Learning Officer

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 is an exciting opportunity to be part of the historic houses team as Learning Officer. In this role, you’ll assist in the design, delivery and administration of schools and family learning programmes at the London Borough of Hounslow’s two historic houses, Hogarth’s House and Boston Manor House.

This role will deliver learning elements of the public programmes such as tours and workshops and will assist in training and supporting Visitor Experience Assistants to do the same. The role will also assist in training and directing the work of Visitor Experience Assistants and volunteers to facilitate bookings for the learning programmes at both sites.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

This role sits within the Culture Team as part of the Historic Houses sub team. The Historic Houses Team manage the two London Borough of Hounslow’s two owned and operated historic houses, Boston Manor House and Hogarth’s House. This team is responsible for the care of these buildings and their collections as well as the public programmes for each site.

This role reports directly to the Learning Managers, who report to the Historic Houses Senior Manager, the head of the Historic Houses team.

About You

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

1. An interest in schools, families and young people’s learning in a heritage setting.

2. A calm, adaptable and flexible approach to work.

3. Ability to maintain an organised set of booking and administrative systems.

4. Ability to work with a wide range of delivery stakeholders from freelancers and placement students to staff and volunteers.

5. Having an open and creative approach to designing and delivering activities.

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: Kate.Kulka@hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 0208 583 3399

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 14th December 2026.

(please seek your line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)