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 Children’s Safeguarding and Support Services Departmental Leadership Team, as Head of Safeguarding & Support. We require an experienced social work qualified professional to take forward the strategic and operational agenda for our teams responsible for safeguarding and permanency. You will oversee a service that is focussed on timely assessments and purposeful interventions, ensuring that permanence is achieved for children without delay. You will drive forward an agenda of keeping children within their family network where it is safe to do so, ensuring the service continues to evolve in line with national social care reforms.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The post is graded at HMG1 and will have operational and strategic responsibility for the following teams:
- Intake (child protection investigations and assessments)
- Safeguarding & Support X2 (child protection plans and care proceedings)
- Specialist Intensive Support Programme (multi-disciplinary team undertaking specialist parenting assessments and LAC prevention, including our GROW project working with parents to avoid repeated care proceedings, and FGCs)
- Adoption & Permanence Team (kinship assessments and permanence planning)
The postholder will be required to maintain the service but will also have an opportunity for innovation where it can be shown to support good outcomes for children.
In addition, the postholder will be required to take a leading role in service-related projects such as the delivery of aspects of national social care reforms.
About You
Successful candidates will have a professional social work qualification and will have extensive experience of working with a range of agencies and providing leadership and management within children’s social care. Good communication skills, both written and verbal, are an essential requirement for the role. They should be able to demonstrate excellent technical knowledge and experience of sound financial control.
If the points above resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application via the London Borough of Hounslow website.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile attached for your consideration.
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 email [email protected]
Closing date for the submission of your application is Wednesday 3rd September 2025.
Interviews dates for this job will take place on Friday 12th September 2025.
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 email [email protected]
Closing date for the submission of your application is Wednesday 3rd September 2025.
Interviews dates for this job will take place on Friday 12th September 2025. 
