AMHP Team Manager - United Kingdom - Wales Medicines Strategy Group

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Main area Approved Mental Health Professionals Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time hours per week (some out of hours ensuring the health and safety of AMHPs.) Job ref 310-MASMH

Employer Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site New Town Centre Town Huntingdon Salary £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 02/05/2024 23:59

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit .

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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