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

The postholder will be responsible for driving transformation as considering value for money in planning, commissioning, service redesign and capacity building for Children’s Commissioning and North West London.
The postholder will lead on commissioning of services for children, young people and their families in accordance with Hounslow’s Children and Young People’s Plan and aligned with NWL.
The postholder will work with colleagues to commission the services for children that relate to early years and short break for the Council and NWL.
The postholder will support the implementation of whole systems integrated health and social care for children in Hounslow.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

To take a pro-active approach in engaging and liaising with stakeholders that supports the identification and sharing best practice in commissioning and service design for services for children, young people and their families.
To support the commissioned services that demonstrates value for money through monitoring, managing and delivery of agreed outcomes and benefits.
To ensure projects are delivered within the agreed timescales and are cost effective and fellow the required governance and are documented in accordance with both organisations processes and procedures.
To write clearly and concisely, particularly when writing specifications and business cases. You must also have the ability to present complex visions and ideas in a simple effective way to stakeholders.

About You

You have significant knowledge of the Children’s Social Care sector and experience of developing and delivering a variety of complex projects in a public sector setting.
You have a collaborative approach to problem solving, can operate effectively through prioritisation, delegation of tasks and organisation of available resources.
You communicate effectively with a range of audiences, including elected members and colleagues of all levels of seniority; you will have used this to engage with stakeholders and ensure their needs are met.
You are committed to the public service ethos and putting residents first; but can balance this with an emotional resilience and commercial awareness, to operate efficiently in an austere financial environment.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Qualifications:

Although relevant experience is the key for tis post, graduate level qualification or relevant professional experience is desirable.

Essential For The Role:

Enhanced DBS

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:

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Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 14th July 2025.

Email:

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 14th July 2025.

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