Job Details:

Salary range: £56,436 - £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 24 months
Closing date: 26 April 2026
Interview date: 6 May 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF EMPOWERED FAMILIES

Children’s Services at Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories where compassionate people bring everything to their work, including their own experiences of parenting.

Take Melissa, a Senior Social Worker in our Assessment Team. She’s one of the first people families meet when accessing our services, so building rapport is critical. And that’s where Melissa’s life experience really counts. She had her first child as a young adult and knows just how judgemental others can be.

Melissa has something unique to offer and it can’t be found in a textbook: her own experience of raising two children as a single parent. She’s committed to empowering others: giving them the skills, resources and confidence they need, from housing support to baby supplies. And if the family has older kids? Well, she’s been there too. Her youngest is now 15 and Melissa knows the challenges of helping young people navigate inner-city life.

Melissa first learnt her craft as a support worker, then completed her statutory training as social worker – all while raising her family single-handed. And she’s not done yet. Supported by her managers, she’s been training in systemic therapy and is already looking forward to her next development opportunity. 

Melissa’s more than a social worker; she’s a shining example to the families she works with every day.

The Role:

As a Special Projects Lead in our Children’s Services department, you can make your own powerful contribution to children, families and communities across Westminster.

Responsible for helping deliver strategies and action plans, you’ll help improve outcomes for vulnerable residents, including those seeking asylum or refugees. Working in partnership with a wide range of colleagues and organisations, you’ll translate national policy into impactful local delivery plans and strategies.

Your day-to-day will be varied and fast-paced, including everything from analysing data, evidence and insights to support robust decision making, to coordinating the effective use of resources to ensure value for money and maximum impact.

This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact to vulnerable people, so you’ll work with sensitivity, managing risk, monitoring best practice and prioritising innovation and learning. Putting communities’ needs at the heart of everything you do, you’ll work alongside residents to champion co-design, leading on engagement activity that helps us better serve and support our communities. 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

An established professional with experience leading and delivering complex projects or programmes, you’ll have built effective working relationships with senior stakeholders, partner organisations and elected members in a past role. Bringing strong project and programme management skills, you’ll be capable of interpreting policy, data and complex information in order to make service improvement recommendations.

On a personal level, you’ll be a highly organised, communicative and collaborative individual, capable of building credibility and trust with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders. Sensitive, empathetic and calm under pressure, you’ll demonstrate integrity and sound judgment in everything you do.

Most importantly, you’ll be passionate about improving outcomes for vulnerable residents. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a supportive team that values you for you, and to supercharge your career in the process.

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.

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

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.