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

Hounslow Children’s Services keep on improving and with children at the heart of everything we do we share a passion, desire and commitment to aspire to continue to be a high performing Local Authority.

We have exciting opportunity for an ATM in the Fostering Team. This role supports the provision of high quality fostering services to looked after children, foster carers, private foster carers and close liaison with social workers from other children services teams in Hounslow.

The ATM will need to be committed in managing and supporting Supervising Social workers to carry out their duties and responsibilities in line with the Fostering Regulations and Minimum Standards. The ATM will work to maintain high standards of professional practice, working at all times in the best interests of children and foster carers, ensuring that all the staff you supervise have clear evidence based practice.

Within this role you will be expected to contribute to the strategic policy and procedural developments of the fostering service.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The fostering team is a part of the children and Adult safeguarding team and sits under Corporate parenting. There are two ATM’s of which one focuses on the completion of annual reviews of foster carers. The other ATM provides supervision and management oversight of Supervising Social Workers. There this will be the role of the additional ATM. The ATM’s also provide peer group supervision and reflective supervision. There are 8 Supervising Social Workers and a recruitment and training co-ordinator.

The team is involved in the recruitment, assessment, training and support of foster carers. The completion of form F assessments, and presentation to the fostering and permanency panel for qualified determination. Approval of foster carers yearly annual reviews, in line with the National Minimum Standards.

The team also offers support and advice to regulation 24 carer and Staying Put Arrangements.

About You

1. To work closely with the Corporate Parenting Team Managers and social workers as well as the Placements Team to ensure appropriate accountability, and to deputise as necessary, including assisting the Team Manager in ensuring the effective monitoring and management of delegated responsibilities and budgets.

2. You will work to maintain high standards of professional practice, working at all times in the best interests of children and foster carers, ensuring that all the staff you supervise have clear evidence based practice and support plans in place on all allocated cases.

3. Within this role you will be expected to contribute to the strategic policy and procedural developments of the fostering service.

4. To ensure own and team’s professional knowledge is updated and that new legislation, policy and practice guidance is understood and implemented by the team.

5. To have management experience preferably in a fostering team.

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

Essential for the Role

Enhanced DBS check is required for the role.

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: Sonia.Mark@hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 07415257866

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 5th March 2026.