Approved Mental Health Professional

6 months ago

Plymouth, United Kingdom Pertemps Network Group Full time

**Job Description**:
**Approved Mental Health Professional**

**Location**:
**South West**
Pay rate: £48 per hour
We are looking for experienced and passionate an
**AMHP** to join a dedicated
**Team for a **South West Local Authority
**. **As part of the Team you will be Joining a fast paced, busy and supportive team. You will have the responsibility to co-ordinate an assessment and demonstrates the principles of the Mental Health Act e.g. the least restrictive principle and the participation principle. You will need to ensure the person is appropriately interviewed and if admitted to hospital that they are conveyed there in the most humane and dignified manner. You will provide the Council’s statutory emergency duty response outside of office hours, weekends and bank holidays in difficult and complex situations. The role holder will respond to adults in need of mental health assessment, safeguarding and social care emergency intervention.
The role holder will be responsible for the safe delivery of social care, ensuring the effective discharge of statutory responsibilities and the provision of a high quality standard of service. The role holder will manage safeguarding risk effectively, working within a multiagency environment to provide a professional social work service. Role holder will work in a holistic and person centred way, ensuring customers and families remain central to the processes they are part of.

***
- Professional Social Work qualification and to be registered with the Social Work England.- Must be qualified AMHP- Post qualification experience, along with experience of working with complex cases.-
- Must be able to work out of hours including weekends and Bank Holidays to ensure a 24/7 all year around service.**In this role you will**:

- Effectively respond and manage to out of hours referrals. The role holder will be accountable for highly complex decision making across a range of social work duties and responsibilities.- Carry out assessments and share outcomes with other contributors as appropriate in an out of hours emergency duty setting.- Assess and where appropriate arrange admission to hospital either formally or informally, or to refer / signpost to alternative least restrictive alternatives to admission. To support the Trust in ensuring effective gate keeping of all admissions liaising with crisis and Home Treatment teams and medical colleagues as appropriate.- Ensure an effective safeguarding intervention within the locality or hospital setting, managing the process of investigations, protection planning and consistent recording to a required standard.-
- Engage informal supports, seek resolutions in conflicts and mobilise various parts of statutory, voluntary and independent services as and when appropriate. Prepare and produce a variety of high quality and professional written documentation on behalf of the City Council in accordance with national and local policies and procedures and within agreed timescales.- Work in conjunction with and providing consultation to partner agencies to deliver effective planning for adults and their families to ensure positive outcomes for adults in Manchester.- Ensure that the practice of ethical record keeping is observed and recording is evidence based, accurate and up to date.- Take an active role in team and service development. This will include supervising new staff and students and leading in the development of policies, procedures and training activities, supporting the Team Manager in achieving and sustaining a high performance culture within the team.- Take a personal commitment to continuous self development and service improvement. Through personal example, open commitment and clear action, ensure diversity is positively valued, resulting in equal access and treatment in employment, service delivery and communications.This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

- Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.
This role is ideally located for those travelling from Plymouth, Bournemouth, Bristol, Bath, Southampton, Plymouth, Cardiff, Yeovil, Newport, Poole, Torquay, Paignton, Exeter, Exmouth, Newquay, St Austell, Bodmin, Truro, Falmouth, St Ives, Weymouth, Yeovil, Taunton, Bridgewater, Minehead, Ilfracombe, Barnstable, Bideford, Bude, Launceston.

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