{"id":38,"date":"2014-05-01T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/scwd\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2020-07-30T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T11:15:24","slug":"approved-mental-health-professionals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/adult-social-care-and-health\/approved-mental-health-professionals","title":{"rendered":"Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re-approval<\/p>\n<p>It is essential that any AMHP employed by Devon County Council convenes their five year re-approval meeting in good time to ensure their new warrants can be processed, if all the criteria has been met.<\/p>\n<p>The refresher menu is provided to ensure you can access the appropriate training to meet the requirements of the 5 year Reapproval process.<\/p>\n<p>As quoted in the Approval and Re-approval Guidance \u2018The AMHP will need to provide their Portfolio, which will include evidence of four MHA&#8217;s per Year, training attended (30 hours per year &#8211; <strong>18 of which MUST be specialist to Mental Health)<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/r\/sites\/SocCareComm\/AdultStaffRefGroup\/_layouts\/15\/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7BE0F19537-5C0A-4385-A48D-54567533B1BE%7D&amp;file=AMHP%26Re-Approval%20Guidance%20Nov18.docx&amp;action=default&amp;mobileredirect=true\" rel=\"noopener\">Approved and re-approval guidance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In line with discussion from the AMHP Advisory Committee and the National trend the AMHP Training programme is changing.\u00a0 Training will now take place in May \/ June and September \/ October, the training being duplicated.<\/p>\n<p>In brief, you will now\u00a0 be required to attend each of the following:-<\/p>\n<p>Day for All \u2013 one day in May \/ June or September \/ October.<\/p>\n<p>Promoting Inclusion and Challenging Discrimination &#8211; March and November.<\/p>\n<p>Portfolio Day \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0September \/ October.<\/p>\n<p>AMHP Good Practice Day &#8211; April.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/devon.learningpool.com\/login\/index.php\" rel=\"noopener\">Find Training Courses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-approval It is essential that any AMHP employed by Devon County Council convenes their five year re-approval meeting in good time to ensure their new warrants can be processed, if all the criteria has been met. The refresher menu is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/adult-social-care-and-health\/approved-mental-health-professionals\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs)\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"parent":5982,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 08:14:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/5664"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workforcedevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}