Councillor Henderson serves as Wandsworth Council’s Cabinet member for Health and Community Safety supporting Wandsworth’s elderly and vulnerable residents to ensure they receive high quality social care as well as leading the borough’s community public health initiatives including our public health response to anti social behaviour and crime.
Councillor Henderson was elected as a Labour Councillor for Earlsfield in Wandsworth in May 2018 and has been a Councillor for Roehampton since May 2022, leaving the civil service after 36 and a half years.
His last role was in the Department of Health’s Legacy management Team in which Cllr Henderson project managed a number of personal/HR issues arising from the 2012 re-organisation of the NHS.
Prior to that he was Head of Health and Work responsible for implementing the Department of Health’s response to Dame Carol Black’s Review ” Working for a healthier tomorrow” and the development of the successful Health and Work Network of the Public Health Responsibility Deal.
Originally recruited into the civil service as one of HM Inspectors of Factories within the Health and Safety Executive, Councillor Henderson has held a wide range of operational and policy posts in the civil service working with many parts of industry and commerce to develop his principal profession as an occupational health, safety and well-being specialist.
He remains an active member of the Employment Tribunal, as a consultant with considerable expertise in occupational health, safety and well-being and in representative roles as a trade unionist, becoming National President of his trade union, Prospect and a trustee and active volunteer for a number of charities.