Job Description

About Us:

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THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF INDEPENDENT LIVES

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.





Mrs D was frail and unwell. Her son was her main carer, but he wasn't coping. We stepped in to help, but they were hostile to outside agencies. They'd always lived together and were terrified they'd be split up. Our social worker did a great job persuading Mrs D to get hospital treatment and a temporary stay in a care home. In an epic effort throughout COVID, she gained the son's trust and sorted all the repairs, carers and nurses needed so that Mrs D could come home to live with her son. We also got Mr D regular respite and a personal budget awarded in recognition of him as her carer. After all, there's nothing more important than living the life you want.

The Role:

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The Principal Occupational Therapist will drive preventative, personalised, strengths-based, social care services and practice that focus on enablement and optimising the independence and wellbeing of our population. As a member of the management team, contribute to the strategic leadership of services and develop and implement standards which provide a cohesive and high performing social work workforce, embraces cultural change and improve practice.





The Principal Occupational Therapist Occupational therapist will strive to improve Occupational Therapy service delivery across the organisation in terms of efficient and effective pathway development.





While a vulnerable adult's immediate situation is obviously of vital importance, you will also look to the future to identify any integrated health and social care solutions that could be implemented now, in order to delay future needs from occurring. With a focus on safeguarding everyone that you're working with (both service users and anyone they're living with), you will devise achievable protection plans.





This is a valuable opportunity to make a tangible impact on the emotional and physical wellbeing of Westminster's residents. With the full support of a multidisciplinary team that includes Occupational Therapists and Independent Living Assessors, you will provide a valuable backbone of support to service users' families and carers, listening to their concerns and signposting them to the relevant support and information that will provide a better quality of life for both them and the people they're caring for.





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About You:

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This is a great chance to pursue your ambitions in a team who want you to succeed and progress in your career. To be equal to the challenge, you will therefore be a qualified and registered Social Worker, with experience of supporting adults within the community, and ideally within their own home environments. Highly organised with a current enhanced DBS check in place, you'll have a good awareness of the relevant legislation and safeguarding procedures.





A HCPC registered occupational therapist with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience, you have a track record of working with adults with disabilities - ideally within their own homes. You have demonstrable skills in completing complex movement and handling assessments and care plans.





Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary setting, you'll bring to the role great communication and relationship building skills, together with a flair for problem solving. Like everyone in our team, you are passionate about enabling people to feel safe and empowered to live more independent lives.





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:

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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.