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As a health advisor, you will work with children and families to support them achieve maximum independence in their health and wellbeing. Applicants require the appropriate qualification listed within the person specification, and must show excellent communication, presentation, and good IT skills. In addition, applicants must have a current driving license with access to a car for work. If you are innovative, creative, and keen to develop your knowledge and new ways of working, then consider this opportunity with Young Greenwich.

Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – School Nursing

If you are a qualified nurse, you are invited to apply for the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing – School Nurse training in the academic year 2025/26. This will be offered as a full time opportunity only. A full-time course comprises of 52 weeks of study, of which 45 weeks are spent in education and clinical practice within the Trust. You will study at the University of Greenwich, commencing in January 2025.

The salary, while training, will be to a maximum of point 3 on the Agenda for Change Band 5 scale as directed by Health Education England.

School nurses lead in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme:From 5-19 years old(DH 2009) delegating to and supervising the work of the skill mix team, while also working in partnership with local service providers to develop and support services to children and families within schools and the local community.

Every day working as a School Nurse is different, with responsibilities including health assessments for CSE, Mental Health and safeguarding, and working with a range of local children’s agencies and professionals.

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

The full-time course comprises of 52 weeks of study, of which 45 weeks are spent in education and clinical practice within the Trust and Young Greenwich School Nursing.

You will be based at one of the youth hubs with a nominated Practice Supervisor with a Practice Assessor overseeing the placement and study.

Young Greenwich is an integrated programme commissioned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The key purpose of the programme is to enable young people to develop holistically,working with them to facilitate their personal, social, and educational aspirations with an aim to develop their voice and reach their full potential. The programme is led by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (Oxleas) and delivered with partners Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) who together with METRO form theYoung Greenwich Partnership.

Young Greenwich deliver seamlessly in and out of schools, youth hubs and other community venues with strong pathways for school age pupils into community-based activities and support.


This advert closes on Wednesday 9 Oct 2024

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ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH

JOB TITLE: Senior Health and Safety Advisor (Permanent post)

GRADE: PO4 (£46,041 - £49,083)

About the Job Role

The Health and Safety Service has responsibility for the provision of competent advice and support service to all Directorates across the Royal Borough of Greenwich, including schools that subscribe to our health and safety services, in meeting their statutory and legislative duties and responsibilities concerning all aspects of health and safety relating to employees and others that may be affected by the activities of the Council.

You will be the lead point of contact for health and safety support to the council's directorates and schools, as well as leading the development and improvement of safety management systems, and arrangements for specific topics.

You will be required to manage a team of up to six persons and provide competent health and safety guidance, advice, and support, to all directorates across the council. Undertaking assurance activities to ensure teams across the council are working in line with legislative requirements, policies, and procedures.

Have the ability and innovation to be able to utilise your ideas, skills, and experience on how to do things efficiently and effectively, as part of our service commitment to continuous improvement, you'll have the chance to work alongside the Health and Safety manager and the current team who are passionate about what they do and promote a safer environment for all our employees and others.

You will be involved in the development of Health and safety management system policies, procedures Toolbox talks etc oversee or undertake inspections and audits, investigate accidents, and make appropriate recommendations

About you

As part of the Council's commitment to providing high-quality and efficient services to the council's directorates and schools, you will need to be an experienced competent health and safety professional with excellent knowledge and practical experience of H&S legislation and issues within a Corporate and school environment. You will have the opportunity to make the role your own and will be exposed to a diverse and wide range of risks across the council's six directorates and schools, that subscribe to our Health and safety services. The role is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to use their wealth of Health and Safety knowledge to really make a positive impact and develop themselves across a diverse risk profile.

To Apply

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification.

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

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JOB PURPOSE An opportunity has arisen for a senior Occupational Therapist to join our Occupational Therapy Department at the Queen Elizabeth, Woolwich. You may be an experienced band 5 or an established band 6 seeking a new challenge. Senior Occupational Therapists are more experienced clinicians who independently manage a full specialised clinical caseload. They are responsible for supervising designated members of staff within the team, including students and apprentices on placement. Our senior Occupational Therapists rotate through speciality pathways on a 9-monthly basis and work under supervision of an allocated Team Lead for the Clinical Area. Inpatient Rotations at Queen Elizabeth Hospital include: Emergency Department Acute Medical Unit Care of the Elderly Trauma Orthopaedics & Surgery Critical Care & Neuro Outliers Inpatient Rotation at University Hospital Lewisham: Stroke Rehab Community Rotations (car driver required) Include: Oxleas Older Persons Psychiatry Bromley Stroke Rehab Bexley Rapid Response Greenwich Joint Emergency Care Clinical Governance and clinical support will be provided to rotational staff by the Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Lead in each specialty. In conjunction with the Team Lead, the post holder will participate in a rolling programme of education, clinical evaluation, audit and research across the speciality. The rotations associated with this post may change in response to future service demands and the postholder may be required to work at any of the sites within the Trust. 7-day working for Therapies is under development within the Trust and it is anticipated that the postholder will be required to work at weekends on a roster basis during some of the above rotations. KEY RELATIONSHIPS Band 5 Occupational Therapists, Team Lead Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Inpatient Site Lead, Heads of Therapies, Therapy Support Workers, Medical Consultants, Physiotherapists / Speech and Language Therapists / Dietitians, All Occupational Therapy Staff Trustwide, Nursing Staff, Referring Hospitals, Social Services, Community Services, GPs, Voluntary Services, Academic Institutions, Specialists external to L&G. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Clinical To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with complex presentations To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and the work of staff under the postholders supervision. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist. To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills To undertake physical treatment techniques utilising highly developed manual skills To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of Occupational Therapy interventions and ensure that treatment programmes are progressing appropriately. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of Occupational Therapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. To be consulted by staff under the postholders supervision To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation and use appropriate services e.g. interpreters, SALT To ensure that individual practice and that of the local pathway team is user focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme

Please see the attached Job Description for further information relating to the jobs main responsibilities.

The post holder will contribute to delivering and co-developing the primary care mental health service model. This includes care pathways for the provision of integrated mental health care in a designated PCN within the Borough of Greenwich. The post holder will be responsible for providing specialist mental health care and interventions to patients within the PCN. This includes using a high level of assessment to understand needs, treatment options, and refer appropriately onto teams across the health, voluntary sector and social care system to enhance the patient experience while going through the care pathway. It is crucial that the post holders develop effective and close working relationships both within the PCN and with other providers of local mental health services. Post holders will work across GP Practices and Oxleas sites in Greenwich.

Job Summary: The Healthcare Assistant (HCA) / Healthcare Support Worker is an important part of the multidisciplinary team delivering direct care to patients under the support and supervision of a Registered Nurse. . The Healthcare Assistants / Healthcare Support Workers carry out a range of personal care activities and tasks in support of and supervised by a Registered Nurse/Midwife. To achieve this, they will: Competently perform the necessary aspects of care for patients Ensure effective delivery of personal care in line with patient activities of daily living is provided to patients and that an acceptable standard is maintained. Follow all Trust policies and provide a safe and person-centred environment for the treatment of patients. Participate in personal and practice development activities to maintain standards of care Key Result Areas & Performance: Demonstrates care and compassion to patients, carers and relatives to help ensure high-quality person-centred patient care is delivered at all times. Assist patients with activities of daily living. This will include all basic care including the feeding, bathing and repositioning of all patients under the supervision of a trained nurse. Provide support to the registered nurse and, where appropriate, other members of the Clinical Team as required. To co-operate with and maintain good relationships with team colleagues and staff in other disciplines that are attending and treating patients to maximise patient care. Maintain good relationships and an empathic approach to the patients family, relatives and carers and refer them to a trained nurse for any questions they may have on the clients condition or for any suggestions or complaints that they wish to raise. Report observed changes in the patients physical and psychological needs. Accurately document care delivered to patients. Policies, procedures and standards To maintain patient confidentiality at all times and follow information governance policies and procedures. To participate in maintaining accurate and up-to-date records, e.g. fluid intake/output charts to ensure effective communication. To follow Trust policies and procedures to ensure maintenance of safe working practices for patients and colleagues. To follow ward and unit procedures for the use of supplies and equipment in order to promote the effective and efficient use of resources. Equipment and resources Share responsibility for key aspects of housekeeping and stock control. Demonstrating a good awareness of cost efficiency and thus contributing to the smooth running of the ward/Department. Personal development and learning To participate in personal career development plan to maintain skills and develop personal growth through training and education.

The Senior HCA /Senior Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) is part of the multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients. Support and supervision is provided by a Registered Professional. The Senior HCA / Senior Healthcare Support Worker carries out a range of patient care tasks and duties to enable the team to provide an effective and efficient service within Acute hospital settings. To achieve this, the Senior HCA/ Senior Healthcare Support Worker will: Competently perform the necessary aspects of care for patients Ensure effective delivery of clinical care is provided to patients and that an acceptable standard is maintained. Follow Trust policies and provide a safe and person-centred environment for the treatment of patients. Participate in personal and practice development activities to maintain standards of care.

JOB PURPOSE An opportunity has arisen for a senior Occupational Therapist to join our Occupational Therapy Department at the Queen Elizabeth, Woolwich. You may be an experienced band 5 or an established band 6 seeking a new challenge. Senior Occupational Therapists are more experienced clinicians who independently manage a full specialised clinical caseload. They are responsible for supervising designated members of staff within the team, including students and apprentices on placement. Our senior Occupational Therapists rotate through speciality pathways on a 9-monthly basis and work under supervision of an allocated Team Lead for the Clinical Area. Inpatient Rotations at Queen Elizabeth Hospital include: Emergency Department Acute Medical Unit Care of the Elderly Trauma Orthopaedics & Surgery Critical Care & Neuro Outliers Inpatient Rotation at University Hospital Lewisham: Stroke Rehab Community Rotations (car driver required) Include: Oxleas Older Persons Psychiatry Bromley Stroke Rehab Bexley Rapid Response Greenwich Joint Emergency Care Clinical Governance and clinical support will be provided to rotational staff by the Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Lead in each specialty. In conjunction with the Team Lead, the post holder will participate in a rolling programme of education, clinical evaluation, audit and research across the speciality. The rotations associated with this post may change in response to future service demands and the postholder may be required to work at any of the sites within the Trust. 7-day working for Therapies is under development within the Trust and it is anticipated that the postholder will be required to work at weekends on a roster basis during some of the above rotations. KEY RELATIONSHIPS Band 5 Occupational Therapists, Team Lead Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Inpatient Site Lead, Heads of Therapies, Therapy Support Workers, Medical Consultants, Physiotherapists / Speech and Language Therapists / Dietitians, All Occupational Therapy Staff Trustwide, Nursing Staff, Referring Hospitals, Social Services, Community Services, GPs, Voluntary Services, Academic Institutions, Specialists external to L&G. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Clinical To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with complex presentations To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and the work of staff under the postholders supervision. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist. To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills To undertake physical treatment techniques utilising highly developed manual skills To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of Occupational Therapy interventions and ensure that treatment programmes are progressing appropriately. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of Occupational Therapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. To be consulted by staff under the postholders supervision To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation and use appropriate services e.g. interpreters, SALT To ensure that individual practice and that of the local pathway team is user focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme

This is a exciting opportunity to develop your skills as a Community Mental Health Nurse working in a community mental health setting. You will promote and deliver evidence-based care for service users with mental health conditions in their own homes and within a variety of accommodation settings.

We are looking for a motivated, skilled, and experienced Nurse to join our Community Mental Health Team to offer clients under our Intensive case management for psychosis team, a high standard of care to support and enable recovery within the community.

You will be joining a Multi disciplinary team working closely with colleagues from OT, Psychology and Medicine specialties to improve the outcomes for our patients through planning effective interventions and care.

As a Community Mental Health Nurse, you will be responsible for a caseload of clients with enduring mental health needs, You will be required to plan their care which involves assessing and managing risks, delivering crisis interventions, offering support with Mental health difficulties as well as monitoring physical health and supporting with social needs. Working independently to manage your caseload, with access to the wider MDT team for support with interventions.

Additional duties include supporting the Depot Clinic, Clozapine clinic and Duty system. Training and induction will be provided.

Engaging with community resources and external agencies to aid the patients recovery.

Having knowledge of the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Programme Approach, Deprivation of Liberty, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Community Treatment Orders.

Administering and monitoring the side effects of medication according to NMC professional standards.

See Job description for further details.

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
• We Listen
• We Care
• Management of allocated caseload.
• Completing referral forms as necessary.
• Networking/liaising across the teams such as Transition of clients from CAMHS into Working Age Adult team or from WAA to Older adult.
• Reporting any incident or Serious Untoward Incidents that may take place in a community setting and provide reports and accurate records relating to the incident.
• Working safely to ensure safe custody of medicines, sharps, and clinical equipment in a community setting; and reporting of all incidents following Trust Policy.
• Understanding and working within the boundaries of the Lone Working Policy and awareness of Personal Safety in a community setting, including clear and updated communication with colleagues.
• Responding to urgent situations, emergencies or crises using protocols specific to the local community setting.


This advert closes on Monday 22 Jul 2024

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Client : The Royal Borough of Greenwich
Client Location : The Woolwich Centre
Justification : Cover Vacant Post - Agency Role
Hours: Five days week, 35 hours – 3-4 days in the office.
Hours Per Week : 35.00
Start Date : 15/07/2024
End Date : 29/09/2024
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00

Responsible for the day-to-day and operational management of GLLaB’s frontline service team. Provide managerial oversight of GLLaB’s comprehensive range of back-to-work employment programmes to ensure these remove barriers to work and equip residents with the skills needed to actively participate in the labour market. To ensure high quality employment-related services are provided to residents seeking employment; through effective delivery of multiple externally and corporately funded programmes.

Purpose of Job: To be responsible to the Head of Public Health Programmes for: 1. The development and delivery of key strategic public health and wellbeing programmes, projects and approaches to improving physical activity levels in Greenwich, including key strategies and plans which address health inequalities, reduce sedentary behaviour, and promote health at all sizes. 2. Co-ordinating cross-agency programmes of work to tackle the determinants of physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour, and obesity within a complex systems framework, tackling health inequalities and increasing health equity. 3. Working with the Head of Public Health Programmes/Public Health Consultant to support the implementation of the priorities for physical activity and wellbeing set out in Our Greenwich Plan, the Greenwich Health and Wellbeing Strategy, and the Healthier Greenwich Partnership, designing and developing action plans and milestones, with clear outcomes that are effectively performance managed. 4. Developing plans and strategies to tackle weight stigma, and reducing the barriers to everybody being active, regardless of size and health status, promoting a co-production and co-design approach with citizens, service users, and service providers. 5. Influencing, supporting and working with colleagues within and across the Council and with partner organisations, at all levels of these organisations, including elected Members. 6. Lead the Divisions work to increase the skills and competencies of health and care professionals to recommend and refer patients to interventions to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour. 7. Managing staff and programme budgets and levering in external funding. Manages 3 directly managed staff. Manages 1-3 indirectly managed consultancy/contracting staff. Main Duties: 1. To provide effective strategic leadership and management of programmes and approaches to increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviour and promoting health at all sizes, including designing and leading system and partnership structures within and across services and organisations, within a framework of tackling health inequalities and improving health equity. 2. To provide effective strategic leadership to the development of partnership strategies and plans to increase physical activity levels, reduce sedentary behaviour, and promote health at all sizes for all our residents, within a complex system, utilising system thinking and approaches, and which align to and with priorities in Our Greenwich Plan, the Greenwich Health and Wellbeing Strategy, and the Healthier Greenwich Partnership. 3. Ensure that robust and effective system, programme and project monitoring and evaluation approaches are in place, utilising knowledge and understanding of complex system and public evaluation tools and evidence-base, and contributing to the further development of complex system evaluation approaches, which can identify impacts across demographic and cultural groups. 4. Effectively communicate information and insight to a variety of audiences using a variety of media, drawing on knowledge and understanding of evidence, and social marketing approaches, working alongside communication and engagement specialists within the Division, Council, NHS and VCS, extracting, interpreting, analysing and presenting data from various sources, and being able to precis and present complex policy and guidance. 5. Develop and deliver training, communications and materials that increase the skills, knowledge and expertise of health and care professionals to recommend and refer physical activity to patients, service users, and their own workforce. 6. Contribute to the development and design of clinical and service pathways that improve health outcomes through increasing physical activity levels, in particular for those experiencing health inequalities, ensuring the involvement and participation of residents, people with lived experience, and VCS organisations in this pathway design, utilising existing partnership arrangements, and developing new partnership arrangements where needed for service and pathway co-design, and that these pathways are reflected in the integrated commissioning of services. 7. Co-ordinate the design and delivery Health Needs Assessments and Health Impact Assessments in relation to physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and obesity, including commissioning additional capacity where required, and ensuring input and engagement with system partners, and people with lived experience. 8. Contribute to the strategic, integrated commissioning of services that improve population health outcomes through increased physical activity as both prevention and treatment of ill health, reducing health inequalities, driving innovation and whole system approaches, and robust evaluation of short, medium and longer term outcomes. 9. Take oversight of tendering exercises for projects and programmes, within the RB Greenwich corporate procurement framework. 10. Through the promotion of physical activity, and development of physical activity interventions, highlight and exploit the co-benefits of physical activity to mental health and wellbeing, air quality, climate change, and community connection, working collaboratively within the Division and with other Council Divisions and stakeholders to create the conditions for everybody active. 11. Utilising co-production and co-design principles, contribute to the development of frameworks and strategic approaches to tackling weight stigma, and reducing the barriers for all our residents to being more active, promoting health at all sizes. 12. Influence key senior stakeholders across the Greenwich system, including leaders from Royal Greenwich Council, local health and social care providers, the VCS and local business, to understand and use their levers for increasing physical activity levels, and reducing sedentary behaviour, including their workforces. 13. Act as an advocate for health at all sizes, physical activity, and the co-benefits of increased physical activity and reduced sedentary behaviour, championing innovation, keeping abreast of changes and developments in policy, evidence and approaches at local, regional and national level, and applying knowledge and understanding of these changes to the design and implementation of projects, programmes and commissioning. 14. Identify new and potential sources of funding and develop business cases for future developments to strengthen work directed towards increasing physical activity outcomes and reduced health inequalities, contributing to partnership funding bids. 15. To represent the Council at regional and sub-regional networks, groups and events as required, including OHID, London Councils and South East London Vital 5 forums. 16. Direct and manage staff and financial resources effectively, to deliver the best outcomes for increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviour, within Council financial and human resources policies and frameworks. 17. Work with colleagues across the Division, Health and Adult Services and the wider Council in a spirit of collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise, and continuously learning how other teams and services can contribute to better health and wellbeing outcomes for our diverse communities. 18. Ensuring that Councillors, senior officers and partners are briefed and supported effectively when deployed to support events and in their dealings with the media in relation to health 19. Playing a leadership role as a senior manager within the Division. 20. Where necessary for the job role or appropriate for continued development in the role, the post holder may be required to participate in training and development courses made available via the Councils Apprentice Levy funding and other mechanisms, including the UKPHR Practitioner and Registrar programmes, . and will be required to undertake MEOC training, and any other mandatory training required by the Division and the Council. 21. Undertake employees investigations and appeals in line with RBGs policies and procedures 22. To undertake all duties with due regard to the provisions of health and safety regulations and legislation, Data Protection/GDPR, the Councils Equal Opportunities and Customer Care policies. 23. To perform all duties in line with Councils staff values showing commitment to improving residents lives and opportunities, demonstrating respect and fairness, taking ownership, working towards doing things better and working together across the council. 24. You may be required to undertake alternative, additional or ancillary duties from time to time or transfer to another service department within the Council as the Council may reasonably direct to meet service user demand in the event of a crisis or emergency. 25. This post does not require a DBS 26. Deputise for the Head of Public Health Programmes as required Designation of the Post to which the Post-Holder normally reports to: Head of Public Health Programmes

For full job description and person specification please view the attachments. The job description will provide the post holder with the full tasks and responsibilities of the roles. The person specifications will provide the post holder with the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required for the roles. Applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly will be welcomed.

We are delighted to be advertising this exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic occupational therapist to join Greenwich East Community Mental Health Team. The post is within the Intensive Care Psychosis Pathway Team. The role will involve working as an occupational therapist, within our multi-disciplinary team, alongside doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, employment workers and our admin team. The successful applicant will be working alongside our senior Occupational Therapist to support and further develop core interventions for our service users.

Applications are welcomed from newly qualified occupational therapists with an interest in mental health and community working. Although mental health experience may be beneficial, it is not essential. CPD for Band 5 occupational therapy staff includes Statutory Induction, Preceptorship programme, Band 5 support group and Occupational Therapy specific training days. There is an active CPD programme which includes regular professional supervision and appraisals and dedicated CPD time.

The East Locality Mental Health Team operates from its main base in Woolwich which serves an identified catchment area within Woolwich, Plumstead, Abbey wood and Thamesmead. Our centre is staffed from 9am until 5pm Monday to Friday.

You will work with specific OT cases providing a high standard of service user focused assessments and interventions around occupational roles.

In applying occupational therapy models you will work from an evidence base and draw upon current developments in Recovery and Social Inclusion. You will need to be committed to a service user focus and be creative in finding ways to help people develop and achieve personal goals. You will also contribute to a forward thinking group programme and lead on implementing particular groups.

You will work alongside OT and multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as working with a range of other agencies. The Oxleas Occupational Therapy Service is committed to the continuing professional development (CPD) of its staff. A well-developed supervision structure, CPD activities, and a variety of training opportunities underpin this.

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 undertake occupational therapy assessments for referrals to the service, addressing occupational performance strengths and needs in relation to service user goals.
• To work with a designated caseload of service users to identify goals of OT care plans ensuring compatibility with the overall care plan.
• To carry out clinical practice in groups or with individuals using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals, enabling the service user in areas of self -maintenance, productivity and leisure.
• To carry out clinical practice in relation to best available evidence.
• To promote a recovery approach with service users and frame clinical work within this context.
• To monitor and evaluate treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the intervention.
• To implement risk management plans in accordance with Trust guidelines and completed risk assessments.


This advert closes on Sunday 21 Jul 2024

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Social Workers (Level 2)/Approved Mental Health Professionals

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality, Adult Mental Health services?

Want to work in an innovative learning organisation? Looking to develop your experience in community mental health?

With excellent training and great benefits, Royal Greenwich is the ideal place to progress your career.

At Royal Greenwich, we value our Social Workers and support them to ensure they have the resources and environment they need to make a real difference. We are keen to appoint enthusiastic Social Workers who share our vision in the development of a centre of excellence. Opportunities are available in:

• East Intensive Case Management for Psychosis (ICMP) Community Mental Health Team - 35 hours per week
• West Intensive Case Management for Psychosis (ICMP) Community Mental Health Team - 35 hours per week
• Older Adults Community Mental Health (OAMH) Team - 35 hours per week

Our Teams

ICMP East and West Teams

ICMP provides a flexible service to all Greenwich residents between the ages of 18 and 65 years, within the psychosis clusters who currently require secondary community mental health treatment and support.

The service focus is on social inclusion, recovery, working towards self-management, and offering individuals choice and involvement regarding their treatment, whilst actively encouraging their participation in the planning and implementation of their care. This results in a strength based personalised wellbeing plan which supports the individual's referral back to primary care.

Older Adults Community Mental Health Team

The Greenwich Older Adults Mental Health team is a specialist integrated multidisciplinary team for adults over the age of 65 experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties or have a dementia diagnosis. The team provides health and social care assessments, support and advice for carers and a variety of interventions to maximise independent living, and to promote mental wellbeing

The team provide support through care coordination and a programme of short-term psychological groups directed to older people assessed for the service. All professionals work collaboratively with the inpatient unit, crisis and assessment team, to assess the support that the individual needs in the community, to contribute to the multi-agency panel to consider those who may need a package of care and to discuss safe discharge from hospital.

What we look for:

All social workers will be expected to be able to manage a caseload and to work co-productively with service users their families and carers to ensure that a strength based, person centred approach remains at the core of all interventions.

To be part of a multidisciplinary team that consists of social workers, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, support workers, lived experienced practitioners, community psychiatric nurses and administrative support.

To work autonomously with individuals, carers, and families to deliver a range of assessment and care interventions that promote mental health wellbeing and personalised outcomes for people, whilst promoting independence. You will be expected to undertake statutory functions of the social work role (Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 1983 (2007), Children Act 1989 (2004) and other related legislation), responding to requests for those who present with care and support needs:

• social care assessments
• carers assessments
• court of protection
• safeguarding concerns and enquiries
• mental capacity assessments
• mental health assessments
• Mental Health Act assessments

Senior social workers are expected to undertake the role of an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) and must act as an AMHP on behalf of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

Your job satisfaction is important to us - to support you in your role you will receive:

• 1 to 1 reflective professional supervision and AMHP post assessment supervision
• Access to a manager who is AMHP qualified
• An AMHP mentor to provide additional support in your first year of employment
• 18 hours (3 days) of AMHP approval training in each year
• A structured induction to Greenwich AMHP service
• Up to 2 days in each 5 year period to complete your AMHP re-approval portfolio
• Opportunity to be involved in the practice education of social workers and AMHPs undertaking professional training
• Access to Social Work, AMHP and Reflective Practice Forums for peer group discussion reflection and supervision
• A welcome meeting with the Head of Social Care and Mental Health Lead Social Worker to begin to discuss and plan for your continued professional development pathway
• Access to protected time to undertake the requirements for your Social Work England registration
• Access to the Royal Borough of Greenwich learning portal, training programmes, reflective workshops, and events
• Strong partnership working between Royal Borough of Greenwich Health and Adults Services, Integrated Commissioning Board and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (named Trust of the Year 2023). This collaboration enables efficient multiagency working towards achieving a joint mission.

For these roles you must hold:

• A registered professional social work qualification
• An AMHP qualification
• Registration with Social Work England
• This role will require an Enhanced DBS check

In return we offer a range of benefits including:

• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave allowance of 29 days plus Bank Holidays
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements with good IT equipment
• Vibrant Staff Networks
• Reduced rate gym membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• GreenwichCard entitling you to discounts at local businesses
• Payroll Giving Scheme
• Travel expenses for business mileage and car parking

If you want to be part of this forward-thinking service and can help us to achieve our vision, we'd love to hear from you.

This advert must be read in conjunction with the Job Description and Person Specification. When completing your application, please detail in your supporting statement how you meet the Person Specification requirements.

Please note that interviews will take place on 15th 16th and 17th July 2024

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

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