37 hours per week
12-month Secondment opportunities are welcomed for this vacancy.
This is an exciting opportunity for an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) to join Bridgend County Borough Council’s AMHP Service located within the Adult Community Mental Health Team. As a Senior Mental Health Coordinator, you will be working within the AMHP service to coordinate a daytime AMHP function for Bridgend County Borough Council. The Senior Mental Health Coordinator will also be expected to contribute to other core activities of the Mental Health Social Work Team, including attending section 117 reviews where no social worker is allocated and undertaking the functions of a Social Supervisor for conditionally discharged patients.
This role will promote and ensure high standards of professional practice specific to the AMHP role across Bridgend County Borough Council. You will oversee and quality assure the practice of AMPH’s across the service.
You will provide expert mental health guidance when triaging Mental Health Act assessments, offering advice to multi-disciplinary colleagues and partners as required.
You will ensure choice and control for individuals and place the person at the centre of their care. You will ensure that the person’s voice and choice will be heard.
To actively promote our ‘Strengths-Based Model of Practice-Working to Achieve Outcomes’.
Candidates will hold Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) status.
For an informal discussion about this post please contact Team Manager Emma-Jayne Roche on 07891330977 or email emma.roche@bridgend.gov.uk
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
An Enhanced Children and Adults Barred list criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.
The council’s Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.
It is desirable that you will be able to converse and respond to correspondence with confidence and ease in Welsh.
A valid driving licence is requirement for this post.
Closing Date: 02 December 2026
Shortlisting Date: 07 December 2026
Interview Date: 10 December 2026
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