Social Worker

Salary

£41,133 - £49,056 per annum.

Package

Fixed term / Secondment - 12 Months, Full - time, 36 hours per week.

Job category/type

Children's Social Care

Date posted

25/11/2025

Job reference

R0007133

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 for the post for a Social Worker in the Fostering Team and you will be a part of Corporate Parenting and safeguarding. The role is for a fixed term contract of 12 months.

About The Team You'll Be Working In

The primary focus of the role will be recruiting, assessing, supervising, monitoring and motivating main stream Foster carers, kinship and Private fostering arrangements to meet the requirements of the Fostering Standards and National Minimum Fostering Standards.

Provide guidance, supervision and support to empower our carers to achieve excellent outcomes for children in our care.

To also carry out any other general duties in line with wider fostering team.

About You

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

• Experience of working with children and young people and a comprehensive knowledge of legislation relating to Looked After Children and young people.

• Ability to work directly with wider public, Foster carers and young people and able to produce clear evidence based and analytical assessments.

• Apply knowledge from a range of theories and models for social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities, and the methods derived from them.

• Understand legal obligations, structures and behaviours within organisations and how these impact on policy, procedure and practice.

• Evidence of continuous professional development.

• Demonstrate professionalism in terms of presentation, demeanour, reliability, honesty and respectfulness.

• Self motivated and ability to working to deadlines.

• Good IT and communication skills with good interpersonal skills and ability to develop a rapport with other professionals and foster carers.

• Flexibility to work evenings and occasional weekends, as the role also includes attending recruitment events and home visits outside of office hours.

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

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:

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 17th December 2025.

Internal Candidates - please seek your line manager's approval before applying for this role as a Secondment.