Approved Mental Health Practitioner

Our client Brent council is looking for a Approved Mental Health Practitioner to join their team.

Responsibilities

• To provide a strong social work and social care perspective to the work undertaken in the team and act as a social care expert to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To carry out needs led assessments of service users and their carers and to manage on a time limited or long term basis and meet performance targets.
• To apply Care Act criteria to determine eligibility for social care packages.
• To identify appropriate services to meet appropriate need, and negotiate contracts with providers.
• To provide care plans to service users in receipt of services from the department.
• To regularly monitor and carry out within guidelines of CPA/ Care Act reviews of services and care packages provided to service users within allocated caseload. To update care plans following reviews, and negotiate care packages with service providers.
• To be familiar with Brent's policies and procedures and appropriate legislation procedures and resources.
• To maintain appropriate and up to date service user's records and to provide statistical information and reports as and when required. To co-operate in research projects where appropriate
• To contribute to the development, planning and implementation of policy and practice relating to the care management of service users.