Amhp Hub

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) to work full time based in Hillingdon.

The salary for this permanent AMHP job is up to £59,169per annum.

**Main duties**:

- Provide expert professional and technical advice to other Social Workers, managers, colleagues and partners.
- Provide professional supervision of other Social Workers as appropriate, supporting caseload management and promoting reflective practice and continuous professional development.
- Support managers to embed a culture of continuous improvement and effective use of management information to facilitate decision making within mental health and the wider service.
- Provide professional leadership to social work colleagues through demonstrating exemplary practice, sharing knowledge and positively managing the interface between practice and education/training.
- Support AMHP trainees with the successful completion of their training, providing mentoring, on the job coaching, evaluation of the trainee’s portfolio as appropriate.
- Undertake initial and on-going statutory assessments of individuals and their carers need for social, psychological and physical care through a process of collaborative negotiation, which allows them as fully as possible to plan, implement and evaluate integrated packages of care and identified existing and potential support in their social networks. Arrange supplementary specialist assessments when necessary.
- Summarising assessments in statement of needs, determining user’s priority, under national eligibility criteria, for services and sharing this with them. Case managing according to agreed procedures.
- Manage social work caseload of most complex cases.
- Develop and maintain professional networks across a range of partner organisations and sectors.
- Establish a network of internal and external colleagues to support effective practice.
- Attend court and produce court reports when required and act as a representative for the local authority in court proceedings, statutory panels and with other agencies.
- Participate in team planning and contribute to the delivery of team and service plans.
- Responsible for ensuring the assessment and meeting of eligible needs through a personalised approach of people, ensuring effective use of reablement resources to increase residents independence and reduce demand on social care services.
- Complete other reasonable tasks in order to fulfil role purpose as required by management.

**Requirements of this AMHP Job.**
- Degree or equivalent in Social Work.
- Current Social Work England Registration.
- Experience within Children’s Services.
- Full Drivers Licence and have use of a vehicle.

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**Contact**:
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

**Reasonable Adjustments**:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.