Lead Approved Mental Health Professional

Location: Kendal/Penrith/Barrow

Contract Type: Permanent

About this opportunity

Are you a passionate, experienced Approved Mental Health Professional ready to take on a role that will give you the chance to help lead, develop, and support a team of enthusiastic Approved Mental Health Professionals?

Westmorland and Furness Council have a vacancy for A lead Approved Mental Health Professional who will also manage the out of hours team. This will include leading a team of Approved Mental Health Professionals and ensure that any Mental Health Act work is completed to a high standard alongside ensuring that Care Act duties are completed outside of daytime hours.

We are a passionate, innovative service, dedicated to empowering and enabling adults to have a good quality of life, valuing their unique qualities, strengths and rights. Putting our communities and the people we support at the very heart of everything we do.

As a team manager you will work closely with the team to support team planning, performance management, development and maintaining a positive, strengths-based culture throughout our Service. You will ensure that interventions are strengths-based and that support delivered is person-centred support ensuring that people have their outcomes met.

As the lead Approved Mental Health Professional you will have proven experience of working as an Approved Mental Health Professional and will be able to ensure the necessary standards are encapsulated within mental health practice in Westmorland and Furness.

Who we are looking for…

We are looking for motivated people who share our passion and vision for Adult Social Care who have the ability to:

• Create innovative, strengths-based solutions with individuals and carers.
• Create and maintain a culture that enables and empowers staff and individuals alike.
• The ability to plan interventions to be implemented for customers individually.
• The ability to confidently identify and challenge inappropriate practice.
• You will need to be an Approved Mental Health Professional who has, an in-depth knowledge and understanding of your own professional area of practice and the issues currently faced within Adult Social Care.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiating, conciliating, people management, written and verbal communication, and motivational skills, are all also essential to the role.

What can we offer you!

Working at Westmorland and Furness Council you will receive a variety of benefits, including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and other various perks and discounts schemes. For more information about life at Westmorland and Furness Council and what we can offer you, please visit our Careers site. Our benefits | Careers (westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk)

Would you like to find out more?

If you have any queries about this role or would like an informal chat about this opportunity, then please contact Jo Smillie at [email protected]

Application and Interview information

Closing date: 31st August 2025