Social Worker

London Borough of Hounslow; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The London Borough of Hounslow is seeking a committed Social Worker for its Early Help/Frontdoor Team. This role focuses on safeguarding children, providing critical interventions, and maintaining high professional standards. Successful candidates will demonstrate effective communication and ethical decision-making skills in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate with children and families with compassion.
• Ability to provide professional opinions and explain reasoning.
• Enhanced DBS check is required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver screening advice and intervention based on risk analysis.
• Maintain high standards of professional practice.
• Ensure evidence-based assessments and care plans for cases.

Skills

Communication

Crisis Management

Problem Solving

Ethical Decision Making

Job description

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 our Early Help/Frontdoor Team as a Social Worker. In this role, you’ll be primarily working to deliver screening advice and intervention via an in depth analysis of risk and robust threshold application.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The key purpose of the Early Help Team is to ensure a high standard of safeguarding of children by making sure that the appropriate intervention goes in at the right time, in line with the Local Authorities’ Early Help strategy. We have a good early help offer and work in collaboration with statutory partners and voluntary agencies in the community. Supporting families to access these services and support is also part of our daily moral purpose to enable families to ensure safety and confidence in their own abilities to look after their children.

Within this role you will work to maintain high standards of professional practice, working at all times in the best interests of children and young people, ensuring that there are clear evidence-based assessments and care plans in place on all allocated cases.

You will be reporting to the Service Manager of the Early Help/Frontdoor team.

About You

Level 2: SOCIAL WORKER

• Ability to communicate with children and with families with compassion and authority in challenging situations and with hard to reach individuals.
• 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 to promote individual’s rights to determine their own solutions, promoting problem-solving skills, whilst recognising how and when self-determination may be constrained (by the law).
• Ability to recognise and manage conflicting values and ethical dilemmas, in practice, using supervision and team discussion, questioning and challenging others, including those from other professions.
• Ability to provide your professional opinion and routinely explain your professional reasoning, judgements and decisions.
  
  

Level 3: SENIOR PRACTITIONER

• Communicate skilfully and confidently in complex or high risk situations. Model and help others to develop communication skills.
• Sustain and model engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances and capacities, including where there is hostility and risk.
• Be able to gather information quickly and effectively so as to inform judgement for interventions including in crises, and in response to challenge, or in the absence of complete information.
• Use assessment procedures discerningly so as to inform judgement.
• Demonstrate skilled use of a range of frameworks for assessment and intervention.
• Actively support and initiate community groups and networks, including professional ones.
• Contribute to the development of the organisation’s information strategy and systems.
• Model and help others with appropriate information sharing.
• Model and help others to manage changing circumstances.
• Recognise and appropriately manage the authority inherent in your position.
• Maintain awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps. Establish a network of internal and external colleagues from whom to seek advice and expertise.
• Enhanced DBS check is required.
  
  

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:[e-mail]

Telephone:[phone]

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 7th July 2025.

About

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:[e-mail]

Telephone:[phone]

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 7th July 2025.