Mental Health Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Beckenham, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The post holder will be a highly skilled and motivated Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Mental Health Nurse and be part of the newly developed wellbeing mental health hub in Bromley. You will provide assessments and a range of brief interventions, to help address a range of biopsychosocial needs of people accessing the hub. You will make best use of third sector and other community opportunities to promote service users' well-being and maintenance of mental health.

As a registered professional you will be expected to work effectively as amember of the multi disciplinary team (MDT) while also operating with some autonomy. You will have access to a range of professional support and clinical supervision structures already embedded within Oxleas NHSFoundation Trust. You will also be expected to participate in the development, delivery and evaluation of both the primary care mental health and MDT interventions.

Main duties of the job

To support and deliver a range of biopsychosocial therapeutic interventions to service users in primary care, who do not meet the criteria for secondary mental health services. To provide specialist clinical advice to other team members on the suitability of assessments and interventions, where appropriate. To provide specialist assessments of service users with mental health problems with the primary care setting, ensuring proactive management of service users' needs. To provide effective signposting to appropriate third sector and community-based services for ongoing support. To provide high quality clinical expertise and clinical reasoning in relation to referrals that may require onward referrals for secondary mental health care. Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and risk managementplans. To contribute to the continued development, review and transformation of the primary care mental health hub.

About us

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:

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Job responsibilities

Management responsibilities

To exercise good personal time management, punctuality andconsistent reliable attendance.

Leadership

To provide leadership and clinical supervision for junior staff identified within the primary care mental health hub. To support the on-going improvement and transformation of theprimary care mental health service. To provide a conducive learning environment for students, as practice educator. To identify the training needs of junior staff, and to plan, develop anddeliver training, as required. To evaluate the quality of own work and make improvements wherenecessary ensuring all issues and related risks are raised with Manager. To maintain own professional registration and development. To participate actively in and seek clinical and professional supervision and appraisal in line with organisational policy.

Clinical

To provide specialist clinical interventions to service users within theprimary care mental health service. To work autonomously within the parameters of the role, undertaking day to day clinical prioritisation and work planning. To be an integrated team member of the primary care service, working with the MDT to address occupational and recovery goals for service users, and facilitate effective assessment, stabilisation and transition back to the GP or onward to another service. To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation. To meet expectations and quality standards in relation to triage, screening, care planning and risk management. To develop and implement specialist care plans, offering specialist advice to service users, carers and MDT colleagues. To assess risk and develop risk management plans in collaboration with service users, which are reviewed and adjusted in line with the service users needs. To ensure an understanding of the Care Act and Safeguarding processes and that key processes are effectively followed in the team. To offer clinical supervision to junior staff. To act within the appropriate professional code of conduct at all times. To manage effective discharge ensuring service user and all relevant agencies are given relevant information. To attend all relevant clinical meetings as a member of the MDT Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Qualified RMN/SW/OT

Desirable

Years of experience Three years and above

Experience of working within an assessment service

Essential

Three years and above experience

Desirable

Two years and above experience

Experience of delivering brief interventions

Essential

Two years and above experience

Desirable

Experience in mental health services

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