Sessional Worker

4 weeks ago


London Borough of Hounslow, United Kingdom London Borough of Hounslow Full time

**Salary**

£16.43 per hour - £20.04 per hour (Career Graded)

**Package**

Casual, Zero -Hour contract.

**Date posted**

16/02/2024

**Job reference**

R0006350

**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.

**About The Role**

Working in the Children’s Specialist Service you will be helping to support vulnerable children and families. As a Sessional worker you will be supporting our social work teams and multi-agency professionals in a wide range of activities. This could vary from accompanying a child to an appointment, supervising a child on a community activity or groupwork programme, facilitating contact between a child and their family, developing life skills. Your main goal being positive engagement with the child and or family, helping to develop healthy and positive lifestyle choices and positive family relationships.

Along with the attributes that you bring, training will be provided to give you the opportunity to develop your engagement skills with children and families, basic safeguarding practices, anti-discriminatory practice, data protection principles. We are also offering career progression and an enhanced rate of pay after a period of continuous service and completion of training or a recognised trade or skill that can be shared in structured sessions.

We are seeking motivated individuals with a real interest in supporting vulnerable children and families in the Borough to achieve positive outcomes in their lives.

This is a zero-hour contract role, flexible within the week with the option to work as many or as few hours as you can commit to.

**About The Team You’ll Be Working In**

As a member of our sessional staff team you will be supporting the work of social work teams, health and social care professionals and multi-agency colleagues within the Children’s Specialist Service to improve the lives of children and families in Hounslow.

Reporting to the Centre Manager you will be matched to specific tasks and assignments which could include some of the following;
- Supervising children on a range of community activities.
- To coach, mentor and motivate families to engage attendance and participation on identified programmes and activities.
- To support children and families to ensure contact sessions are as positive as possible for all participants.
- To assist with transport of children to and from agreed venues as needed.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date recording of sessions, and provide feedback as needed.
- To share your skills and expertise to help engage and motivate children and develop their potential.
- Ability to actively engage and communicate with young people and families.
- A desire to help individuals learn new skills and develop their potential.
- An understanding of why Equal Opportunities and Customer Care are important when working with children and families.
- Well organised with the ability to work on own initiative and accept advice and supervision.
- A commitment to training.

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:
**Telephone: 0208 583 6356**

**Interviews for these roles will be held regularly in the form of open days, we will contact you to confirm a date.



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