Job summary
Bexley Home Treatment Team is a multidisciplinary team, providing a service seven days a week, 365 days per year to individuals in mental health crisis with the principal aim of providing an effective alternative to inpatient care. This involves intensive clinical work over short periods of time to prevent the need for admission or facilitate safe early discharge. The team also carries out 72 Hour follow-up for individuals discharged from mental health inpatient units.

Main duties of the job
As a senior clinician, the post holder will play a key role in the gatekeeping of acute inpatient admissions, undertaking complex assessments to determine whether individuals can be safely and effectively treated in their own homes. This requires a high degree of clinical autonomy, advanced risk formulation skills, and the ability to make robust, evidence-based decisions under pressure. The Home Treatment team works in close collaboration with the other elements of the crisis services, including the Assessment and Admission Avoidance (AAA) Team and Mental Health Liaison Teams (MHLTs) in-patient wards, community mental health teams and local authorities. The post holder will be expected to promote and develop clinical leadership and clinical practice and be a positive role model to junior members of the team through the practice of evidence based care. The post holder will be expected to support professional development through clinical appraisal and supervision and contribute to the ongoing educational programme for staff, fostering a positive learning environment. The post holder will be encouraged to foster collaborative cross organisational working.

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:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities
As a senior clinician, the post holder will play a key role in the gatekeeping of acute inpatient admissions, undertaking complex assessments to determine whether individuals can be safely and effectively treated in their own homes. This requires a high degree of clinical autonomy, advanced risk formulation skills, and the ability to make robust, evidence-based decisions under pressure. The Home Treatment team works in close collaboration with the other elements of the crisis services, including the Assessment and Admission Avoidance (AAA) Team and Mental Health Liaison Teams (MHLTs) in-patient wards, community mental health teams and local authorities.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Relevant qualification and Professional registration
• Evidence of Practice assessor completion

Desirable

• Evidence of post registration training

Experience
Essential

• Post graduation experience of Crisis services
• Experience of dealing with people with challenging behaviour and complex needs

Desirable

• Experience of supervision for junior staff

Skills
Essential

• Experience of robust risk assessment skills
• Experience in undertaking comprehensive mental state examination
• Working knowledge of Mental Capacity act
• Understanding of Safeguarding Protocols
• Have UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Hawthorns Unit - Queen Marys Hospital, Frognal Avenue, Sidcup, DA14 6LT, United Kingdom
Employer's website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Bexley Home Treatment Team Manager, Liese Dallarda, Liese.dallarda@nhs.net, 07775761242

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.