At a Glance
- Tasks: Support children and families facing challenges, improving their resilience and wellbeing.
- Company: Join the London Borough of Hounslow, a diverse and inclusive council.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic team committed to equality and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable families in your community.
- Qualifications: Experience working with children and families, strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 32243 - 39408 £ per year.
To work with children and families to address multiple and complex needs, improving family functioning and resilience, reducing the need for statutory interventions. To develop, deliver and evaluative creative, robust and outcomes led packages of intervention and support for children, young people and their families, based on whole family assessment. To provide an integrated response to meeting the needs of parents, children and young people through collaborative working with colleagues, partner agencies, young people and their families/carers. To contribute to the success of Hounslow's Families First Programme by working competently with families who meet the national Troubled Families criteria.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
Our Family Help Team provides targeted and statutory support to families with children and young people aged 0-18 (up to 25 with additional needs). We work with families facing a range of challenges, including parenting, wellbeing and school-related issues, using Child in Need (CIN) and Team Around the Family (TAF) plans. The team brings together Social Workers and Family Support Practitioners to deliver coordinated support that helps improve outcomes and prevent problems from escalating.
Responsibilities
Your primary focus will be supporting vulnerable children and young people in the London Borough of Hounslow. As a Family Support Practitioner, you’ll assess and support our families in need.
Professional Qualifications:
- You should hold substantial experience of working with children of school age.
- Substantial experience working with children, young people and their families.
- Relationship building and direct work skills.
- An enthusiasm and passion for the safeguarding of children and young people.
- Ability to deliver high quality assessments, care plans and reports and first-class communication and organisation skills.
Essential for the Role:
- DBS - Enhanced (3 years) with children barred list check.
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.
Family Support Practitioner employer: London Borough of Hounslow
The Heathland School in Hounslow is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive and inclusive work culture that values diversity and fosters professional growth. With a commitment to the development of its staff, the school provides numerous opportunities for training and advancement, making it an ideal place for those looking to make a meaningful impact in education while working in a vibrant community.
Contact Details:
London Borough of Hounslow Recruitment Team
