Practice Manager - Community Locality Mental Health Team WCC620296

Job Details:

Salary range: £54,684 - £64,032 per annum 
Work location: 190 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 1DX 
Hours per week: 36  
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months 
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check  
Closing date: 18 March 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF GIRO’S PERSUASIVE POWERS 

The Adult Services team in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. We love it when our work touches lives. 

Take Stepping to the Beat, our 3k walk, jog or run for people with learning or physical disabilities or Autism, their families and carers. It’s a life-affirming, music-based event Coreen and Claudia are massively proud of – and they were keen for people to spread the word. So, imagine how thrilled they were when one of our residents, Giro, did just that. Advocating for people with disabilities at a planning meeting for transport in London, he was proudly wearing his event medal. And he decided to use it to encourage others. As he passed it around the room, Giro inspired lots more people with disabilities to get involved. Infectious enthusiasm goes a long way here. 

Please view the extraordinary story of Giro’s Persuasive Powers here.

The Role:

As Practice Manager with our Adult Services team you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. Providing team members with your managerial knowledge and expertise, you’ll promote professional standards and good practice compliant with current legislation. Coordinating the supported accommodation and placement panel and ensuring that our mental health service users are accommodated appropriately, we’ll also expect you to ensure there is on-going use of all relevant housing resources.

Carrying a caseload that includes complex assessments, court proceedings and joint work, you’ll undertake continuous risk assessment for users who work with the team, and keep up to date with the latest research in relation to mental health and social care legislation. Promoting the highest professional standards, and undertaking audits of social work practice, we’ll also require you to manage safeguarding enquiries and identify child protection issues, and if required, implement the relevant procedures.

Accountable for reviewing key performance indicators and taking appropriate action to manage areas of concern, you’ll ensure systems are in place to monitor service delivery, and quality and financial standards are met. In addition, you’ll help to provide relevant learning and development interventions to meet individual, team and service needs, and make sure that staff receive regular supervision of their practice.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

With plenty of experience working in the community with people who suffer from severe mental health problems, you’ll have good knowledge of the legislation, guidance and best practice that underpins adult social work and care. Capable of translating statutes into excellent policy and practice, you’ll also be a skilled chair and constructive participant in a variety of meeting environments, possess the ability to define work for your colleagues, and prioritise and delegate appropriately.

You should have excellent assessment skills, be ready to make effective decisions under pressure, have the confidence to manage high risk situations, and your clear leadership and team management skills will allow you to provide motivating guidance to all the disciplines involved in our duty and out of hours services. We’ll also look for experience of working in culturally diverse communities, and the ability to maintain effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary teams and other external agencies.

Flexible, respectful and able to reflect and evaluate your practice, you’ll be an inspirational team and collaborative team worker who’s ready to work in a potentially stressful environment while prioritising your workload. You should also have good IT skills, a Dip SW or its equivalent, be registered with Social Work England and hold additional professional qualifications relevant to the post.

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.