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 the Through Care Team as an Assistant Team Manager. In this role, you’ll be providing management oversight and support to a number of social workers within the team, to ensure we are delivering an excellent service to Children in Care. You will also work closely alongside the other Assistant Team Managers, Team Manager and other services with Corporate Parenting. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in management, Looked After Children and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking young people.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
Hounslow Children’s Services are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Assistant Team Manager to join our Through Care team. The team works with Looked After Children and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. We promote relationship-based practice and work with families and other professionals to achieve permanence and support independence. Direct work and hearing the child's voice is essential in our work.
The London Borough of Hounslow Through Care Team is a vibrant, dedicated and stable and supportive team with five experienced managers and 15 social workers. Social workers in the team have manageable caseloads that allow them to do meaningful work with the children and young people.
Ofsted said that social workers in Hounslow are very motivated and they are working hard to get the best outcomes for children. Social workers told inspectors that they feel well supported by their line managers and have regular supervision and access to training.
Ofsted said that social workers in Hounslow are very motivated and they are working hard to get the best outcomes for children. Social workers told inspectors that they feel well supported by their line managers and have regular supervision and access to training.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
- You must be able to work as part of a team, be approachable and excellent at communication.
- A sound understanding of working with Looked After Children
- Good IT and organisational skills, managing multiple demands at any one time.
- The ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with the multi-agency network.
- Identify and support social workers with appropriate responses to safeguard children and young people.
- At least 4 years’ experience as a child and family social worker.
- Enhanced DBS check is required.
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:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0208 5833141
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 21st 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: [email protected]
Telephone: 0208 5833141
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 21st July 2025.
