Location
London

Hours
Full Time - 36 hours per week

Salary
£55,353 - £57,495 per annum (Grade PO5)

About the Role
Are you an experienced, confident Approved Mental Health Practitioner (AMHP) ready for a senior practice role that focuses on leadership, expert decision-making, and mentoring colleagues? Join the London Borough of Hackney, a progressive and dynamic authority committed to social justice and becoming an anti-racist borough. Within the Integrated Mental Health Service (IMHS), you will play a vital statutory role ensuring residents receive timely, safe, and legally compliant interventions under the Mental Health Act.

As a Senior AMHP, you will provide leadership, expert practice support, and oversight from the AMHP Desk, working closely with the AMHP Team Manager to drive quality and confidence within the service. Your key responsibilities will include acting as a senior decision-maker in complex or high-risk situations, providing day-to-day guidance to AMHP colleagues, coordinating referrals, delivering reflective supervision and mentoring, and contributing to quality assurance and continuous service improvement.

Hackney Council values its staff highly and offers a supportive management structure with clear opportunities for career progression. Benefits include access to mentoring, reflective supervision, continuing professional development, flexible working options, tenancy deposit loans, discounted gym membership, and more. We actively welcome applications from those interested in flexible working arrangements.

We are committed to creating a workplace that celebrates diversity, inclusion, and fairness, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds. If you want to work in a place where you can represent our values and help achieve the best outcomes for our residents, we encourage you to apply.

Experience
- Current approval as an Approved Mental Health Practitioner with substantial post-qualification experience.
- Proven experience working in complex, high-pressure situations making proportionate and legally compliant decisions.
- Experience providing leadership, mentoring, and reflective supervision within a mental health practice setting.

About You
- Confident and experienced AMHP ready to take on senior leadership responsibilities.
- Commitment to trauma-informed, anti-racist, and strengths-based practice.
- Ability to work collaboratively and supportively within a diverse team.
- Strong decision-making skills with a focus on safe and proportionate outcomes.

Qualifications
- Recognised social work qualification with current registration with Social Work England.
- Current approval as an Approved Mental Health Practitioner (AMHP).
- Excellent knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, and Care Act.