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

This role is to work in a supporting role with children and young people aged 11-25 to promote their personal, social and educational development. This role provides a holistically supportive, positive professional relationship with young people, ensuring the relationship is routed in young people’s own journey and led by them.

It creates opportunities for young people to develop their voice and views and creates opportunities to develop new services or shape existing services which meet children’s and young people’s needs.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The team consists of 2 Participation Officers and a Team Manager. The team is enthusiastic, vibrant and dedicated to ensuring the voices of children and young people are heard and that this makes a difference to service delivery.

About You

Do you have a:

• Passion for Social Justice: You believe that every young person, regardless of their background, deserves the same opportunities to be heard and succeed.

• Commitment to Empowerment: Your goal is to help others by giving young people the skills and confidence to advocate for themselves.

• Collaborative Spirit: You enjoy working as part of a team and are happy to share your successes and learn from your colleagues.

Qualifications:

GCSE in Maths and English

Essential for The Role:

Enhanced 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!

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: Amarjit.Sangha@hounslow.gov.uk

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing May/June 2026.