AMHP Lead | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 AMHP Payment of £2000.00 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2024 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK40 2NT |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6302420/363-BED6302420 |
Summary
Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) Band 7, plus AMHP payment of £2000 per annum.
We are seeking to recruit a band 7 AMHP to join the Bedfordshire and Luton Countywide AMHP Service on a permanent position. It is an excellent opportunity for an experienced or newly qualified AMHP, who is ambitious about service development. AMHP Lead for the Service, you will be responsible for providing routine and urgent Mental Health Act assessments (MHA) under part 2 of the MHA (1983). You will be expected to provide triage support for the AMHP service, leading on day to day operational activities of the AMHP service on a rota basis and supporting the AMHP Operational manager to ensure the service delivers on its objectives. You will also provide and offer training, advice and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, regarding the use of mental health law and least restrictive options; to ensure the timely delivery of an appropriate, safe, effective, and responsive and well led AMHP Service that is caring and maximizes people’s statutory rights.
Flexible working arrangements can be considered in line with Trust flexible working policy.
Purpose of the Job:
The post holder will be the Lead AMHP for the AMHP Service in Luton and Bedfordshire; providing operational management to a team of AMHPs and junior staff. They will also offer expertise to multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure the timely delivery of a safe, effective, responsive and well led AMHP Service that is caring and maximizes people’s statutory rights.
The AMHP Service in Bedfordshire and Luton is commissioned to carry out statutory assessments under the Mental Health Act, (1983 MHA, as amended 2007) for consideration of compulsory admission to hospital, Community Treatment Orders, Guardianship and related duties.
As AMHP Lead the post holder will be responsible for the operational management and leadership of your team, ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the Service. This will include professional responsibility and accountability for ensuring that all key professional/ quality standards and performance indicators for the AMHP Service are met in a timely manner. Leading on the professional support and development of others, you will provide professional supervision for other AMHPs and manage performance in order to ensure quality standards are maintained.
As AMHP Lead the post holder will be responsible for a mixture of managerial and senior clinical duties including undertaking of MHA assessments. With an enhanced level of knowledge and expertise in relation to the use of the MHA (1983, as amended 2007).
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Please refer to the attached AMHP Job Description and person specification for further information. .
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024