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.
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and self-motivated person to undertake the role of a CRS Co-Ordinator for the Community Recovery Service.
The Hounslow Community Recovery Service marks an exciting step towards health and social care working together.
The Community Recovery Service is an integrated service with Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust and aims to support people’s independence following an injury, illness or a change in life circumstances and living at home. The team provides a period of rehabilitation and reablement to help local people in Hounslow recover and regain their independence. It brings together different health and social care professionals into a single integrated team.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop skills in partnership working, performance management, mentoring and providing supervision of CRS Assessors and Rehab Assistants. You will be given the opportunity to be creative in this role, developing strategies and practices improving ways of working. You will receive significant support from the Deputy Manager.
You will need to work flexibly, to support vulnerable residents, their carers and staff in order to meet the needs of the service, a seven-day service 8.00 a.m. to 22.00 p.m.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Lead and manage resources ensuring efficiency and effective delivery of a high-quality professional service.
2. To promote a philosophy of putting customer needs first.
3. Experience of managing and motivating a team.
4. Knowledge of relevant Social Care legislation and policy.
Your Skills:
1. To manage and develop staff.
2. Good Communication and I.T. skills.
3. Good writing and analytical skills.
4. Ability to work flexibly.
Professional Qualifications:
NVQ 4 and above or willingness to achieve qualification.
Essential for the Role
Enhanced DBS check is required for the role.
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: Carole.Ore@hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 0203 771 6205
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 27th March 2024.