Approved Mental Health Professional - Homeless Mental Health Service

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair:
  We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop:
  We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower:
  We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate:
  We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable:
  We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect:
  We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

We have a simple vision and strategy that defines what we are trying to achieve, our purpose and our approach which underpin the principles of Adult Social Care, and we continue to work in support of this.

In a simple sense all our work, at whatever level should continue to support the strategy of: ‘Providing support, in the least intrusive manner possible, based on the assets, resources and abilities that are available to people’.

Over the last 3 years Coventry AMHP service has co‑produced an AMHP role with the NHS Homeless Mental Health Service that in‑reaches into this service for 11 hours per week. The purpose of this role has been to reduce the discrimination that individuals who experience mental disorder, homelessness and who use substances and/or alcohol at a harmful level. However, grant funded monies via the West Midlands Combined Authority have now been secured to fund a full‑time AMHP post for 3 years.

The AMHP will be required to work alongside colleagues from the Homeless Mental Health Service, as well as statutory and third sector services providing mental health, homelessness and substance/ alcohol services. The role will require a flexible and creative approach, but also one that fits within an assertive model to enable successful engagement with people, their families or carers from within this client group.

You will also promote the bio‑psycho‑social model of mental disorder.

You will be required to fully discharge the local authority’s duties under s.13 Mental Health Act (1983), thereby triaging MHA(1983) requests and undertaking MHA(1983) assessments. As well as considering other legal frameworks, including those found under Care Act (2014). Given the level of powerlessness and discrimination that the group experiences, you will be required to advocate on behalf of individuals you are working with and ensure that all agencies are fulfilling their duty to that person and/ or actions required in accordance with policy, procedure and funding.

Safeguarding will also form a significant element of your work.

As the AMHP within this team, you will provide a high level of…