Job summary
Employer heading
AMHP Team Manager
Band 8a
Job overview
As the Team Manager of the Adult Mental Health Professional (AMHP) service within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust (CPFT) you will have a key role in a multi-agency service development review ensuring we deliver the best service to the community.
CPFT has delegated responsibility to deliver statutory mental health Social Work services across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. This role holds responsibility to coordinate and lead the AHMP service, is integral to successful service delivery by offering leadership and supervision whilst engaging with stakeholders and partners to ensure that AHMP processes, standards and regulations are met.
You will have highly developed communication skills that will assist you to establish and maintain effective relationships with people who use the service, internal and external stakeholders.
We are looking for someone with strong leadership and change management skills and a passion for working with people. This senior position requires a highly motivated and innovative individual with a proven track record of delivery.
The role will primarily be based at The Newtown Centre, Huntingdon but there are opportunities for flexible and agile working.
Main duties of the job
We require a Team Manager who can provide professional line management responsibilities and professional leadership to the AMHP Service across Peterborough City and Cambridgeshire County Councils.
The Team Manager will lead a service that is responsive, responsible, accountable, and flexible to the evolving needs of people who use the AMHP Service.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- Providing professional line management responsibilities and professional leadership for the AMHP Service across the Peterborough City and Cambridgeshire County Council areas to ensure safe, effective, and efficient delivery.
- Embedding high quality professional AMHP practice across the AMHP profession, this will include supporting the review and implementation of policy and procedures, with particular emphasis on advanced practice, the role of the social supervisor, competence, and confidence in line with the Statutory Regulations including the provision of AMHP professional supervision and monitoring the delivery of required levels of training.
- Leading a service that is responsive, responsible, accountable, and flexible to the evolving needs of people who use the AMHP service, by working in collaboration with them, and the wider health and care system.
- Ensuring the team undertake assessments in line with strengths and evidence based practice, legislation, policies, and procedures; identifying and planning preventative measures to avoid unnecessary delays in the Mental Health Act process, by embedding quality assurance processes and required approval, re-approval, and removal procedures across the AMHP service.
- Performance management and reporting; meeting and reporting on KPI’s and utilising management information, maintaining operational systems and ensuring all training and development needs are met
- Holding responsibility for utilising and developing their own knowledge of legal frameworks, safeguarding policies and guidance related to “adults at risk”; working at all times in the best interests of the person using the service to ensure best practice is embedded within a culture of continuous improvement.
- Establishing and maintaining effective communication and relationships with people who use the service, internal and external stakeholders that promotes “a lessons learned” approach.
- To utilise highly developed communication skills to effectively impart information to people who use the service and their carers/families and ensure communication is consistent with peoples’ level of understanding, culture, background, and preferred ways of communicating in situations where there may be barriers to understanding and/or acceptance
- Ensuring that communication across the service complies with all relevant legal, professional, and organisational requirements and provides accurate, complete, and contemporaneous records of any communication. Quality assuring team practice and embedding a learning and development culture to meet identified needs.
- Represent health and social care partners with regard to the specialist areas of Mental Health Act work at local and national partnership forums and provide technical advice to senior managers as a result of these.
- To be responsible for safeguarding and risk management; particularly in relation to complex situations and casework and the promotion of positive risk taking
- Ensuring the AMHP service is appropriately resourced, including management of and participation in the MHP rota and participation and oversight of “on-call” arrangements, to ensure that referrals are appropriately and safely completed.
- To demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs.
- To understand the safeguarding working with adults and young people, and work in a person centred, Making Safeguarding Personal way, enabling people to experience positive risk taking.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised professional qualification and registration (as confirmed in MH AMHP Regulations - Schedule 1) (Social Work; Occupational Therapy; Nursing; Psychology)
- Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience and ability to achieve, maintain and deliver quality professional practice and specialist interventions
- Experience of leading and managing teams to achieve high performance
SKills & Abilites
Essential criteria
- Partnership working in the establishment and maintenance of successful and effective relationships across agencies to achieve high quality service delivery and performance standards
- The ability to lead, develop and motivate a multi professional service
- The ability to create accessible ways of working that effectively engage and involve people who use the service
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential criteria
- Excellent up to date knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Human Rights Act, Equalities Act, and other relevant legislation.
- Excellent up to date up to date knowledge of AMHP statutory regulations and reporting requirements
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Deborah Rostant
- Job title
- Head of Social Work Older People Mental Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07517 568871
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