AMHP Senior Social Worker

Location: Essex

Reference number: RQ18050

Supply Care Solutions are a market-leading Medical, Social Care and Education recruitment consultancy, we offer a range of accredited services across the public sector, providing highly skilled, compliant professionals in all grades and specialties, including short, long term and permanent positions.

Type: Permanent Work

Hours: Full time (Monday to Friday) 37 hours

Salary: £45,217 to £54,395 per annum

Location: Affiliated with North/Mid AMHP Hub and Essex wide as required.

Working Style: Community Style

This role involves working a condensed week (37 hours per week across 4 weekdays). The successful postholder will be expected to be office based from either the Colchester or Basildon office.

Job profile:

The Approved Mental Health Professional Service has a unique position in ensuring compliance with the statutory functions imposed upon the Local Authority by the Mental Health Act. The service will be responsible for delivering the AMHP rota. The service will undertake statutory assessments, triaging initial enquiries in line with statutory duties.

As a Senior Social Worker you will be passionate and experienced in demonstrating expert and effective practice in complex situations often in pressurized environments. You will be able to manage workloads and support colleagues with complex cases, with an ability to mitigate high levels of risk. You will work collaboratively with statutory and non-statutory/voluntary agencies ensuring a joined-up approach.

You will have significant experience of social work, modelling good practice, triaging mental health act referrals, prioritizing responses, giving direction to others and providing expert advice and guidance.

Additionally, you will be responsible for:

Providing supervision, specialist advice and professional expertise for AMHPs contributing to the development of practice standards.
Accountable for assessments you undertake under the Mental Health Act.
Working within the statutory legal framework, policy and guidance and determining when the threshold for statutory intervention has been reached in line with legislative and organisational standards within the Care Act 2015 (e.g. MCA/DoLS/CHC assessments etc). Specifically, to carry out and manage the process of MHA assessments, identifying least restrictive options and acting as an autonomous professional consistent with legal and statutory obligations.
Managing a complex workload, maintaining accurate and timely data, reports and presentations as required.
Carrying out, coordinating and managing the process of Mental Health Act assessments, consistent with legal and statutory obligations working flexibly and at times outside the core operating hours of the team in accordance with demand.
Conducting assessments under the Mental Health Act 1983 and plan responses which safeguard vulnerable adults, including intervention as required that may be beyond normal operating hours.
Working collaboratively with the deputy team manager to coordinate, triage and allocate the incoming referrals to the service supporting and directing the wider AMHPs on the rota and assisting to bring their work to a satisfactory conclusion.
Building strong effective working relationships across the Council, with partners and members of voluntary agencies.
Delivering a high level of expertise in particular areas of practice and interest and lead on those areas.

Benefits:

Training and development to empower you from our award-winning Essex Social Care Academy.
With us you can make your career work for you with flexible working options
With us you can get the support you need with employee wellbeing and counselling
Lease Car scheme
Up to £8000 for relocation*
With us you can have peace of mind with life assurance of three times annual salary
Payment of professional fees for approved professions
Volunteering leave
27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with service
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – access to free and confidential information, support, and guidance from a team of highly qualified professionals.

How TO APPLY- Please send the following below:

Please send the following :

Updated CV (NO GAPS)

Right to work in the UK(Passport,Visa, biometric card etc)

National Insurance Number & DOB

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