Description
Our client based in Wiltshire is seeking an experienced Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) to join their AMHP Hub. This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative Mental Health service where teamwork, wellbeing, professional development, and person-centred practice are at the heart of service delivery.
The successful candidate will work as part of a specialist Mental Health team providing social care interventions for individuals who meet the threshold for secondary mental health services. Working closely with health partners, Adult Social Care teams, carers, and wider community services, you will play a key role in protecting vulnerable adults, undertaking urgent assessments, managing risk, and ensuring individuals receive timely and appropriate interventions.
This role requires a skilled, compassionate, and resilient practitioner who can exercise professional judgement in complex situations whilst ensuring that the dignity, rights, wellbeing, and safety of individuals remain central to all decision-making.
Benefits of the Role
- Competitive hourly rate
- Flexible working arrangements
- Supportive and collaborative team environment
- Regular supervision and professional development opportunities
- Opportunity to enhance and maintain AMHP practice
- Access to specialist mental health and multi-agency experience
- Dedicated consultant and compliance support from Liquid Personnel
Responsibilities
- Participate in the AMHP duty rota and undertake statutory AMHP responsibilities under the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended).
- Complete Mental Health Act assessments and determine the need for compulsory admission, detention, guardianship, or Community Treatment Orders where appropriate.
- Undertake urgent assessments of adults with mental health and social care needs.
- Coordinate Mental Health Act assessments and ensure the safety and wellbeing of all participants involved.
- Manage a varied and complex caseload involving mental health concerns, safeguarding issues, risk management, and complex social circumstances.
- Complete Care Act assessments, reviews, care planning, and social work interventions to promote recovery and independence.
- Undertake Mental Capacity Assessments and apply the Mental Capacity Act 2005 appropriately within practice.
- Respond to referrals, undertake duty work, and provide timely intervention during mental health crises.
- Assess, manage, and reduce risks through effective risk assessment and risk management planning.
- Work collaboratively with NHS professionals, mental health services, carers, families, police, and partner agencies.
- Undertake safeguarding enquiries and ensure adults are protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
- Provide guidance and support to students, trainees, and unqualified staff where appropriate.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and legally compliant records, reports, assessments, and documentation.
- Participate in supervision, training, and continuing AMHP development activities.
Qualifications and Experience Required
- MA, BA, or BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Occupational Therapy qualification, or an equivalent recognised professional qualification.
- Current registration with Social Work England or the relevant professional regulatory body.
- Current Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) qualification and approval.
- Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care and/or Mental Health Services.
- Extensive knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Human Rights legislation, and Adult Safeguarding procedures.
- Proven experience undertaking Mental Health Act assessments, crisis intervention, and risk management.
- Strong assessment, care planning, and decision-making skills within complex environments.
- Experience working collaboratively with NHS services, mental health professionals, police, carers, and partner agencies.
- Excellent communication, report-writing, negotiation, and problem-solving abilities.
- Commitment to person-centred, strengths-based, anti-discriminatory, and compassionate practice.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable.
How to Apply
If you're interested in this role, click Apply Now or contact us for more information.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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