Mental Health Senior Practitioner/AMHP

Grade points 39 – 41 £44,790 to £46,839 pa (this includes x2 additional points if AMHP)

Permanent, Full Time contract

Ref: 7558

The London Borough of Enfield Health and Adult Social Care Department seeks experienced Mental Health Social Workers & AMHPs to fill vacancies in our fully integrated multidisciplinary Community Mental Health Team’s, and centralized AMHP Service.

The Mental Health Community Locality Team provides an exciting opportunity for creativity and to make a difference in vulnerable people’s lives. 

This role provides excellent and exciting opportunities in a leadership role with opportunities to contribute to the development, training and shaping of social work practitioners practice, varied AMHP practice, and participation in the AMHP Training Program.

If you’re looking for an interesting challenge, rewarding position with good professional peer support/supervision or looking to influence and shape social work and AMHP practice, then this could be it?

We seek imaginative and dynamic social work practitioners who are able to make positive contributes to the transformation of mental health social care, ascertaining a social recovering model, working in meaningful partnerships with service users, carers and families. You will make full use of person-centred assessment; strengths-based principals and planning skills, with a focus on recovery, and wellbeing outcomes.

Enfield is a beacon council in independent living for people with disabilities and is fully committed to the personalization agenda in mental health. We offer a supportive, learning environment through individual and group supervision with excellent professional development and training opportunities. Employed by Enfield Local Authority and seconded to Barnet, Enfield & Haringey NHS Mental Health Trust you will benefit from positive practical working partnerships between the two organizations.

Enfield is situated in North London and is a culturally diverse borough. Its ward’s cover amongst the 20% most affluent and deprived in the country, and has industrial, residential and countryside. It has good transport links into Central London and is easily assessable being adjacent to the M25 and A406 with good transport links to the rest of the country.

If you’re looking for interesting opportunities, want to further your career, or want to contribute too integrated multidisciplinary working for the wellbeing of service users; and can work with professional autonomy as an AMHP. And if you’re motivated and enthusiastic over personalized services, then we would like to hear from you; we could be your next step?

Why it's great to work for Enfield Council

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Up to 31 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working.

To apply please go to https://www.jobs.enfield.gov.uk/fe/tpl_enfield01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=117724,2376122565&key=228625451&c=51352312525936&pagestamp=seofwnishvbunpmlzm or visit   www.jobs.enfield.gov.uk

Closing Date – at 23:59 on Tuesday 4th January 2022

If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Claire Turner, Senior Recruitment Consultant on 0208 132 1024 or claire.turner@enfield.gov.uk

For an informal discussion please contact Debbie Morgan, MH Senior Operations Services Manager – 07903 970387 or Lucy Omezi Community Rehab Services Manager – 07580 881049

“This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment”.