Specialist Care Manager WCC623534
Hampshire County Council, Westminster, CO, United States
Specialist Care Manager WCC623534
Salary range: £42,912 - £46,854 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP.
Hours per week: 36.
Contract type: Permanent.
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check.
Closing date: 18 May 2026.
The Role:
As Substance Use Specialist Care Manager you will manage a challenging caseload and support service users with mental illness and substance use comorbidity. You will deliver individual psychosocial sessions to vulnerable people, operate as a link worker between statutory mental health services and the local authority’s Dual Diagnosis Team, and ensure that information is shared between services.
You will work proactively with voluntary sector substance use services, attend meetings, and provide guidance, advice and knowledge relating to mental illness. You will offer harm minimisation advice, promote general health and well‑being, and maintain positive therapeutic relationships with service users. You will identify and refer service users to substance use day and/or residential rehab programmes, regularly review placements and help them achieve abstinence.
You will co‑facilitate groups that help service users learn from each other’s experiences, provide training to fellow professionals regarding Dual Diagnosis, and keep comprehensive and up‑to‑date records of your interventions. You will participate in a multi‑disciplinary response to crisis situations, undertake continuous risk assessment and management, and act as Lead Enquiry Officer in Care Act assessments and safeguarding enquiries.
To be successful you should have well‑developed experience of working in an inpatient or community setting with service users who have severe and enduring mental health and/or substance abuse issues. You should be capable of undertaking assessments to determine service eligibility against statutory criteria, delivering one‑to‑one psychosocial interventions, facilitating group sessions, and using techniques such as Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. You should be ready to work alongside residential rehabilitation services and be familiar with the provisions of The Care Act, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
Your warm and empathetic communication skills will help you build positive therapeutic relationships with service users. You will assess, design, deliver and evaluate health and social care packages and work collaboratively with families, carers, police, ambulance services and other statutory and non‑statutory bodies. Good record‑keeping and IT skills, particularly in Microsoft software, are required.
You must have a strong commitment to implementing equal opportunities for care delivery and staff in a multi‑cultural community. You should be up to speed with the latest developments in nursing and social care, including concepts of recovery and the personalisation agenda. You must be qualified in one of the following: a Social Work degree and registration with Social Work England, a Nursing degree or qualification and registration with NMC, an Occupational Therapist qualification and current registration with a governing body, or a Clinical Psychologist qualification and current registration with a governing body.
What We Offer
Westminster City Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a declared 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.
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Salary range: £42,912 - £46,854 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP.
Hours per week: 36.
Contract type: Permanent.
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check.
Closing date: 18 May 2026.
The Role:
As Substance Use Specialist Care Manager you will manage a challenging caseload and support service users with mental illness and substance use comorbidity. You will deliver individual psychosocial sessions to vulnerable people, operate as a link worker between statutory mental health services and the local authority’s Dual Diagnosis Team, and ensure that information is shared between services.
You will work proactively with voluntary sector substance use services, attend meetings, and provide guidance, advice and knowledge relating to mental illness. You will offer harm minimisation advice, promote general health and well‑being, and maintain positive therapeutic relationships with service users. You will identify and refer service users to substance use day and/or residential rehab programmes, regularly review placements and help them achieve abstinence.
You will co‑facilitate groups that help service users learn from each other’s experiences, provide training to fellow professionals regarding Dual Diagnosis, and keep comprehensive and up‑to‑date records of your interventions. You will participate in a multi‑disciplinary response to crisis situations, undertake continuous risk assessment and management, and act as Lead Enquiry Officer in Care Act assessments and safeguarding enquiries.
To be successful you should have well‑developed experience of working in an inpatient or community setting with service users who have severe and enduring mental health and/or substance abuse issues. You should be capable of undertaking assessments to determine service eligibility against statutory criteria, delivering one‑to‑one psychosocial interventions, facilitating group sessions, and using techniques such as Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. You should be ready to work alongside residential rehabilitation services and be familiar with the provisions of The Care Act, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
Your warm and empathetic communication skills will help you build positive therapeutic relationships with service users. You will assess, design, deliver and evaluate health and social care packages and work collaboratively with families, carers, police, ambulance services and other statutory and non‑statutory bodies. Good record‑keeping and IT skills, particularly in Microsoft software, are required.
You must have a strong commitment to implementing equal opportunities for care delivery and staff in a multi‑cultural community. You should be up to speed with the latest developments in nursing and social care, including concepts of recovery and the personalisation agenda. You must be qualified in one of the following: a Social Work degree and registration with Social Work England, a Nursing degree or qualification and registration with NMC, an Occupational Therapist qualification and current registration with a governing body, or a Clinical Psychologist qualification and current registration with a governing body.
What We Offer
Westminster City Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a declared 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.
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