Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Approved Mental Health Professional within the Duty Service to work Full Time for based in Kensington & Chelsea.
The salary for this permanent AMHP job is up to £53,088 per annum.
Main duties:
- To carry out Mental Health Act Assessments as an autonomous practitioner and consider the least restrictive options.
- To complete, in accordance with the Mental Health Act, all assessment and recommendation paperwork and ensure this is uploaded to patient record.
- To provide a strong social work and social care perspective to the work undertaken in the team and act as a social care expert to others around Mental Health Act legislation.
- To ensure all AMHP warranting requirements are maintained in order to remain warranted, including evidence of required continuing professional development.
- To engage in regular vetting with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
- To keep abreast of all relevant legislation and case law relevant to being an AMHP, sound working knowledge and practice with regards to The Care Act 2014 and any other relevant legislation.
- To have responsibility for a portfolio of cases for a defined area of work as determined by the line manager.
- Co-operate and participate in the rota system at all times with other members of the service unit and to respond to Emergency situations when required when referred to the AMHP Duty Service before 5pm which may lead to working unsociable hours until the assessment is safely completed.
- To promote and ensure maximum service user user/carer’s involvement and participation at all times.
- To ensure personal and professional development as an AMHP and to maintain the AMHP warrant for the borough.
- Ability to work positively as a member of the team both with Social Services and with other agencies.
- To investigate complaints where appropriate and as directed.
- To identify safeguarding issues in relation to both adults and children and to implement procedures as required. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and all employees are required to act in such a way that at all tomes safeguards the heath and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults.
- Any other duties as required.
Requirements of this AMHP role:
- A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.
Contact:
This AMHP role 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.
