Work closely with partner and other agencies to safeguard and support the wellbeing of residents in East Sussex out of hours. Identify and appropriately report children and adult safeguarding concerns, liaising with key agencies to gather information. Work with a range of legal interventions and departmental policies and procedures to support emergency interventions for adults and their carers/families. Maintain a high standard of report writing and record keeping. Undertake a lead role in the team to implement agreed local and national service developments, using good evidenced based practice, based on current research. Undertake a lead role in the team to ensuring an efficient response to referrals for the Departments services, coordinating assessments, risk assessments, case planning and review processes out of hours. Keep the Practice Manager informed of departmental services challenges impacting on the service out of hours. Undertake AMHP duties out of hours. Complete relevant training in order to provide practice placements for AMHP students in training. Provide supervision to any AMHP in the service as required by the Practice Manager, to maintain an up to date knowledge of Mental Health Act case law to enable supervision of others. To take a lead in ensuring AMHP supervisees undertake AMHP refresher training and attend relevant AMHP meetings. Independently Commission appropriate services in an emergency to meet unmet care needs out of hours. Provide advice and support to Health and Social Care Connect call handlers as required. Make on-call Operations Manager aware of any significant events requiring more senior management oversight.