Content

9.1

The Assistant
Director for Access Mental Health & Safeguarding introduced the
reports which summarised key issues and risks for the community
mental health social work teams and set out the service responses
to those. The AMHP report accompanied this
report.

 

 

9.2

RESOLVED
UNANIMOUSLY: That Adult Health and Social Care Policy
Committee:-

 

 

 

a.   
Note the contents of the report on community social work teams, and
specifically to be aware of progress and challenges facing the
teams. Specifically:

1.   
Performance

2.   
Recruitment and retention

3.   
Hospital discharges

4.   
Demand

5.   
Acuity
b.   
Note the content of the appendices, the Approved Mental Health
Professional’s (AMHP report), and specifically to be aware of
the following:

1.   
The central AMHP service is support by two contingency groups of
staff:

2.   
‘Bank staff’ who work within SCC as a casual AMHP work
force who can do additional ad hoc shifts when necessary. This pool
of staff will be maintained.

3.   
Community AMHPs - who are based in other social work teams who will
spend 20% of their time working on the AMHP rota from October
2025.

4.   
There is a demand pressure across the mental health system,
particularly in specialist AMHP teams.

5.   
Succession planning is underway to ensure a workforce fit for
purpose in the longer-term.
 

9.3

Reasons for
Decision

 

 

9.3.1

The report is part of a regular update to
committee on both mental health and AMHP
services.

 

 

9.4

Alternatives
Considered and Rejected

 

 

9.4.1

The report is an update on the
mental health community social work teams. Sitting along-side it is
an Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHP) report, which sets
out specific issues relevant to the AMHP service. Both reports are
for information. No decisions are asked
for.