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 our Adoption and Permmanace Team as an Assistant Team Manager . In this role, you’ll be primarily working on Special Guardianship and Kinship assessments, to find an appropriate permanent carer for our most vulnerable children. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in understanding the impact of trauma and loss on a child and considering what understanding and skills any potential carer needs in order to raise a child that has had a unique experience. You will also need to understand what we need to know to so we can be assured tgar they are prepared for this responsibility. About The Team You’ll Be Working In Currently the team consist of a Team Manager, 4 SG and Kinship assessing social workers. 1.5 panel administrator/ADM admin and 1 BSO. The team is small but diverse in terms of ethnicity, experience. The team is close knit, stable, experienced and engage well with each other as well as with the management team. They enjoy their work and take pride in producing robust quality assessments. About You What is important for the assistant team manager to know is that despite the team appearing on the surface to have a low case load, the assessments require a lot time, effort, gathering of evidence and intense, close working relationship with the adults we assess. Reflection and biases need to be fully explored within the supervsion process. There needs to be level of confidence in being able to be a predictive social worker to understand not only the future needs of any child but also how the relationship between the child and adult(s) is likely to progress over time. To ensure the Adoption and Permanence Team continues to deliver high quality special guardianship and kinship placements for Hounslow Children. Manage the services provided by the Adoption and Permanence Team to children needing to permanency planning and assessments of connected persons either as Kinship carers or as Special Guardians. To assist and support the Team Manager and Head of Service in managing the delivery of excellent childcare practice through the effective management and supervision of a team Social Work professionals. If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application: Applicants should hold a Social Work Qualification. Applicants should be enthused about working with Adults and help them understand the needs of our most vulnerable children. Applicants should be well organised and should have good IT and written skills. Applicants should have experience of working with cases that are subject to a legal PLO framework. Applicants should be able to establish good working relationships with adults and professionals. Qualification: At least 3 years post qualified and want management experience. Essential For The Role Enhanced DBS check is required for the role. Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile. 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: Telephone: 0208 5833273 Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 17th June 2025. Email: Telephone: 0208 5833273 Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 17th June 2025.. Location : Hounslow, England, United Kingdom