Team Manager, Bolton Approved Mental Health Professional

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This vacancy is for a permanent Team Manager of the Bolton Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) Hub, a statutory Adult Social Care service based at Rivington Mental Health Unit, Royal Bolton Hospital. The post is full-time (37 hours), graded Level K, with essential car user status.

The Team Manager provides operational leadership and line management for the weekday AMHP Hub, ensuring compliance with the Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Care Act 2014. The role is responsible for delivering a responsive, high-quality AMHP service, managing demand, overseeing rota arrangements, and ensuring effective coordination with partners and the Emergency Duty Team.

The postholder provides professional supervision and support to AMHPs, social workers and trainee AMHPs, oversees AMHP approval processes, and promotes continuous professional development. They lead quality assurance activity, including audits, policy development and the embedding of evidence-based, strengths-focused practice, while supporting staff wellbeing and safe practice.

The role includes responsibility for governance, safeguarding, risk management and performance monitoring. This involves ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, analysing performance data, responding to complaints and enquiries, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing National AMHP Standards locally.

The Team Manager works closely with health, police and other partner agencies, representing the local authority on mental health matters and contributing to local and regional forums. The post also supports workforce development through AMHP training, student placements, practice education and engagement with professional networks

The successful candidate will be a qualified and registered social worker with Social Work England and must be currently approved as an AMHP. They will bring substantial experience of AMHP practice, alongside demonstrated leadership and management capability within complex, high pressure environments.

The role requires a detailed and up to date understanding of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding frameworks and the wider mental health system, as well as proven experience in performance management, quality improvement, risk management and service development. Strong communication skills, professional credibility, the ability to influence across organisational boundaries and confidence in using data and digital systems are essential, as is the ability to lead teams through change while maintaining a strong focus on staff wellbeing, professional values and excellent outcomes for people who use services.

As Team Manager you will provide professional line management and professional leadership for the safe, effective and efficient delivery of the Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHP) service in accordance with professional standards across Trafford. Whilst reporting into the Head of Service for Mental Health, you will also be expected to work in collaboration with the broader leadership teams within Adult Social Care and partner agencies.

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

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Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Employment offers are conditional subject to satisfactory clearances. For roles where a criminal records check from the DBS is required, this includes satisfactory clearance of this check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of an individual’s offence/s. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here. Bolton Council’s policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders is available here.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk

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