Forensic AMHP Uxbridge, England
Job description
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Forensic Approved Mental Health Professional to work Full Time based in Hillingdon.
The salary for this permanent Forensic AMHP job is up to £49,674per annum.
Main duties:
- Support the service to ensure practice across teams ensures adults with mental health disorders are supported.
- To ensure the service complies with the principles of equal access and non-discriminatory practice and is accessible to all members of the community.
- 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 identifies existing and potential support in their social networks. Arrange supplementary specialist assessments when necessary.
- Summarising assessments in a 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 a Social Work caseload of mentally disordered offenders both in the community and enabling their discharge from hospital or prison.
- Develop and maintain professional networks across a range of partner organisations and sectors/
- Model and help others develop social work professionalism and effective caseload management.
- 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.
- Work independently and demonstrate an ability to adapt their approach to more complex cases.
- In conjunction with the Head of Service MH and LD and Service Manager for Mental Health, advise and support the Senior Management Team with expert knowledge of current and future adult social care practice issues and legislative context.
- Complete other reasonable tasks in order to fulfil purpose as required by management.
Requirements of this Forensic AMHP Job.
- Degree or equivalent in Social Work.
- Current Social Work England Registration.
- Experience within Children’s/Adults Services.
- Full Drivers Licence and have use of a vehicle.
Contact:
This Forensic AMHP job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
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.
