Approved Mental Health Professional Service Manager

Job summary

This post is full time, Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week (consideration will be given to part-time/flexible working arrangements). This post is offered as either an internal secondment opportunity (applicants must have secured the agreement of their line manager/organisation) or fixed term contract (one year, with the potential for a further one year extension)

Approved Mental Health Professionals (assigned)The role of daytime AMHPs within Devon County Council has significantly changed in recent times. Consisting of four locally dedicated AMHP teams, with support from those AMHPs based in Adult Social Care. Our AMHPs no longer carry caseloads within community teams. Instead, our AMHPs work more flexibly with internal and external partners to ensure a more robust response to those individuals who are at risk of being detained, or restricted, under the Mental Health Act.

As a service we aim to empower AMHPs to utilise the full scope of consideration afforded to them by the Act, the Code of Practice and evidence-based practice.

Along with frontline duty, our AMHPs routinely and proactively work with crisis teams, wards, community teams, street triage, police, CAMHS and other services to ensure the most appropriate legal response. In addition, our AMHPs will also have a small allocation of community MHA and social supervision patients with the aim of supporting those individuals and their treating teams with the management of those orders.

Main duties of the job

Key tasks

• Responsible for the direct line management of four locality AMHP Team Managers and a business support officer
• Professional supervision and support to our Out of Hours AMHP Team Manager colleagues
• Ensure sufficient rota cover and to contribute to rotas as an AMHP at times of high demand
• Support the ongoing governance and oversight of conditionally discharged individuals with partner agencies, ensuring the allocation of social supervisors for this purpose.
• Oversight for the recruitment, appointment and development of AMHPs and Trainee AMHPs
• Continue to promote adherence to the National AMHP Service Standards
• Promote anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practice
• Consider opportunities for co-production and co-design for those who come into contact with AMHP Services
• Provide professional leadership and best practice to all AMHPs in DCC
• Contribute to the operational and strategic aims of both the local authority and the Trust
• Promote the role of the AMHP within the wider system, provide strategic insight and operational experience into areas of work, such as Right Care, Right Person and Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space

About us

Professional support and on-going training

All AMHPs and Trainees receive regular individual and peer group supervision and appraisal. Teams are supported to have regular team days. Successful candidates will be expected to contribute to both their own learning and that of others. Devon County Council also offers a programme of post-qualifying AMHP training in order to support your practice and on-going approval as an AMHP.

As a service we are keen to support colleagues to find creative and interesting ways to share specialist AMHP knowledge and support the learning of those outside our team.