Principal Social Worker - Adults

About Us

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.

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.

Are you ready to lead, influence and inspire real change in Adult Social Care?

If yes, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

A rare and highly rewarding position has become available for a Principal Social Worker at Hounslow Council. This is your chance to champion and deliver excellent social care practice, promoting strength based, think family and rights informed approaches and having influence in regional and national conversations in social work. If you re ready to make a lasting postive impact in Hounslow, we’d love to hear from you.

A high functioning service with a strong team ethos always working to the One Hounslow Values.

Responsible for supporting, in partnerships with team managers holding line management responsibilities

• Senior Practitioners leading the community social work programme.
• The delivery of the Assisted and Support Year in Employment programme for newly qualified social workers.

Leadership responsibility for the Training and Development Team, with supervisory responsibility for the Team Manager.

You will be a qualified social worker with substantial experience across all areas of Adult Social Care practice. You will bring strong leadership, strategic thinking, and a commitment to promoting the rights and wellbeing of adults  will be the bridge between the Departments Senior Leadership Team and the Social Care workforce

• Social Work qualification and registration with Social Work England.
• Excellent understanding of Health, and Adult Social Care at an operational and strategic level within a breadth of settings.
• Excellent understanding of quality assurance and evidence-based practice improvement.
• Striving for and achieving excellent standards, working collaboratively to support others to achieve this, using positive influence and coaching.
• Excellent understanding of workforce development, recruitment and retention in Adult Social Care.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory guidance.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and partnership working skills.

Enhanced DBS

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 the 23rd February 2026.