Planning and Performance Officer
London Borough of Hounslow
Hounslow, London£45,750 - £49,056 per annum.
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
This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Service as a Planning and Performance Officer, with a strong focus on Early Help, prevention and system reform.
In this role, you will play a key part in supporting the Early Help Strategic Manager and senior leaders to deliver Families First for Children Programme (FFPP) reforms and wider Early Help priorities. You will contribute to strategic planning, performance management, programme delivery and improvement activity across Children’s Services, helping to ensure children, young people and families receive the right help at the right time.
You will work with performance data, policy, research and partnership intelligence to support evidence based decision making, strengthen Early Help outcomes and ensure readiness for inspection and assurance activity. This is an opportunity to develop your skills in strategic analysis, programme management, system working and governance, while making a meaningful contribution to improving outcomes for families.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
This role works alongside and reports to the Early Help Strategic Manager and operates across Children’s Services, working closely with Early Help services, social care, performance and data colleagues, and a wide range of internal and external partners.
The post contributes to the delivery of high-quality practice, strong performance management and continuous improvement across Children’s Services, with a particular focus on Early Help delivery and service transformation in line with Families First Partnership Programme.
About You
We’re looking for someone who can:
1. Contribute to strategic planning and the overall improvement of the performance of Children’s Services, enhancing outcomes for children and young people.
2. Provide a flexible resource for the agile project management of specific projects and initiatives on a departmental, cross-departmental and cross-agency basis.
3. Maintain an overview of the performance and project governance of service improvement initiatives to support the Department and Council in delivering high quality services.
4. Deliver the outturns and narrative for service level performance indicators in the corporate plan.
Your Skills
1. Experience of performance management frameworks, reporting and presenting.
2. Excellent written skills and the ability to produce reports, briefings and narrative on performance data.
3. Experience of managing projects and running boards and panels.
4. Experience of data analysis and good ICT skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Essential for The Role:
Standard DBS
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
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!
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:
Interviews for this job will be held on 16th June 2026.
(please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)