Approved Mental Health Professional

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Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

Approved Mental Health Professional Substantive Post  37 hours

North Northamptonshire Council is seeking to recruit an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) from a social work, mental health and learning disabilities nurse or occupational therapist background who is registered with their respective regulator to join a substantive post within the daytime AMHP service.
  

The AMHP team is responsible for responding to requests for assessments under the Mental Health Act 1983. As an AMHP you would be expected to provide high quality assessments with a clear social perspective, good social work values including a strengths-based approach. This would be alongside meeting the requirements of the Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Care Act 2014. As well as applying relevant Codes of Practice, local policies, and taking into account emerging case law in this area. Commitment to your own professional development, including maintaining up-to-date knowledge of mental health issues is key. Including maintaining CPD & engaging with relevant training opportunities.
 
 The AMHP service runs with a small team of substantive AMHPs alongside other AMHPs who work on a duty basis and predominantly otherwise work within other adult social care teams in North Northamptonshire or West Northamptonshire Councils. We also have AMHP colleagues who are otherwise based with local mental health services. We are a friendly and supportive team.

The AMHP service is currently based at Olympus House, Northampton, however will be moving to Haylock House, Kettering March 2026 [Approximately] The AMHP Team is hosted by North Northamptonshire Council, in partnership with West Northamptonshire Council and provides a service across the whole of Northamptonshire.  The daytime AMHP team operates on a duty system with a shift pattern primarily of 9am to 5pm, and 1pm to 9pm, Monday to Friday. Our out of hours AMHP and adults service provide an AMHP response at other times.

 This post is subject to satisfactory references.
 The post is subject to an enhanced (Adults and Children) DBS check.
 Please refer to our AMHP job description and person specification

EADS (Employment and Disability Service) are our specialist supported employment service. If you require any support to access this opportunity or our NNC recruitment process, please contact EADS directly on 07776 550531

 For further information / informal discussion please contact: Sarah Jenkins, AMHP Team Manager (mob: 07753 442 033) 

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)