Approved Mental Health Professional - AMHP (MM1)

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified

Location : Silver Street, Enfield Council

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate start

Start Time : 01:00

End Time : 09:00

Salary: £30.60

EDT Worker rate for duty sessional EDT AMHP between 1.00am – 09.00am

Standby Rate – £97.60. Pay rate Spinal Point – Level 3 EDT, 39 – 42 (£51,522 – £54,627 per annum)

Purpose of the Role:

• Ensure that corporate/departmental people practices are understood and implemented within your service.

• Out of Hours, the focus is on prevention, risk management, reducing risk of admission to hospital or residential care, promoting recovery, independence, social inclusion, and delivering person-centred care and support.

• Collaborate constructively with ASC groups, partner organisations and other stakeholders including internal, external services and colleagues.

• Build a culture of trust in your team.

• To ensure services are delivered in a manner that reflects the diversity of Enfield Residents.

• To work and develop positive partnerships with other council groups, internally, external agencies, and other organisations.

• To contribute towards the efficient and effective management of people and resources to balance need and risk; and contribute to the delivery of council objectives and the best possible outcomes for service users and their carers.

• To provide an effective and responsive service in emergency situations to Vulnerable Adults and their families outside of office hours, including weekends, public holidays, and the Council-wide stat day.

• Undertake statutory functions under powers of the Mental Health Act 1983 as amended 2007, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Care Act 2014, which can lead to the deprivation of liberty or to protect and safeguard.

• Out of hours to explore safe, creative, and imaginative personalised alternatives to hospital admission or residential care for the management of complex social issues or mental illness and have regard to the implications of mental disorder for patients, vulnerable adults, their relatives, and carers.

• Assert a social perspective and to make properly informed independent decisions whilst carrying out assessments of care, and risk management of Vulnerable Adults or individuals presenting with a range and complexities of mental health problems, ensuring appropriate action and timely intervention.

• Carry out comprehensive risk assessments and devise robust risk management plans that are regularly monitored, and assertively reviewed.

• To be a sensitive negotiator when assessing service users and carers, where there is conflict or a lack of cooperation. Balancing the competing requirements of confidentiality, safety, and effective information sharing to the benefit of the service user and other persons concerned with the service user’s care.

Skills, Experience, Knowledge, Behaviours

Essential:

1. As a regular and intrinsic part of this role requires you to speak to members of the public in English, the

ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential and

consistent with the requirements of this role. This role also requires you to be polite and courteous when conversing

with the public.

2. A relevant social work professional qualification DipSW, CQSW or equivalent, and AMHP qualification.

Level 2/3: Minimum of 2 years’ experience of work as a qualified Social Worker and Practicing AMHP working with

people with Mental Health problems and their carers and supervising junior staff or students.

3. Post qualifying/Senior Practitioner experience that demonstrates the ability to manage and prioritise a complex workload, work to changing and often conflicting demands to manage varying levels of risk, and the ability and willingness to take on additional responsibilities as and when required.

4. Demonstrable understanding of current key policy initiatives that promote health, social inclusion, independence and prevent the unnecessary admission of older people and/or children into hospital/institutional care. As well as to work in partnership with carer’s, families and other professionals whilst ensuring that the needs of the service user is safeguarded.

5. The ability to lead on specific priority projects that contribute to the teams/service performance, targets and plans for improvement. Ensuring that access and resources allocation encompasses all members of the community.

6. Ability to write concise and accurate reports, maintain records in accordance with statutory requirements and current records policy, utilise IT.

7. Knowledge and ability to implement Health and Safety policy and guidelines in relation to both service users and staff.

Desirable:

1. Practice Educator status or a willingness to undertake further academic study in the field of specialism.

2. Access to a vehicle or own transport and be able to travel between multiple sites.

3. Prior experience of out of hours Emergency Duty Work