Mental Health

**Fixed term**: 7 months

Working Pattern will cover 8am-8pm 7 days per week on a rotation

The role of the Mental Health Well-Being Practitioner as a member of the team is to provide supportive care to children, young people and their families who have attended the acute trust sites in Mental Health crisis.

The successful clinicians will support the provision of assessment, planning, implementation utilising a family centred approach, with a full understanding of diversity and equality issues.

The post holder will be expected to work with CYPs initially presenting in the emergency department and within the acute trusts wards as a member of the multidisciplinary team, delivering a high standard of evidence-based care and treatment in order to maximise each young person’s individual potential.

Whilst the post holders base will be within the CAMHS Crisis Team, it is expected that the successful clinician will spend the majority of their clinical time supporting children and young people within the acute trust settings of Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital.

The post holder is responsible for supporting the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of mental health care to young people and families admitted to the ward in conjunction with the acute trust A&E and ward teams.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
- To contribute to assessment and support the development and implementation of recovery-based care plans.
- Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support CYP in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.
- Contribute to a range of routine care tasks such as emotional support, engagement and de-escalation with children and young people, active communication across CAMHS Crisis and the acute trust site departments
- Engage with and gather information from CYPs, relatives and CYP records to support a multi-disciplinary formulation and care plan whilst the CYP remains in the acute trust setting
- To ensure all CYPs are aware of activities which may be of benefit to them and how these can be accessed
- To assist in the provision of psycho-educational for parents and CYP whilst they remain in the acute site setting
- Working with the multi-disciplinary team contribute to the assessment and management of risk
- To be responsive to CYP’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect
- Assist the CAMHS crisis clinicians and acute trust nursing colleagues, where appropriate, for planning, implementing and reviewing recovery orientated care plans
- Involve CYPs, carers and significant others in all aspects of CYP care where appropriate.