Job Details: Salary range: GBP 54,684 : GBP 57,726 per annum (including an allowance of up to 5 of the annual salary) Work location: 190 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 1DX Hours per week: 36 Contract type: Permanent Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check Closing date: 11 May 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 a Senior Social Worker with our Joint Homelessness team you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster's success. Helping to provide management and leadership to the team's social workers, you'll play a key role in ensuring we offer the highest standards of social care to our service users. You'll also work to deliver mental health assessments for Westminster's street homeless, and operate in partnership with other clinical services within the local authority and provider agencies to ensure that homeless service users receive the support they need. Committed to ensuring all our staff practise in a safe, appropriate and professional way, you'll develop and maintain close relationships with other professionals and stakeholders such as outreach services, accommodation providers and GPs. Organising and investigating any safeguarding concerns that arise, we'll also expect you to attend regular management and senior team meetings, ensure staff keep accurate electronic notes, and contribute to the implementation of the clinical governance agenda. Other key tasks will include participation in street outreach sessions, promoting and supporting recovery and self:care, and deploying resources in an effective manner to meet service users' needs. You should also be prepared to maintain and develop your practice expertise to ensure ongoing professional registration with Social Work England, be responsible for your own continuous personal development, and attend professional practice forums. Please refer to the Job Description for more information. About You: With well developed experience of working with homeless people as a Social Worker and Approved Mental Health Professional, you'll have the ability to manage staff in a high pressure working environment, and possess a successful track record of making improvements in service delivery and operational effectiveness. A confident and motivating leader with excellent risk assessment, safeguarding and decision:making skills, you'll also have good knowledge of all the relevant legislation and codes of practice. Its essential that you possess a good command of written and spoken English, and with this in mind you'll be a clear and effective communicator with significant skills in developing partnerships with key stakeholders. We'll also expect you to be able to engage with challenging and acutely distressed patients in potentially hostile or antagonistic situations, be ready to employ de:escalation techniques effectively, and use your clinical knowledge to make decisions based on an analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about the available options. A collaborative and creative team worker, it's vital that you have a good understanding of performance management systems and the importance of achieving targets. Committed to treating service users with respect and dignity at all times, an