Approved Mental Health Professional

Approved Mental Health Professional
Location: South East
Pay rate:  £37 per hour

We are looking for experienced and passionate AMHP to join a dedicated Team in Greater London. As part of the Team you will be part of a fast paced, busy and supportive team. You will have the responsibility to co-ordinate an assessment and demonstrates the principles of the Mental Health Act e.g. the least restrictive principle and the participation principle. You will need to ensure the person is appropriately interviewed and if admitted to hospital that they are conveyed there in the most humane and dignified manner.

You will provide the Council’s statutory emergency duty response outside of office hours, weekends and bank holidays in difficult and complex situations. The role holder will respond to adults in need of mental health assessment, safeguarding and social care emergency intervention.
 
The role holder will be responsible for the safe delivery of social care, ensuring the effective discharge of statutory responsibilities and the provision of a high quality standard of service. The role holder will manage safeguarding risk effectively, working within a multiagency environment to provide a professional social work service. Role holder will work in a holistic and person centred way, ensuring customers and families remain central to the processes they are part of.
 
The AMHP has the authority to apply for detention under the Mental Health Act and to agree to requests for Community Treatment Orders and Guardianship requests. For those trained as a Best Interest Assessor (BIAs), they can recommend a “deprivation of liberty” under the Mental Capacity Act.
 
Perfect candidate will be:

• Professional Social Work qualification and to be registered with the Social Work England.
• Must be qualified AMHP
• Post qualification experience, along with experience of working with complex cases.
• Willing to consent to and apply for an enhanced disclosure check.
• Must be able to work out of hours including weekends and Bank Holidays to ensure a

24/7 all year around service.
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This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

This role is ideally located for those travelling from Hammersmith, Chiswick, Wembley, City of London, Wimbledon, Fulham, Lambeth, London, Twickenham, High Wycombe, Slough, Maidenhead, Bracknell, Guildford, Richmond & Wandsworth, Croydon, Bromley, Dartford, Romford, Watford, Barking and Dagenham, Hackney, Havering, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Ilford, Chelmsford, Brixton, Barking, Southwark, Mitcham and Woolwich.
 
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Children Looked After, Localities, Children in Need. Child Protection, Court,  Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, AMHP, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.