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