Advanced Social Worker – Grow Project

Advanced Social Worker – Grow Project

Salary: £46,041 – £52,116 Grade: PO4/PO5

Hours per Week: 36

Nature of Employment: Permanent

DBS Required: Enhanced

Location: Hounslow House, 7 Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3EB.

Job Reference: R0006642

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 service as an Advanced Social Worker, being part of the development and implementation of our new initiative - the Grow Project. This project is a direct response to an increase in the number of parents in the borough who have experienced the loss of a child through care proceedings and are at risk of repeat pregnancies which could result in the removal of more children. The key purpose of the Grow Project is to provide a flexible approach to working with parents to give them the opportunity to take control of their lives, breaking a destructive cycle that causes both them and their children deep trauma, with a view to reducing the numbers of children being removed into care. This is a brand new role and the post holder will have the opportunity to work creatively with colleagues to develop the project.

About the Team You’ll Be Working In

You will join the Specialist Intensive Support Programme (SISP) team and report to the SISP team manager. The team’s vision is to deliver a service to children and families in Hounslow, which is preventative, supportive and therapeutic. The SISP team are motivated, driven and supportive, they strive for excellence and value their members.

The role will entail working directly with parents who have experienced loss of a child under 5 in the previous 5 year through care proceedings. As this is a new initiative, you will have the opportunity to shape the project, along with colleagues, including developing the service specification and referral processes, performance measures, and recording processes, and to be part of the annual evaluation of the effectiveness of the project in reducing repeat care proceedings. You will receive high quality management support from the team manager and head of service, and benefit from working in a multi-disciplinary systemic team setting. There is a strong commitment from the service and the department to ensuring that the project is successful.

At London Borough of Hounslow, we believe in the power of support and the potential for change. If you are driven by a desire to help families heal and thrive and you have the skills and passion to make a lasting difference, we want to hear from you.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

• You will have considerable experience within statutory social work and have a specialist interest in working with parents who have experienced the loss of a child through care proceedings and are at risk of further loss.
• You will have the ability to work with a high degree of personal accountability and autonomy.
• You will be able to work creatively to engage with adults who have experienced loss and have their own complex needs, being able to build effective relationship and work with them to bring about positive change in their lives.
• You will be able to work effectively with partner agencies, bringing about changes in the way services work together to support adults.
• You will Undertake student supervision and mentoring of less experienced staff and to encourage creativity and innovation when co-working cases whilst ensuring practice is focused on safeguarding and within the Council’s policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

You will need to be a qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England and have at least 2 years statutory experience.

Essential for the Role:

Enhanced DBS

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!

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: Erin.O’toole@hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 02085833327

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 14th October 2024.

Closing date is 24th September 2024

Location: Cranford, GB

Posted Date: 9/23/2024