Adult Social Care Accommodation and Care Lead WCC623793

Job Details:

Salary range: £42,912 - £57,495 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience. 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months 
Closing date: 15 April 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE POWER OF CREATIVE THERAPY

Adult Social Care in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where our passionate, caring and committed professionals do brilliant work every day.

Mr J’s mental health had declined in which he was admitted to hospital. While he was being looked after we grew concerned about his personal care and lack of routine, and quickly realised that he needed social care support, to support his independence and help prepare him for a successful return to the community he loved.

He was assigned to Ms T, one of our experienced Mental Health Social Workers, who took a strengths-based, person-centred approach to his recovery. From their very first meetings, she built a strong rapport with Mr J and discovered he had a real passion for painting. She encouraged his creativity by providing art supplies and linking him with art therapy, helping him use his imagination and love of colour to manage his emotions and rediscover a genuine sense of purpose and fulfilment.

Working together, Ms T and Mr J developed a personalised plan for his discharge. This included re-establishing daily routines, building support networks, and engaging with a range of creative outlets. And so he could receive support and encouragement when he was back home, she also helped to connect him with a number of local art and mental health groups.

By the time he left hospital, Mr J felt much more positive, confident and hopeful about the future. His journey illustrates how our amazing Social Workers transform lives for the better, and focusing on a person’s creativity, strengths and connection to their community can make a world of difference to their mental health.

The Role:

As an Adult Social Care Accommodation and Care Lead in our Bi-Borough Learning Disabilities Service, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Working predominantly on housing solutions for adults with care needs, you’ll play an incredibly important role in delivering vital services that support residents to live healthy, fulfilling lives.

Supporting the coordination, delivery and continuous improvement of complex capital projects, you’ll ensure senior leaders and stakeholders have accurate oversight of project delivery. This role requires strong communication skills, the ability to convey project planning data and budget tracking information to relevant parties, and the proactivity to prioritise work based on strategic impact.

Acting as a source of best-practice technical and project management support to colleagues and stakeholders, you’ll be confident adjusting your communication style to fit your audience, which might include senior leadership, frontline practitioners, residents and partners.

Prioritising resident needs and using their feedback to shape service delivery is at the heart of this role. Maintaining open channels of communication, you’ll coordinate feedback, facilitate engagement sessions — such as meetings, workshops and events — and analyse data to produce actionable insights that support service improvement. 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

A strong communicator with experience supporting successful project delivery in a relevant setting, you’ll be confident planning, prioritising tasks and coordinating resources to keep projects on track. You’ll have the ability to collect, analyse and interrogate data to facilitate service improvement, and you’ll be comfortable communicating your findings to senior colleagues.

On a personal level, you’ll be proactive, adaptable and capable of delivering at pace. Empathetic and open-minded, you’ll have the ability to explain complex ideas simply, actively listen, and employ tact and sensitivity where necessary. When challenges arise, you’ll take a practical approach to problem-solving, using setbacks as an opportunity for learning and growth.

More than anything, you’ll be a person passionate about improving outcomes for adults with care needs. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to drive meaningful change at scale, and to join a close-knit, industry-leading team that puts residents at the heart of everything they do. 

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.

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.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.