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The AMHP role has a key functioning under safeguarding whether it is human rights or alerting and intervening when adults or children are at risk of harm. Safeguarding is about more than protection however. Whether it is prevention or enablement the AMHP has a duty to safeguard whether it be the MHA or by engaging within safeguarding generally.

This one day course gives Approved Mental Health Professionals an opportunity to update their legal knowledge and skills regarding the Nearest Relative as defined under the Mental Health Act 1983. Participants will be encouraged to identify legal and practice issues for discussion during the day.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This one-day session is designed to support AMHPs to refresh their knowledge and understanding of the frameworks and issues that impact when assessing children and young people under the Mental Health Act. The 2015 Code of Practice revisions will be the kept in focus whilst issues such as what constitutes urgent care, what is age-appropriate treatment and when informal admission is an appropriate option are explored. The course will cover the interface between The Children Act 1989 and the Mental Health Act 1983 and give practitioners confidence when working with PR and NR for young people. This session also covers key skills for working with young people in distressing situations.

The Mental Capacity Act 2005, including the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), and the Mental Health Act 1983 cover the care and treatment of people with mental disorders. This course provides an opportunity to explore the interaction and overlap between these Acts and understand how the MCA should underpin decisions about informal admission under s131 of the Mental Health Act. 

The course will include guidance from the Codes of Practice and key case law, utilising case studies to ensure that delegates feel confident with their legal literacy when negotiating this important interface within their AMHP practice. 

This one-day session is designed to support AMHPs to refresh their knowledge and understanding of the frameworks and issues that impact when assessing young people under the Mental Health Act with a particular focus on the diversity needs of young people’s sexuality and gender identity. 

Over the last five years significant caselaw has been considering issues of gender, consent, and competence, and this, along with the range of risks and complexities involved when working with young people will be explored throughout this session. 

Young people may experience additional discrimination, family rejection or struggles with their own identity which can contribute to young people experiencing a mental health crisis. 

It is important for practitioners to have a good understanding and empathy regarding the impact of these issues, but also to be aware of and effectively manage the potential for professional bias and stereotyping.

Autism and Autistic spectrum disorders can currently be defined as a ‘mental disorder’ within the terms of the Mental Health Act, but the way neuro divergence may present, and the impact they can have on how an individual communicates can be misinterpreted or exacerbated by the actions of others, and this needs to be a key consideration for any AMHP undertaking a Mental Health Act Assessment with a person affected by these conditions. 

This one-day AMHP refresher programme looks at the impact Neurodiversity and Neurodivergence can have on the individual, their well-being, communication, and social interactions, considering the impact this can have on both the person’s presentation and the complexity of the assessment task.

This one-day programme will enable professionals to explore emotional resilience and understand and look at how to manage organisational pressure, systemic issues and differences between professions. 

Delegates will be supported to consider how to achieve professional resilience in a safe and effective manner including consideration of time management, supervision, and professional and organisational processes. Delegates will be supported to recognise when their own beliefs, values, experiences, and emotions may be impacting on their practice and how to manage this with the use of good boundaries, critical reflection, self-management, peer support and supervision. 

There will be the opportunity to recognise and accept the impact of the emotive nature of AMHP practice, including how to utilise different techniques to assist them in terms of practicing in a safe, accountable, and defensible manner while protecting their own well-being.

Aim of Session:  To enable staff to improve their ability to assess risk in mental health


AMHP Forums for BCC & BSMHFT AMHP attendance only.


To review the importance of emotional resilience and wellbeing for yourselves at work.


To enable staff to explore issues around Community Treatment Orders.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

LAC(86)15 issued by the Department of Health and Social Security (as was) in 1986:

“Approved social workers should have a wider role than reacting to requests for admission to hospital, making the necessary arrangements and ensuring compliance with the law. They should have the specialist knowledge and skills to make appropriate decisions in respect of both clients and their relatives and to gain the confidence of colleagues in the health services with whom they are required to collaborate. They must be familiar with the day-to-day working of an integrated mental health service and be able to assess what other services may be required and know how to mobilise them. They should have access to, consultation with and supervision from qualified and experienced senior officers. Their role is to prevent the necessity for compulsory admission to hospital as well as to make application where they decide this is appropriate.” 

It is suggested that this statement is as relevant today as it was in 1986


A practitioner based workshop on the use of S117. This workshop will cover the fundamental duties and responsibilities relating to S117 and is an essential starter for staff involved in S117 care planning.

Please note this is part 1 of 3 learning and development activities:

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: S117 Calculating Tool

Part 3: Local Policy and Procedures and MOU

Al of the training is open to Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Doctors from BSMHFT and FTB. The introduction course can also be attended by others occasionally involved in S117 activity.

This one-day course is designed for professional staff that may be required to prepare and write social circumstances and/or facilities reports for Mental Health Tribunals. The course will provide participants with an overview of MHTs, including practitioner responsibilities and requirements, and will focus on good practice in writing reports for tribunal.
 

S117 - Part 2 will consider the joint collaboration and process required by health and social care staff in order for them to successfully complete and then attend a funding panel. This course will introduce staff to the funding tool before demonstrating and suggesting what evidence would be needed in order for health and social care leads to determine costs of a S117 package of care.

The workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to explore their current understanding of the Mental Health Act and how this works with citizens who have ongoing mental health needs. The MHA sets out very specific areas of law in which to practice. The MHA is not only for Approved Mental Health Professionals! If you are working with citizens who have been subject to the MHA then it is good practice to know, understand and work to the principles that are set. This course is an introduction and would benefit group 1 and group 2 level staff. The course is not set out for AMHP's who will have extended, detail knowledge in this area.


 

 

A half day course for staff who have undertaken the one day 'Champion' course or the two day MH First Aid Course. It is advised you undertaken a refresher every 3 years. 

 
 
 

What is Mental Health First Aid? 

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course which teaches people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis. MHFA England training won’t teach you to be a therapist, but just like physical first aid, it will teach you to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis.

Adult MHFA England courses are for everyone aged 16 upwards. Every MHFA England course is delivered by a quality assured Instructor Member who has attended our Instructor Training programme accredited by the Royal Society for Public Health, and is trained to keep people safe and supported while they learn.


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