Approved Mental Health Professional – AMHP Hub

Job description

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) position within its client's AMHP Hub based in Wiltshire. 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. **What will your responsibilities be?** - Participating in the AMHP duty rota and undertaking statutory AMHP responsibilities under the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended). - Undertaking Mental Health Act assessments and determining the need for compulsory admission, detention, guardianship, or Community Treatment Orders where appropriate. - Completing urgent assessments of adults with suspected social care and mental health needs, ensuring individuals and carers are protected from harm. - Coordinating Mental Health Act assessments and taking responsibility, alongside partner agencies, for the safety and wellbeing of all participants involved in the assessment process. - Managing a varied and complex caseload involving adults with mental health needs, risk factors, safeguarding concerns, and complex social circumstances. - Undertaking Care Act assessments, reviews, care planning, and social work interventions to support independence and recovery. - Completing Mental Capacity Assessments and applying the Mental Capacity Act 2005 within practice. - Responding to referrals, undertaking duty work, and providing timely intervention to individuals experiencing mental health crises. - Undertaking risk assessments and implementing risk management plans to support safe and effective interventions. - Working collaboratively with mental health services, Adult Social Care teams, NHS professionals, carers, families, and partner agencies. - Undertaking safeguarding enquiries and ensuring vulnerable adults are protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. - Providing supervision, support, and guidance to students, trainees, and unqualified staff where appropriate. - Maintaining accurate, timely, and legally compliant case records, assessments, reports, and documentation. - Participating in regular supervision, training, and AMHP development activities to maintain professional standards and AMHP approval. **Qualifications & Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have, - Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, RMN, Occupational Therapy qualification, or equivalent recognised qualification. - Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England or the relevant professional regulatory body. - AMHP Qualification: Must hold a current Approved Mental Health Professional qualification and approval. - Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Mental Health Services and/or Adult Social Care. - Legislation Knowledge: Extensive knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Human Rights legislation, and Adult Safeguarding procedures. - Mental Health Experience: Strong understanding of mental health conditions, crisis intervention, assessment, and risk management. - Assessment Skills: Proven ability to undertake complex assessments and formulate effective intervention and support plans. - Multi-Agency Working: Experience working collaboratively with mental health services, health professionals, police, carers, and other partner agencies. - Communication Skills: Excellent communication, report-writing, negotiation, and decision-making skills. - Professional Practice: Commitment to person-centred, compassionate, anti-discriminatory, and strengths-based practice. - Driving Licence: Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is desirable due to the county-wide nature of the service. **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. BH - 202282 GH - 36121