Dual Diagnosis Senior Practitioner - Maternity WCC620124

Job Details:

Salary range: £54,684 - £60,795 per annum
Work location: 2-4 Malton Road, London W10 5UP
Hours per week: 36.00  
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months 
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 23 March 2025
Interview date: 31 March 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF HAYLEA’S UNBEATABLE SPIRIT 

Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their optimism and talent to achieve more than anyone thought possible.

Nobody personifies this more than Haylea Navarro. Born with cerebral palsy and paralysed down one side since birth, Haylea has been gleefully proving people wrong ever since. Now a project officer, she brings faster broadband connectivity to Westminster businesses, boosting the economy for all. Throw in her gong at the 2020 London Apprenticeship Awards, and it’s clear for all to see just what can happen when you never give in. 

Please view the extraordinary story of Haylea’s Unbeatable Spirit here.

The Role:

As Dual Diagnosis Senior Practitioner, you can make your own powerful contribution to truly life-changing work. Our Dual Diagnosis Team works with people in central London who have a mental illness and substance use comorbidity. With your expertise in both mental health and addiction focused social care, you’ll relish this role. Because you know exactly how special it is to work with vulnerable people, helping to facilitate freedom from addiction and make improvements in their own lives.

This is a varied role with plenty of autonomy, in which you’ll work with a diverse population and a number of different mental health teams. You’ll provide specialist dual diagnosis support to both individuals and groups of patients. Working closely with colleagues who specialise in social work, occupational therapy, nursing, counselling and peer support work, you’ll benefit from the multidisciplinary team’s significant collective experience and expertise in Dual Diagnosis. 

You’ll help people make positive changes around their mental health, substance use and social circumstances, so they can move forward with their lives. We’ll look to you to provide direction to experienced colleagues, and to make decisions about the suitability of cases. You’ll also have crisis management responsibilities. Enjoying a flexible approach, you’ll divide your working week between different NHS and local authority sites, as well as working from home. 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

Together with a relevant professional qualification and registration, you have recent experience of developing skills in substance use or mental health. Proven clinical skills, a talent for communication, and a flair for leadership equip you to guide and supervise staff – including delivering training – while managing your own reduced caseload. You demonstrate knowledge of interventions with service users who have a dual diagnosis – from motivational interviewing to harm minimisation, to relapse prevention as well as a good knowledge of the Care Act. With the ability to plan, manage and implement change, you’ll help us make our service more effective than ever.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority ( GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' ( formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants,  we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.