Mental Health Practitioner

Bexley Home Treatment Team is a multidisciplinary team, providing a service sevendays a week, 365 days per year to individuals in mental health crisis with theprincipal aim of providing an effective alternative to inpatient care. This involvesintensive clinical work over short periods of time to prevent the need for admission orfacilitate safe early discharge. The team also carries out 72 Hour follow-up forindividuals discharged from mental health inpatient units., As a senior clinician, the post holder will play a key role in the gatekeeping of acuteinpatient admissions, undertaking complex assessments to determine whetherindividuals can be safely and effectively treated in their own homes. This requires ahigh degree of clinical autonomy, advanced risk formulation skills, and the ability tomake robust, evidence-based decisions under pressure.The Home treatment team works in close collaboration with the other elements of thecrisis services, including the Assessment and Admission Avoidance (AAA) Team andMental Health Liaison Teams (MHLTs) in-patient wards, community mental healthteams and local authorities. The post holder will be expected to promote and develop clinical leadership andclinical practice and be a positive role model to junior members of the team throughthe practice of evidence based care. The post holder will be expected to supportprofessional development through clinical appraisal and supervision and contribute tothe ongoing educational programme for staff, fostering a positive learningenvironment. The post holder will be encouraged to foster collaborative crossorganisational working.

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