Assistant Team Manager - Approved Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be a confident and experienced AMHP invested in your own personal development and of others. The successful post holder will provide guidance and management of complex cases and ensure that tasks requiring the AMHP role outside of the remit of a daily rota are completed to a high standard.

You will receive excellent support, supervision and training from the AMHP Team Manager and the other Assistant Team Manager (AMHP Senior Practitioner). There will also be many opportunities to access AMHP refresher training from the Thames Valley Consortium, as well as national training and forums.

Please see job summary for more information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• - Recognised Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, other Allied
• Health Professional qualification or Level 5 Certificate in Health and
• Social Care
• - Evidence of consistent pattern of learning and development

• - Additional management qualification

Experience

• - Demonstrable experience in successful recruiting, performance
• managing, coaching and developing staff
• - Extensive, sophisticated and up to date working knowledge of
• relevant national and local policy, statutory guidance and legislation
• in relation to the provision of Health and Social Care services
• - A detailed and applied knowledge of relevant legislation including
• the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and their
• application across a range of complex situations
• - Applied knowledge of current policies and procedures for the line
• management of staff including sickness, capability and disciplinary
• procedures
• - Knowledge of Practice Education and student placement, and
• knowledge of the role of the assessor for newly qualified Staff
• - Ability to promote positive working relationships in and across
• teams, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
• - Ability to contribute to and provide professional leadership of
• organisational change and development and address performance
• management issues that arise.
• - Ability to communicate effectively in highly charged, complex or
• challenging situations to a wide range of audiences for different
• purposes and at different levels, including public speaking.
• - Ability to model and promote a culture of clear communication,
• supporting the development of effective communication skills in
• others.
• - Ability to influence organisational development pro-actively using
• feedback from your area of responsibility
• - Ability to gather information to inform judgement for interventions
• in more complex situations and in response to challenge.
• - Ability to routinely explain professional reasoning, judgements and
• decisions made and record these in a clear concise way.
• - Ability to use knowledge to make complex judgements in uncertain
• and ambiguous situations, supporting others to do the same
• - Excellent partnership working skills with an ability to communicate
• and collaborate effectively with partners in statutory, voluntary and
• third sector organisations.
• - Competent in the use of IT and case management systems
• - Good problem solving and analytical skills with the capacity to devise
• and implement innovative solutions
• - Experience of the application of professional ethics to decision
• making using a legal and human rights framework
• - Extensive post qualification or management experience (usually 4
• years) working in a health, social care or community setting
• - Experience of managing risk, ensuring that there is a positive balance
• between perceived risk and protection from harm when necessary
• - Experience of providing professional reflective supervision to a range
• of staff
• - Experience of promoting a culture which supports empathic
• compassionate relationships with other professionals, people who
• use services and those who care for them
• - Enhanced DBS clearance is required
• - Ability to travel to and access offices and provision across the county
• - Registration and maintenance of registration with Social Work
• England or HCPC

• - Additional management qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Buckinghamshire Council

Address

The Whiteleaf Centre

Bierton Road

Aylesbury

Buckinghamshire

HP20 1EG

https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/