June 2025.