Senior Clinical Practitioner

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Thank you for taking an interest in our Senior Clinical Practitioner post for our new Oxleas Rough Sleepers Mental Health Team.

The team aims to improve the mental health of people sleeping rough in the London Boroughs of Bromley, Bexley, and Greenwich. The project will develop close operational working links with other advocacy and support services in the non-profit sector and will enhance, fill gaps, build bridges between services and help existing services work together more effectively so that homeless people are rapidly identified, assessed, supported, and directed so that their recovery is sustained.

The service is designed to complement, strengthen, and enhance existing provision, becoming part of a homeless wellbeing pathway. The service will work within Oxleas and allow access to a range of training and development resources, seminars, clinical support, supervision, and access to the Quality Improvement Programme.

We want you to be part of our team, and our future vision. We believe that within our teams there are opportunities for personal development and careers, we will support and encourage ambition, training and continuing development.

Oxleas is a great place to work, we care about our staff, and we reinvest in our teams. Are you a passionate and committed individual? Are you looking for a varied and exciting career within Community Mental health. If so come and join Oxleas to pursue your ambition.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide the operational management and senior clinical oversight for the project. They will also be actively involved in multi-agency strategic planning and development of mental health services for rough sleepers.

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:

o We're Kind o We're Fair o We Listen o We Care

Date posted

24 January 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,836 to £52,849 a year p.a. inc.

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

2 years

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

277-4933824-CMH

Job locations

Memorial Hospital

Shooters Hill

London

SE18 3RG


Job description

Job responsibilities

MainResponsibilities

  • To act as the senior clinical practitioner providing practice leadership for all practitioners within the team. In this capacity to oversee referrals and manage the team response to requests for urgent assessments.
  • To promote and develop multi-disciplinary working within the team ensuring that respect is fostered between the disciplines.
  • To manage a caseload of rough sleepers with complex needs within the service acceptance criteria. To conduct assessment, liaison, and brief treatment, ensuring that lines of communication are effective and regular reviews are in place.
  • To remain as primary lead for communication with other agencies, even after admission of a service user under their care to an inpatient unit. Furthermore, the post holder will monitor this practice for staff under their supervision.
  • To keep accurate up-to-date records of all contacts with service users and communications with other professionals involved in their care ensuring that electronic records are updated regularly and distributed as appropriate.
  • To maintain and develop collaborative working relationships with service providers from a wide range of agencies.
  • To develop and maintain a high standard of practice based on a comprehensive assessment using a range of psychosocial and clinical approaches.
  • To establish joint and / or co-working practice for clients with other team members and /or external service providers as appropriate.
  • To fully participate in the assessment and care of rough sleepers with mental health needs, implementing appropriate interventions with them and their carers, based on up-to-date theory, the practice model of the service and relevant other guidance

Job description

Job responsibilities

MainResponsibilities

  • To act as the senior clinical practitioner providing practice leadership for all practitioners within the team. In this capacity to oversee referrals and manage the team response to requests for urgent assessments.
  • To promote and develop multi-disciplinary working within the team ensuring that respect is fostered between the disciplines.
  • To manage a caseload of rough sleepers with complex needs within the service acceptance criteria. To conduct assessment, liaison, and brief treatment, ensuring that lines of communication are effective and regular reviews are in place.
  • To remain as primary lead for communication with other agencies, even after admission of a service user under their care to an inpatient unit. Furthermore, the post holder will monitor this practice for staff under their supervision.
  • To keep accurate up-to-date records of all contacts with service users and communications with other professionals involved in their care ensuring that electronic records are updated regularly and distributed as appropriate.
  • To maintain and develop collaborative working relationships with service providers from a wide range of agencies.
  • To develop and maintain a high standard of practice based on a comprehensive assessment using a range of psychosocial and clinical approaches.
  • To establish joint and / or co-working practice for clients with other team members and /or external service providers as appropriate.
  • To fully participate in the assessment and care of rough sleepers with mental health needs, implementing appropriate interventions with them and their carers, based on up-to-date theory, the practice model of the service and relevant other guidance

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant clinical qualification (RMN, Dip SW, CQSW, OT, Clinical Psychology)
  • Evidence of post qualification clinical training, regular updating and ongoing development of role and skills

Desirable

  • Recognized post graduate qualifications in care of the adult with mental health problems

Experience

Essential

  • At least 4 years' experience in a field of Mental Health, 2 years of which must be Band 6 or equivalent

Desirable

  • Experience of working with service users with drug and alcohol problems

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to undertake bio-psychosocial assessments in a professional and sensitive manner, using advanced clinical reasoning
  • Ability to negotiate and lead across professional boundaries

Desirable

  • Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant clinical qualification (RMN, Dip SW, CQSW, OT, Clinical Psychology)
  • Evidence of post qualification clinical training, regular updating and ongoing development of role and skills

Desirable

  • Recognized post graduate qualifications in care of the adult with mental health problems

Experience

Essential

  • At least 4 years' experience in a field of Mental Health, 2 years of which must be Band 6 or equivalent

Desirable

  • Experience of working with service users with drug and alcohol problems

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to undertake bio-psychosocial assessments in a professional and sensitive manner, using advanced clinical reasoning
  • Ability to negotiate and lead across professional boundaries

Desirable

  • Experience of working within a multicultural framework

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Memorial Hospital

Shooters Hill

London

SE18 3RG


Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Memorial Hospital

Shooters Hill

London

SE18 3RG


Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Associate Director

Helen Jones

helen.jones139@nhs.net

07962015598

Date posted

24 January 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,836 to £52,849 a year p.a. inc.

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

2 years

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

277-4933824-CMH

Job locations

Memorial Hospital

Shooters Hill

London

SE18 3RG


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