Advanced Practitioner

People and Place

**Ref**: 000575

**Contract**:Permanent

**Salary**: £45,718 - £49,764 per annum (Grade 9) + 20% unsocial allowance

**Car User**:Essential

**Hours**:36.66 per week

**Based**: The Marjorie Lees Unit (Room 12), Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, OL1 2JH

**Closing Date**:Sunday 23rd March 2025

**Interview Dates**:w/c Monday 7th April 2025

**Role Overview**:
Oldham Emergency Duty Team (EDT) is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for the recruitment of an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) Social worker; to join a well-established team in delivering support and assessment to vulnerable children and adults outside of normal working hours.

Oldham EDT respond to emergency out-of-hours social work referrals during evenings, overnight, weekends and public holidays, where emergency intervention from the Local Authority is required to safeguard vulnerable children and adults.

This role will involve being part of an existing out of hours Rota (please see attached document). It will include time limited work with service users, multi-agency work with other professionals and Office-based assessment, support, triage and administrative duties.

Additional Training and support will be provided in relation to promoting an applicant’s development in Children’s Safeguarding and Adult Safeguarding.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To develop a local knowledge and understanding of resources which are available to meet the needs of service users, and signpost services users to appropriate service if appropriate.
- To contribute to the review and evaluation of cases, through observations, assessment and monitoring, ensuring actions are followed up.
- To undertake enquiries and assessments of vulnerable children and adults, including assessments under the Mental Health Act.
- To ensure files and records are accurately maintained, in accordance with Council policies and procedures. Information should be appropriately shared with other professionals.
- To ensure accurate information is recorded on social care IT system and passed to appropriate daytime services.
- To provide written and verbal contributions to other agencies and professionals
- On occasions you may be asked to convey families to a place of safety and/or children to foster placements. There may be occasions when you will need to assist adults to move to care establishments.
- To work out of office daytime hours, including weekend work. Occasional work in normal working hours may be required when working in partnership with other agencies.

**Key Requirements**:
To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

- Experience of direct work with children, adults & families and an ability to quickly build rapport to enable positive outcomes overcoming any barriers
- A post qualifying qualification to be an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP)
- The ability to work cooperatively with other agencies
- To work well under pressure and manage crisis situations
- To have good ICT and record keeping skills
- An understanding of good practice, legislation, issues and local/national initiatives for child and adult safeguarding
- The ability to work out of normal working hours and have access to your own transport

**What we need from you**:
Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful applicant will be required to register to the DBS Update Service to enable the Council to undertake rechecks throughout your employment. The cost to register is £13 and can be claimed back upon commencement to the role but will not be refunded if you do not accept the offer of employment.

This post requires registration to Social Work England. **For Social Workers**

**Diversity and Inclusion**:
At Oldham Council, we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background. We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.

**About Us**:
Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough. Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

The Council has a clear set of Behaviours, which outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses. Internally we have translated these into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of foc