Family Support Practitioner X 3

About Us

At Hounslow London Borough, we strive to provide excellent services to our residents and make lives as good as they can be. We are an outstanding council serving an outstanding borough with visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, built on strong partnerships that transform how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. 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 heart, as articulated in “Harness the Mix.” We serve a diverse community, have a diverse workforce, and are committed to being an inclusive employer. We work to create representation across our workforce and leadership, have thriving employee networks, and offer learning and development programmes to address inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. We are a Disability Confident Employer and make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. You can tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff. Details are provided as part of the application process.

About The Role

Purpose of the Role

Family Support Practitioner

• 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 evaluate 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.

Corporate : Key Accountabilities

Functional

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

This role is placed in the Family Help Team.

About You

Key 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. Do you think you have what it takes?

Your Skills :

Professional Qualifications : Substantial experience of working with children of school age.

Essential For The Role : DBS – Enhanced (3 years) with children barred list check.

We value diversity in its broadest sense and are committed to an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves, give their best, and reach their full potential. We welcome applications from all regardless of age, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. We will make reasonable adjustments to accommodate candidates.

This post is considered customer-facing and falls within the Code of Practice on English language requirements for public sector workers. The council has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure post holders have sufficient command of spoken English for the job requirements.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information about the role is in the Role Profile. If you have questions, please contact us. Interviews will be held during the week commencing 20 / 10 / 2025. Internal candidates should seek line manager approval before applying for this role as a secondment.

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