AMHP Hub Team Leader

The Service & Team:

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Cornwall Council as a AMHP Hub Team Manager within the 24/7 Mental Health AMHP Hub Duty Service. This dynamic and fastpaced team operates as a centralised countywide service providing statutory Mental Health Act assessments and consultation across Cornwall. The role is integral to the delivery of highquality personcentred mental health interventions and requires strong operational oversight clinical knowledge and strategic thinking.

Key Responsibilities:

Operational Leadership

• Take joint responsibility for the effective daytoday operation of the AMHP Hub ensuring that the 24/7 duty rota is appropriately staffed and that statutory functions are delivered consistently and safely.
• Actively participate in a reduced number of Mental Health Act assessments to maintain AMHP approval and practice credibility.
• Monitor workload allocation prioritise urgent assessments and provide clear guidance during complex or highrisk situations.

Team and Staff Management

• Provide professional leadership and line management to a team of AMHPs offering regular reflective supervision peer supervision performance appraisals and support with continuing professional development.
• Foster a culture of learning wellbeing and collaboration within the team ensuring all staff have access to development opportunities and feel supported in their roles.
• Lead on staff recruitment induction retention strategies and succession planning to ensure service resilience.

Practice Governance and Legal Oversight

• Ensure team practice is compliant with all relevant legislation including the Mental Health ActMental Capacity Act Care Act Human Rights Act and associated Codes of Practice.
• Offer expert legal advice to practitioners and wider stakeholders regarding statutory powers least restrictive principles and the interface with safeguarding and risk management.

Communication and Partnership Working

• Act as a key link between the AMHP Hub community mental health services inpatient units emergency services and partner agencies.
• Develop strong working relationships with health colleagues police ambulance services and the voluntary sector to support timely coordinated responses to mental health crises.
• Ensure consistent and transparent communication between frontline staff and senior leadership escalating risks resource needs and good practice examples as required.

Quality Assurance and Service Development

• Lead on the development implementation and review of systems policies and procedures that underpin safe and effective AMHP practice.
• Use performance data audit findings and case analysis to inform practice improvements and contribute to service development.
• Participate in and support inspection audit and peer review processes as part of a wider commitment to continuous quality improvement.

Strategic and Financial Awareness

• Contribute to the delivery of services that are costeffective legally sound and aligned with strategic priorities of Cornwall Councils Adult Social Care and Mental Health Services.
• Support the Service Manager in identifying pressures service gaps and opportunities for innovation.

Working Pattern:

The team operates a 24hour 7 day a week service working with people presenting with acute mental health needs and is supported through a flexible shift arrangement designed to meet service demand and operational requirements. While the Team Manager will be required to primarily work Monday to Friday a flexible approach is essential to support the needs of the service when required. Enhancements are payable for working unsocial hours together with On Call payments as per policy.

This is a full time position. In line with Cornwall Council Policy flexible working options are available for this role such as compressed hours and hybrid work arrangements.

What youll need to succeed:

Essential Requirements:

• Social Work qualification or equivalent professional registration.
• Current Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) warrant.
• Demonstrable experience in mental health services including leadership or management of staff.
• Indepth knowledge of statutory frameworks safeguarding risk assessment and rightsbased approaches.
• Excellent communication organisational and decisionmaking skills with a calm confident approach in highpressure situations.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national awardwinning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Stephanie Henshaw Service Manager

This is a public/customerfacing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a standard criminal record disclosure check.

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted so please contactif you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.