We offer competitive salaries with the opportunity to apply for career progression for the following roles:
- Newly qualified social worker - From £38,364 to £39,264
- Social worker - From £38,364 to £46,041
- Senior practitioner - From £41,808 £46,041
- Advanced social worker practitioner - From £46,041 to £52,116
- Assistant team managers - From £49,083 to £54,129
- Team managers - From £57,201 to £62,748
We also offer:
- Market supplement payments: For certain social work staffing groups and posts we offer additions to basic pay. These are subject to annual performance review.
- Relocation expenses: Up to £8,000 for candidates who meet the criteria.
- A range of other benefits with working for the council.
Teams you could work with
Our services and teams provide different opportunities for working in children's social care.
MASH is a triage service and is often the first point of contact for social care referrals.
The team delivers an information gathering and co-ordination service to identify the most appropriate outcome for children and families who have been referred to us.
Our intake team is responsible for undertaking assessments for children who meet the threshold for children’s social care.
Social workers work with professionals to make a judgment if interventions are needed. They work with the families to develop outcomes with the support of other professionals including the police, schools and health services.
Children and families who require extensive support over a longer period are transferred to the safeguarding and support service.
Our safeguarding and support service is responsible for implementing 'child in need' and 'children protection' plans. This involves building relationships with children and families to achieve positive changes aimed at keeping the child safe within the family.
The service takes the lead in care proceedings when children cannot be safely cared for within their family home.
The corporate parenting service supports children through the most difficult part of their lives, including being separated from their families. It works closely with the corporate parenting board and the children in care councils.
The service has pledged to listen to children’s voices.
The through care team supports children who can’t go home to their families.
The main priority is ensuring that all young people are appropriately placed and their individual needs are met.
The late entry team focuses on young people who enter care at the age of 14 and older. They specialise in supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people.
The team leads in care proceedings for young people age 14 and above.
The aim of the leaving care service is to make sure young people get the best possible transition into adulthood.
It supports young people to lead independent lives after leaving social care.
Where children are not able to live safely in their family homes, the fostering and adoption service works with social work teams to provide children with a safe and stable alternative home.
The fostering team is responsible for the recruitment, training and assessment of prospective foster carers. They also provide supervision, support, and training to approved foster carers and kinship carers.
Read more about fostering in Hounslow
The adoption and permanence team is responsible for the assessment of adopters, kinship carers and special guardians.
It offers support including:
- therapeutic support for children
- facilitating training and support groups for adopters
- services for adopted adults
It also supports parents after they adopt and facilitates contact between children and members of their birth families.
The quality assurance service provides:
- independent reviewing officers, who chair child protection conferences and children’ looked after reviews, providing advice on safeguarding
- child in need reviewers, who focus on children who receive support under a 'child in need' plan. They work collaboratively with social work teams and partner agencies to improve the service we offer to children in need of help and support
Current roles
For current opportunities in children's services, visit our jobs site and select 'Children's Social Care' from the job category menu.
