Total 10 Finance / Banking / Insurance job vacancies in Greenwich, SE18 3RG

Through investment and recognition of the benefit of Family & Systemic Psychotherapy, exciting opportunities have arisen in Oxleas Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services in Greenwich. We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Family and Systemic Psychotherapist to join our team at Band 7 working towards a Band 8a Preceptorship (competency-based assessment).

This post holder is situated within Greenwich CAMH Service.

To provide the CAMHS team with a high quality, evidence based systemic psychotherapy service to children, their families, carers and professional networks, in keeping with CYP-IAPT principles.

To provide specialist systemic assessment and therapy to families with children and adolescents who are referred to CAMHS.

To provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnoses and treatment to CAMHS colleagues, external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.

To contribute to the development, implementation, and audit of services for families with children presenting to the Service.

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

Clinical:

1. To provide a specialist systemic assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a child’s or adolescent’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence. To use routine outcome measures as laid down by the Trust.

2. To assess children, adolescents and their families as part of a risk assessment.

3. To consult to parents/carers (including foster parents) as part of a treatment plan.

4. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children with learning difficulties, and children who are on the ‘Child Protection Register’, and parents with mental health difficulties. Competence is required in undertaking systemic therapy with families using an interpreter where English is not their first language.

5. To provide specialist systemic psychotherapy with clinical autonomy drawing on a range of models and wherever possible brief interventions. To practice in a way which is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual in the system including family members in their varying developmental stages and current emotional state.

6. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options considering highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the child, family or group, and their difficulties.

7. To be responsible for implementing a range of systemic psychotherapeutic interventions for children, adolescents, and their families, including couples and groups, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining several provisional hypotheses in reaching a formulation and treatment plan. Interventions may include family psychotherapy, individual work, chairing professionals, and network meetings, liaising with other agencies, observations of young people in different settings, and the use of a range of systemic models.

8. To exercise full autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients, and formulate effective care plans in collaboration with the client and family. To undertake risk assessment and risk management relevant to individual patients, including protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships, and to do this using the knowledge of the multi professional context that is a mental health service for the locality.

9. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members to enhance and develop work with families by providing specialist knowledge and skills.


This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Dec 2024

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As a Senior Project Manager, the post holder will work as part of the directorate team to implement a new service within the psychosis pathway across 3 boroughs. This is an exciting new service which will provide improve management of depot medication and physical health checks and annual reviews for people with psychosis as a step down to primary care. This in turn will enable increase capacity and opportunities for service improvement in our busy psychosis teams. There will be an expectation to support the development of new pathways and service provision within the psychosis pathway.
• Project Management of multiple projects and programmes
• Communication with senior Health and Social Care staff
• Service improvement, development and transformation
• Understanding of healthcare finance, job descriptions recruitment and governance processes

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

This role is an exciting opportunity to develop and implement new services within the psychosis pathway across three busy South London Boroughs - Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

This will require experience of working within healthcare, communication, influencing and negotiation with a range of stakeholders including clinicians, residents and patients.

Strong leadership and project management skills to enable the prioritisation of multiple projects and programmes to ensure all are delivered on time.

Please see the attached Job Description for further information.


This advert closes on Thursday 28 Nov 2024

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The current service director for Children and Young People’s Services leaves at the end of March 2025, offering a fantastic opportunity for someone new to provide the strategic and operational leadership for the Children and Young People’s Directorate. The post holder will be responsible for the safe delivery of effective mental health, physical health and public health services to this population. You will be responsible for a budget of £46 million and 700 staff including nursing, medical, psychological therapies, allied health professionals and staff in management and support roles, as well as responsibility for a number of sub-contracts.

You will be an excellent, compassionate leader who will be passionate about ensuring that our Oxleas values – We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen and We Care – are felt throughout the Directorate. You will be a key part of the Trust Executive, and you will lead on ensuring that colleagues in your services, which are diverse and dispersed, feel a strong sense of being part of the Oxleas family.

We believe that the variety and diversity of personal experience and the combination of different backgrounds in our Executive Team is as important to understanding and delivering quality to patients as our clinical and professional qualifications. So, we are interested in where your understanding of the importance of diversity comes from and how you will use this to contribute to both the Executive and the Directorate team that you manage.

We are committed to advocating for children and working in partnership to achieve the best we can for them and their families. The CYP Directorate also delivers sexual health services and community gynaecology. A central part of your role will involve working with our external partners in Education, Health and Social Care across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley and with our partners in the South London Mental Health Partnership (SLP). We also have strong partnership links with voluntary, community and social enterprise providers which are key to us delivering our services across the Boroughs.



The Directorate services aredelivered from locations across the three boroughsand therefore strong leadership and strategic thinking are key to this role together with an ability to work flexibly across the demands of the different systems and the challenges each of them has.



As a member of the Trust Executive, you will play an important role in shaping the future for our patients and in continuing to make it one of the best places to work for our staff.

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 main responsibilities of this role are to be responsible for the strategic and operational performance of children and young people’s services and ensure that performance and financial targets are met. You will also be responsible for leading the Directorate Management Team, maintaining a collective leadership approach, identifying, and jointly achieving the Directorate priorities.



You will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of specific integrated care pathways across children’s services with education and social care colleagues with a focus on health inequalities.



The range of services provided by the directorate include:



CAMHS

CAMHS Borough Teams in Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley

Mental Health in Schools Teams - Greenwich and Bexley

Triborough Crisis and DBT Teams



Specialist Services - Greenwich and Bexley

Contraception, Sexual Health and Community Gynaecology

Community Paediatrics

Integrated Neurodisability Services

Children's Community Nursing

Therapies; Dietetics, Music Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy

Audiology

Children's Continuing Care

Young Greenwich School Nursing

LAC

Administrative Single Point of Access



As a member of the Executive Team, you will contribute to the attainment of the strategic goals and overall management of Trust business.



Can you help Oxleas continue to strive for equity for both its staff and those who use its services? Do you have the flexibility and openness of mind to work with colleagues in your services and in the Executive team to develop innovative approaches to improving patient health? Are you committed to improving outcomes for the diverse cultural and socioeconomic communities that we deliver services to? Can you be an advocate within the NHS and the wider clinical world for the innovations that you and our staff develop at Oxleas?



You will have led the delivery of health, education or social care within one or more complex organisations and have the vision and drive to bring about system-level change. Can you bring us, through your personal life experience or professional skills, insights that will enhance our ability to make a significant difference to the experience at work of our diverse staff and to the treatment of patients?



We are keen to encourage applications from the widest variety of people. We welcome applications from all people, including those from a global majority background, those who live with a disability (visible or not) and those who identify as LGBTQ+.



This is a highly rewarding role for someone who is dedicated to delivering the best possible healthcare to children and their families.


This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Dec 2024

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Following additional funding into our CAMHS Liaison and Crisis Team, we are excited to be expanding our staff team.

The crisis service provides integrated, high quality assessment, support and interventions in and out of hours. We work closely with the Adolescent teams and borough based clinical teams across the three boroughs, as well as with tier 4 (inpatient services) which are provided by the South London Partnership. The crisis team is multidisciplinary, and is supported by a team manager, consultant nurse, operational manager and a full time Consultant Psychiatrist.

The pathway is made up of the Crisis Team, DBT Team and the Intensive Home Treatment Team.


• To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
• To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multi- disciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed
• To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual’s psychological stability
• To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience
• To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner
• To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
• To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards
• You will work closely with colleagues within the crisis team, borough CAMHS services and wider colleagues across the South London Partnership. In addition, there will be opportunity to work closely with acute trust and social care colleagues.



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 be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
• To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
• To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to the multi-agency network.
• To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
• To gate keep all referrals to inpatient services to test their suitability for home treatment as an alternative to admission.
• To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multidisciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed.
• To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual’s psychological stability.
• To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience.
• To provide phone advice to people in crisis.
• To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner.
• To carry out assessments of mental capacity as required to do so.
• To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
• To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards.
• To work extended hours within a two shift system over seven days per week.




This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Dec 2024

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The Business Intelligence team is responsible for developing data products that meet the needs of our clinicians and patients. We do this by capturing requirements, writing specifications, writing extract code, testing and publishing great reports and dashboards that are robust and accurate.

You will be responsible for writing specifications, developing the correct logic to meet the specification, documenting the various stages and preparing your product for deployment into our warehouse infrastructure.

You will work alongside other members of a diverse development team and will contribute as a point of contact for all product related issues logged on our service desk. You will need strong applied knowledge of full stack development. PowerBI and knowledge and experience of data warehousing would be an advantage and to your ability to work autonomously in the delivery of new reporting products as well as maintenance and alteration of existing ones will be required.

Builds complex information reports and dashboards and plays a key role in the development of the Trusts Business Information systems. The post holder will also contribute to technical improvements, maintain technical documentation, and perform additional duties as assigned by the manager.
• Support the Business Intelligence Development Manager.
• Look after the development and testing lifecycle of systems changes.
• Production of general technical documentation.
• Execution of other duties appropriate to the skills and experience of the post holder which may be identified by the manager.
• Take a proactive approach to developing own skills and experience.
• Work autonomously within professional and NHS guidelines, interpreting and acting on this interpretation as appropriate.
• Recommends changes and improvements to policies both within the development team and throughout the whole department.
• Shares knowledge and best practice principles with colleagues at all levels.
• Undertakes any other duties as required which are consistent with the grade and nature of the post.
• Demonstrates a proactive approach to responsibilities and exhibits ‘customer focused’ thinking

Please see further responsibilities below and in the attached Job Description

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

Management responsibilities:
• Deputises for the Business Intelligence Manager
• Liaises with Data Services team members to ensure that systems developments and associated reports continue to meet the needs of the Trust
• Delivers regular technical training to the Data Services team and other areas as appropriate.

Leadership:
• Reports to the Business Intelligence Development Manager.
• Non-clinical position.
• Actively contributes to team improvement and provides coaching to colleagues as needed.

Communication:
• Provides complex verbal, written and graphical business and analytical information to the performance and information team and managers throughout the Trust.
• Ensures that potentially contentious and sensitive information is clearly communicated especially where there may be barriers to understanding.
• Undertakes audits and surveys as required within own work area. Analyses the results of these audits and surveys and uses the information obtained to improve own, Trust and departmental performance.

For further information please see the Job Description attached.


This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Nov 2024

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Applicants are advised to apply early, this vacancy is very likely to close early due to high numbers of applicants.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our integrated team and support the collaboration between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and the London Borough of Bexley.

The team provides holistic health and social care assessments for people over the age 18 years, who are registered with a Bexley GP and/ or live in the Borough of Bexley .

The team act as a liaison between acute and community settings, by identifying the most appropriate onward referrals and initiating integrated care pathways, ensuring seamless provision of care and on- going case management. Referrals are received from Health and Social Care professionals, Medical Teams, General Practitioners, and Ambulance Services

This post will work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team, including health and social services colleagues to meet the needs of clients referred to the Rapid Response Team , ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.

This post will involve assisting the physiotherapy occupational therapy and nursing staff in delivering rehabilitation programmes, treatment sessions, and undertake clinical nursing activities.

The post holder will deliver designated individualised care and support plans within the community setting, supporting the Rapid Response Team members by facilitating high quality evidence based practice.

The Rapid Response Team (RRT) is a multi- professional team consisting of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Advanced Primary Care Nurses, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Social Workers, Health and Social Care Assistants, and administrators. The team aims to avoid unnecessary presentation to hospital and residential care, by supporting community patients who are in crisis and to prevent direct hospital admission from Accident and Emergency and other areas such as Frailty Clinic and Clinical Decision Units.

The Rapid Response team is able to provide community follow up and support and review for up to 5 days.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. 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 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across 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

• Assist patient with activities of daily living
• To work closely with the registered therapists, nurses and wider MDT.
• Support the implementation if care plans; including therapy plans.
• Engage patients in therapeutic activities, monitoring their physical and mental state and progress.
• Undertake appropriately delegated clinical tasks once deemed competent i.e. Venepuncture – urinalyses – wound care – monitor blood pressure – temperature – pulse – respiratory rate – blood sugar
• To engage in supervision, reflecting on and modifying practice where indicated
• To promote independence and wellbeing for the patients to regain their previous level of independence as quickly as possible.

You will be working under the direct supervision of the Registered Therapists and Nurses.

You must have basic computer literacy and be able to document care delivered on RiO.

You must be a car driver with access to a car for work


This advert closes on Wednesday 20 Nov 2024

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Older peoples Mental Health Liaison nurse, Band 6

We have a vacancy for a band 6 Mental Health Liaison Nurse in the older adult’s mental health liaison team. We are based in the Queen Elizabeth hospital and provide support for patients in the emergency department and on the inpatient wards.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic, proactive and caring team. The post is for a full time post working shifts on a rota basis, Monday to Friday 8am-8pm and 9-5 on weekends and Public Holidays.

The successful applicant will have an understanding of the nature and impact of mental health issues particular in relation to older people. You will need to have excellent communication skills and the ability to lead and work proactively and flexibly within the team. You will need to be skilled in mental health assessments and have a clear understanding of assessing and managing risk.

You will need to have experience as a qualified mental health nurse and experience of working with older adults would be an advantage but not essential.

We offer a comprehensive induction program and continuing support and professional development. You will benefit from working within a creative supportive team and will be encouraged to develop interventions suitable for our client group. Please note that Oxleas operates a probationary period, further information is available on request.

To carry out timely and effective biopsychosocial assessments of individuals referred to the team from the Emergency Department, and wards within the acute trust.



To consider all necessary sources of information in formulating the assessment and care plan.



To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in carrying out effective risk assessment and management, formulating appropriate and safe care plans.



To carry out assessments of mental capacity and use this to inform appropriate treatment decisions.



To liaise and consult effectively with all necessary personnel from the acute trust, Oxleas mental health teams, other mental health providers, community health services and the emergency services.



To communicate effectively and in a respectful manner with service users and carers.



To arrange the safe and timely transfer of clients to Oxleas in-patient wards and other hospitals and units as required.



To be responsible for the full biopsychosocial and risk assessment of clients presenting with a wide variety of mental health conditions. Following this, the post holder will be responsible for the formulation and planning of care / treatment.



To take into account all necessary sources of information in formulating the assessment and care plan.



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

Please see JD and PS for detailed information



We have a vacancy for a band 6 Mental Health Liaison Nurse in the older adult’s mental health liaison team. We are based in the Queen Elizabeth hospital and provide support for patients in the emergency department and on the inpatient wards.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic, proactive and caring team. The post is for a full time post working shifts on a rota basis, Monday to Friday 8am-8pm and 9-5 on weekends and Public Holidays.


This advert closes on Monday 18 Nov 2024

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Greenwich CAMHS are pleased to offer a band 7-8a preceptorship post with guaranteed funding for further training. We welcome applications from trainees qualifying later this year and current Band 7 colleagues wishing to expand their experience.


Role Opportunities
This post within Greenwich CAMHS provides the opportunity to be part of a large CAMHS service, providing support to families and young people across a range of care sectors. The post is part of a multidisciplinary team working with young people requiring assessment and intervention for a range of complex metal health needs.

There is a large psychology team within Greenwich CAMHS which offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. Early identification of areas for development and training are key in the preceptorship process and this role comes with allocated funding to access training identified through a Personal Development Plan.

The attached preceptorship criteria document outlines the process for promotion to 8a, 18 months to 2 years after qualifying as a band 7.


Band 7 job overview

Overview of the Post
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients across all sectors of care, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary team which has close links with a wide range of agencies.


Band 8 Overview

This post is based in the experienced and established Greenwich CAMHS. This is a multidisciplinary service which offers care across a range of sectors.

The role includes the following: providing a qualified clinical psychology (or equivalent) service for children, young people and their families up to 18 years old; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy; undertaking goal-based case management; supervising the clinical work of trainee clinical psychologists and other professionals; and offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation

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

Key Task and Responsibilities
Clinical:
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options; considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
6. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.
7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care.
Leadership
1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
2. To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of practitioner (clinical / counselling) psychology over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.
3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work, as appropriate.
4. To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of relevant healthcare staff, as appropriate.
6. To contribute to external and internal training programmes withinCAMHS
Management responsibilities
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistant and graduate psychologists, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists.
Research
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To undertake audit or research as appropriate within the service, Directorate, or multi-centred research across Trusts and to supervise research and audit projects.
3. To utilise theory, literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other members of the service, Directorate and the Trust.
4. To contribute to the evaluation, monitoring and development of the multi-disciplinary specialist CAMHS.
General
1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholder’s professional and service manager(s).
2. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
3. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
4. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.


This advert closes on Monday 18 Nov 2024

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District Nursing Sister, Band 6 Greenwich DN Teams

Permanent; Full Time - 37.5 hrs per week

We are seeking to appoint an innovative Community District Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse. You must hold the District Nurse Specialist Practitioner Qualification. You will manage a District Nursing team within the Greenwich Directorate of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

The successful candidates will be part of a progressive and supportive team located in South East London. Our District Nursing Service delivers care to a diverse population across the borough of Greenwich.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, conscientious, adaptable manager and team player with highly developed nursing skills.

You must be able to work on your own initiative. Previous clinical team management experience is essential.

In our district nursing teams, due to the requirement to be able to travel between patients’ homes in a timely manner, a full UK driver’s licence is essential as well as access to a car for work purposes.

You will be committed to the development of the team through effective leadership and be given the opportunity to develop your own clinical skills through the delivery of a wide range of evidence based care and an active personal development plan.

These posts are not suitable for RMN or Learning Disability nurses.

The post holder will lead a team of nurses and support staff with the responsibility of managing the care for a defined caseload.

Community Nurses work as part of a team delivering high quality evidence based nursing care to clients within their own home, residential homes and clinical environments. As part of a District Nursing team you will have a role placing emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation as well as curative and palliative care.

The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students and other health care 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
• To assess, plan, implement and provide regular evaluation of health care needs in conjunction with patients, their carers and other appropriate members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Prioritisation, organisation and appropriate delegation of the responsibilities and workloads within the team will be required to ensure efficient and effective service provisions
• To be responsible for the caseload management of patients within the practice population.
• To be responsible for keeping up to date with current issues and events in Primary Health Care.
• To actively participate and influence the developments of Community nursing services.
• To provide support and health education programmes for patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.
• To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the trust as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.
• To work alongside other members of the multidisciplinary team e.g. attend meetings of Primary Health Care Team.
• To ensure own mandatory training and team members mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Trust policies
• Ability to use Information Technology including Word, email and the internet and RIO
• Participation in complaint investigations, when requested.



This advert closes on Monday 18 Nov 2024

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Highly Specialist OT Joint Emergency Team

Full Time
**PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**

The Joint Emergency Team aims to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions and facilitate early discharges from hospital by acting as the gateway to the Integrated Community Services within the borough of Greenwich. The team responds to referrals requiring intervention within 2 hours which includes the falls pick up service. The virtual ward is an integral part of this team and enables treatment and monitoring within the patients own home for a period of up to 14 days.

The team provides a multi-professional assessment of health and social care needs to support the immediate crisis, identifying specialist assessment and rehabilitation requirements. The team is able to monitor and provide intervention to support patients through an acute period of illness. The team is able to provide equipment necessary to maintain patients / clients at home.

JET is a seven day service that operates from 08:00 to 20:30, including bank holidays.

The Occupational Therapist will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, including health and social care colleagues to meet the needs of clients referred to the Joint emergency Team, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.
• To conduct specialist and generic assessments with the MDT for clients referred to Joint Emergency Team.
• To organise transfer to intermediate care facilities (at home or intermediate care beds) as appropriate, care packages as required and onward referrals.
• To provide advanced specialist Occupational Therapy input to clients referred to the team including patients on the virtual ward.
• To provide clinical leadership into the day-to-day delivery of Occupational Therapy in the Joint Emergency Team, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice. This includes supervision and support of junior staff and students.
• To support the Team Manager in establishing and monitoring a robust clinical governance framework for the Joint Emergency Team.
• To work in line with the Trust objectives for community practice.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 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
• Be able to work alone in the community in a variety of settings, independent of multi- disciplinary support whilst in direct contact with clients and their carers.
• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all professional activities including occupational therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment of clients referred to the team as an autonomous practitioner and in partnership with the client/carer; obtaining consent in accordance with professional guidelines and local team.
• Demonstrate and apply theoretical knowledge of acute, multiple, complex and long-term pathologies and impairments in the assessment and management of clients.
• Use a range of highly specialist clinical assessments and skills to ensure effective management of clients
• Recommend appropriate interventions to promote independence and safety, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice.
• Carry out clinical risk assessment and complete risk management plans relevant to the client, including risk assessments for equipment provided. Ensure management of clinical risk identified.
• Complete an individual care plan for clients who require input from integrated community services (bed-based or home based input).
• Engage in joint patient assessment/ treatment with more junior staff as need dictates.
• Work in a co-ordinated manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network to ensure that client’s needs are met.
• Provide specialist advice and education to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence and identified needs.
• Provide highly specialist advice & second opinions to more junior colleagues/others regarding the management and care of patients/clients physical needs.
• Maintain up-to-date clinical written records and electronic database in accordance with local and professional standards; and also writing comprehensive reports on clients including discharge letters to medical referrers.
• Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision, installation and demonstration of equipment.
• Utilise and further develop knowledge of minor/major adaptation provision and non-stock equipment availability and use.
• Participate in MDT meetings and family conferences as required.
• Seek advice/guidance from managers or more experienced colleagues when required.
• Be able to identify when and how to terminate involvement or refer onwards to appropriate teams/services and complete input in a timely, seamless manner.


This advert closes on Monday 11 Nov 2024

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