Approved Mental Health Professional - Huntingdon

Reference: Social Worker Grade: Social Care Salary: £32 to £35 Per Hour Town/City: Huntingdon Contract Type: Contract

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Approved Mental Health Professional - Huntingdon

Main accountabilities

• To provide professional leadership in situations which have highly complex case arrangements for assessment and support planning in situations which involve risk, complexity and safety of the service user and others.
• To provide written and verbal reports which are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence.
• Complete support planning with service users to ensure that outcomes identified at assessment are met within budgetary constraints through the provision of support, equipment, adaptations and enabling programmes.
• Actively engage with, assist and provide advice to carers, conducting carers assessments when appropriate, to enable them to sustain their caring role. Allocate and authorise support packages as appropriate.
• Manage and utilise cash limited budgets in order to commission services and assistance from other sources.
• Lead guide and direct team members to ensure work plans are in place and accountability taken by each team member for the cases held.
• To provide written and verbal reports, appropriate for courts and other legal purposes, which are concise, informative and based on complex evidence to support problem solving and resolution.