Mental Health Act Administrator

Job Overview

The Mental Health Act is complex and interesting. Understanding those complexities and maintaining an interest are both key to the success of the role and to ensuring the Trust receives a service that delivers and is responsive not only to service demands but also to changes in legislation.

The Mental Health Act Office undertakes to deliver a service that ensures the Trust’s compliance with the legalities of both the Act itself and the Code of Practice. Under the direction of the Senior Mental Health Act Administrator and direct management of the Deputy to the above, the Mental Health Act Administrator is expected to provide a professional, efficient and seamless service to the Trust in accordance with the requirements of the Act.

The success of the role and the performance of the central Mental Health Act Office is dependent on the MHA Administrator’s success in establishing working partnerships with both internal and external bodies, this is an essential element of the role which necessitates communication in matters of both a sensitive and significant nature.

Contact details for further information about the role: Alison Wheelton, ***email_hidden*** - View phone number on uk.workus.org

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

To support the delivery of the objectives within the Mental Health Act (MHA) Annual Work Plan including:

• Provision of the delivery of the MHA service in accordance with procedural and legislative requirements with minimal supervision.
• To undertake duties consummate with the role as delegated within the Trust Scheme of Delegation, namely:
• The receipt and scrutiny of statutory forms and arranging rectification in accordance with legislative requirements.
• Providing or seeking advice on points of legislation.
• Ensuring reporting requirements are met in accordance with legal and organisational requirements.
• Providing administrative support to the bodies with responsibility for patient hearings.
• Maintaining flagging systems in place to support clinical staff in meeting their legislative requirements using an excel based system.
• Maintaining patient records, both in paper and electronic format, ensuring they are accessible and current.
• To work closely with all staff to ensure local and national requirements are met.
• Ensure incident reports are completed and lessons learnt are shared within the Department where appropriate.
• To liaise with external organisations within areas of responsibility.

For more information, please review our Job Description and Person Specification.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.