Training and Development Manager

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

The London Borough of Hounslow are seeking to recruit a Training and Development Manager to join us on a permanent, full-time basis, working 36 hours per week.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced safeguarding professional who is passionate about developing high-quality practice and improving outcomes for children, young people and families. Working closely with the Principal Social Worker, you will lead the commissioning, coordination, delivery and evaluation of safeguarding training across Children's Specialist Services.

As the strategic lead for safeguarding learning and development, you will identify workforce development needs, design and implement innovative training solutions, and ensure that learning opportunities reflect current legislation, research, national developments and learning from local and national reviews.

You will play a key role in driving practice improvement across Children's Services, supporting a culture of continuous learning and professional curiosity. Working collaboratively with senior leaders, practitioners and partner agencies, you will help shape and deliver our workforce development priorities while ensuring commissioned training provides excellent value for money and delivers measurable impact.

This role offers the opportunity to influence practice across the whole children's workforce, develop innovative approaches to learning and development, and make a lasting contribution to safeguarding outcomes across Hounslow.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead the commissioning, coordination and evaluation of the interagency safeguarding training programme for Children's Specialist Services and partner agencies.

2. Identify learning and development needs across the workforce and ensure these are met through innovative, high-quality training solutions.

3. Deliver and commission safeguarding training that reflects current legislation, research, best practice and learning from reviews.

4. Support the management of the workforce development budget, ensuring value for money and effective use of resources.

5. Develop collaborative working across agencies and contribute to strategic workforce development priorities within the Hounslow Safeguarding Children's Partnership.

6. Provide expert advice, guidance and support on safeguarding training and workforce development to managers and practitioners.

7. Facilitate and deliver in-house training and coordinate specialist practice expertise across the service.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

You will be working in Safeguarding & Quality Assurance under the Workforce Development Team, collaborating with Hounslow Safeguarding Partnership. The primary focus is on building the knowledge and skills of our workforce, leading to provision of safe and high-level interventions with children, young people, and families. Hounslow is committed to our ‘Grow your own’ strategy with a strong focus on building on Hounslow talent to work alongside our career development and succession plan.

About You

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

1. Ability to provide high quality, reflective, analytical, and evidence-based training to develop practice to the highest professional standards to achieve excellent outcomes with and for children, young people and their families.

2. Ability to demonstrate professional thinking and research skills in children’s safeguarding and care and to implement this across the service.

3. Ability to manage resources within budgetary constraints, securing best value and cost effectiveness.

4. Ability to analyse information from a range of quality assurance mechanisms including performance data and audits, producing reports of a high quality for HSCB and senior managers.

Experience of social work practice, safeguarding, learning and development, workforce development or professional standards environments will be highly valued."

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: Tamlyn.Bilton@hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 0208-583-4569

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 28th September 2026.