Overview
We have an exciting role on offer within our Specialist and Lifelong Services as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) Lead.
About Us
Middlesbrough has AMHP’s working across Adult Social Care. Each AMHP participates on a weekly rota serving the people of Middlesbrough. This role aims to improve processes and ensure the AMHP service functions as efficiently as possible. The role will include allocating AMHP work, reviewing policies, providing meaningful supervision and acting as a liaison between all of the different partners involved in AMHP work.
To be successful in this role you need to be an experienced AMHP, work calmly under pressure and be able to balance the pressures of working as an AMHP and fulfilling other case work responsibilities.
You will have a responsibility for managing the AMHP rota, allocating AMHP work, managing CTO’s, reviewing policies, ensuring appropriate documentation is available to AMHP’s, ensuring assessments are input onto IT systems and working alongside partner agencies e.g. TEWV, Ambulance Services, Police etc.
If this is you, this may be the opportunity you are looking for!
In return we can offer:
- Generous leave entitlement with an option to purchase up to 10 additional days annual leave per year.
- Excellent pension plus top-up options.
- Staff networks run by our staff for our staff.
- Flexible working (dependent on job role).
- Electric car lease scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee benefits portal including Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Staff lottery.
- Travel and car parking schemes.
- Ongoing training and development opportunities.
- Fantastic career progression opportunities and lots more!
If you would like to talk through this opportunity further, please contact Alistair Russell at alistair_russell@middlesbrough.gov.uk.
The above post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
We operative a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for applicants that can show they meet all the essential criteria and have indicated they have a disability, are a looked after young person, care leaver or a veteran.
Salary: £45,091 – £47,181
