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1. Providing professional line management responsibilities and professional leadership for the AMHP Service across the Peterborough City and Cambridgeshire County Council areas to ensure safe, effective, and efficient delivery.
2. Embedding high quality professional AMHP practice across the AMHP profession, this will include supporting the review and implementation of policy and procedures, with particular emphasis on advanced practice, the role of the social supervisor, competence, and confidence in line with the Statutory Regulations including the provision of AMHP professional supervision and monitoring the delivery of required levels of training.
3. Leading a service that is responsive, responsible, accountable, and flexible to the evolving needs of people who use the AMHP service, by working in collaboration with them, and the wider health and care system.
4. Ensuring the team undertake assessments in line with strengths and evidence based practice, legislation, policies, and procedures; identifying and planning preventative measures to avoid unnecessary delays in the Mental Health Act process, by embedding quality assurance processes and required approval, re-approval, and removal procedures across the AMHP service.
5. Performance management and reporting; meeting and reporting on KPI’s and utilising management information, maintaining operational systems and ensuring all training and development needs are met
6. Holding responsibility for utilising and developing their own knowledge of legal frameworks, safeguarding policies and guidance related to “adults at risk”; working at all times in the best interests of the person using the service to ensure best practice is embedded within a culture of continuous improvement.
7. Establishing and maintaining effective communication and relationships with people who use the service, internal and external stakeholders that promotes “a lessons learned” approach.
8. To utilise highly developed communication skills to effectively impart information to people who use the service and their carers/families and ensure communication is consistent with peoples’ level of understanding, culture, background, and preferred ways of communicating in situations where there may be barriers to understanding and/or acceptance
9. Ensuring that communication across the service complies with all relevant legal, professional, and organisational requirements and provides accurate, complete, and contemporaneous records of any communication. Quality assuring team practice and embedding a learning and development culture to meet identified needs.
10. Represent health and social care partners with regard to the specialist areas of Mental Health Act work at local and national partnership forums and provide technical advice to senior managers as a result of these.
11. To be responsible for safeguarding and risk management; particularly in relation to complex situations and casework and the promotion of positive risk taking
12. Ensuring the AMHP service is appropriately resourced, including management of and participation in the MHP rota and participation and oversight of “on-call” arrangements, to ensure that referrals are appropriately and safely completed. 
13. To demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs. 
14. To understand the safeguarding working with adults and young people, and work in a person centred, Making Safeguarding Personal way, enabling people to experience positive risk taking.