Social Worker Practitioner – London Borough of Hounslow

Location: Children’s Social Care – Hounslow

Salary: £47,532.00 to £53,607.00 per annum (National)

Position Type: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 22/06/2025

About The Role We are currently looking for a dedicated and experienced social worker who is ready to take their next career step and becoming an Advanced Social Work Practitioner to join our Dedicated Social Work Team at Feltham Young Offenders Institute. About The Team You’ll Be Working In The Dedicated Social Work Team, based at Feltham Young Offenders Institute, is a small team consisting of three social workers who offer independent support to young people in the establishment and safeguarding advice. The team is passionate about advocating for young people with a strong focus on multi-agency collaboration to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the young people is promoted. As the Advanced Practitioner you will supervise the two social workers. About You – You will have an enthusiasm and passion for working with young people, some of which is likely to be from working with young people who have offended, were at risk of offending, and/or were care experienced. – You will have undertaken statutory social work and have a good understanding of safeguarding children from harm. – You are likely to have some supervision experience through students and/or have a good understanding of how to support and manage social workers. If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application: •Passionate about delivering high quality social work services to children and their families. •Excited about working within a multi-professional environment whilst maintaining high quality services. •An ability and willingness to learn the legislation underpinning work with children within a secure environment and how this statutory framework should be used to deliver services. •Understand the value of quality assurance mechanisms and how they can be used to drive practice. •An understanding of how to engage, motive and support the resilience of a hard-working team. •Enhanced DBS check is required. Applications close on 22/06/2025 For further information and to apply for the role(s) please see here.