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 here.
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our SISP Team (Specialist Intensive Support Programme ) as a Team Manager within a job share. In this role, you’ll be primarily working on managing the team and will have the opportunity to develop your skills with working alongside our experienced Team Manager already in place .
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The Specialist Intensive Support Programme (SISP) A Systemic Approach to working with children and families SISP is long established standalone multidisciplinary team having provided a wide range of services to children and their families in the London Borough of Hounslow for over ten years. It is positioned within Children’s Specialist Services.
The team offers specialist interventions to families by undertaking independent parenting assessments court directed or under pre proceedings, psychological assessments, parenting support and therapeutic services led by the team’s highly specialist systemic family therapist.
The team includes a range of evidence-based practices and disciplines, including Parent Assess assessments, Together and Apart Assessment, child and adult psychology, systemic family psychotherapy and social work.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
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!
- To ensure the SISP Team delivers high-quality services for children at risk of harm, children in need and children in care, in accordance with legal requirements, government initiatives and the council’s policies and procedures.
- Manages a range of assessments, Family Group Conferences, LAC prevention and rehabilitation services provided by the SISP Team for all children referred to the service and who are in need, at risk of significant harm, edge of care and/or have a plan of reunification with their family.
- To work with a range of professionals, the legal team, and others to ensure high quality and evidence-based court assessments.
- To assist and support the Head of Service in managing the delivery of excellent childcare practice through the effective management and supervision of a multi-disciplinary professional team.
Essential for the Role
- Recognised Social Work Qualification.
- Registered with Social Work England.
- Enhanced DBS check is required for the role.
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: Erin.Otoole@hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 02085833327
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 20th December 2024.
