Social Worker

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. 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 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 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. The Team is diverse, with a wide variety of experience and is committed to supporting each other.

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. We are committed to growing our own Social Work teams, hence focusing on development, and creating opportunities for Social Workers to have a long career in Hounslow.

Hounslow has been awarded Council of the year 2021, were 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. We have resilience groups, well-being days and events, group supervision as well as peer support. In order to ensure that work is consistently being delivered to mitigate against risks, build resilience in families and enable families to meet their own children's needs more effectively. 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. 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 morale purpose to enable families to ensure safety and confidence in their own abilities to look after their children.

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 and to communicate 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

1. Communicate skilfully and confidently in complex or high risk situations. Model and help others to develop communication skills.
2. Sustain and model engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances and capacities, including where there is hostility and risk.
3. 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.
4. Use assessment procedures discerningly so as to inform judgement.
5. Demonstrate skilled use of a range of frameworks for assessment and intervention.
6. Actively support and initiate community groups and networks, including professional ones.
7. Contribute to the development of the organisation's information strategy and systems.
8. Model and help others with appropriate information sharing.
9. Model and help others to manage changing circumstances.
10. Recognise and appropriately manage the authority inherent in your position.
11. Maintain awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps. Establish a network of internal and external colleagues from whom to seek advice and expertise.

Qualifications:

Social Work qualification.

Registration with the 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:

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Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 23 rd October 2024.

Closing date is 21 st October 2024.

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