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. Read more about these here.

About The Role

Sandbanks Day Centre provides a day care service for adults with autism, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and for older people living with the experience of Dementia. The service provides quality care to Hounslow residents and supports them to participate in meaningful activities which are tailored to meet their needs and wishes. The service empowers residents to meet their full potential, supports them to further develop their independence and ensures their dignity and safety.

We are currently looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Senior Care Worker to supervise a team of Care Workers and support them in the provision of person-centred care to our residents.

In return, you can expect to work in a great and supportive team, receiving full training through our training and induction programme and a competitive package. For the right candidate, this is a unique opportunity to take your career to the next level and to change the lives of people living in the borough. If you share this vision of excellent social care practice, we want to hear from you.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

As a team, we value diversity in its broadest sense. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves, give their best, and reach their full potential. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to better understand our communities and deliver the best services for our residents.

As the Senior Care Worker, your key objectives will be to support the Management team with the ongoing development and continuous improvement of day service provision. You will be responsible for supervising and supporting Care Workers to deliver quality care and support to our residents.

At Sandbanks, we champion a person-centered approach that provides more choice and control, empowering independence in an environment that enables individuals to thrive. You will take the lead with the centre programme, ensuring that there is a range of meaningful and therapeutic activities that are fit for purpose.

Your excellent communication skills and flexible approach will enable you to focus on achieving positive outcomes for our vulnerable residents. You will motivate and empower the staff team to provide a continuously high-quality service that is safe and in line with the Adult Social Care vision.

Essential for The Role:

• Experience in supporting and caring for vulnerable adults in a formal care setting,

• Hold an NVQ/Diploma in Health and Social Care Level 3

• Demonstrable experience of providing supervision and direction to staff

• Day services currently operate Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm

• Enhanced DBS

About You

The top 5 things about you that are most important

1.Be a self-starter with excellent communication skills and the ability to be creative with the day centre programme, proactive and innovative in working to achieve performance-related targets, as well as inspiring others to achieve their goals.

2.Demonstrable experience of working with vulnerable residents in either a statutory or voluntary organisation, including an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding vulnerable adults, managing Health and Safety, and risk assessments.

3.Have a clear understanding of the barriers people with a Learning Disability, Autistic individuals and/or living with the experience of Dementia are faced with and have experience in implementing strategies, to meet their needs in a person-centred way

4.Experience of leading, motivating and supervising a team to secure positive outcomes for vulnerable residents.

5.Ability to understand and implement good practice and promote equal opportunities.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such, it falls within the scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirements for public sector workers. The council, therefore, has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

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

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: Nnenna.Ilonwah@hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 020 8583 4040

Interviews for this job will be held week commencing 22nd June 2026.