Mental Health Practitioner

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Woolwich; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 clinician for the Home Treatment Team in Greenwich. The role involves providing clinical input, complex assessments, and high-autonomy decision-making to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.

You will lead and mentor junior staff, coordinate shifts, manage referrals and coordinate resources, delivering person-centred care across multidisciplinary teams in a community setting.

Qualifications

• Senior clinician providing gatekeeping of acute inpatient admissions and complex assessments.
• Demonstrates advanced risk formulation skills and autonomous decision-making.
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and related legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical teams, mentor junior staff and ensure safe, recovery-focused care.
• Coordinate shifts, manage referrals, resources and service delivery.
• Deliver person-centred care with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Risk assessment

Risk management

Medication management

Legal frameworks knowledge

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust as a valued Band 6 clinician based at Oxleas House, providing clincial input into the Home Treatment Team in Greenwich.

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

As a senior clinician, the post holder will play a key role in the gatekeeping of acute inpatient admissions, undertaking complex assessments to determine whether individuals can be safely and effectively treated in their own homes. This requires a high degree of clinical autonomy, advanced risk formulation skills, and the ability to make robust, evidence-based decisions under pressure.

• An experienced mental health practitioner who provides clinical leadership, supports and mentors junior staff, and ensures safe, high-quality, recovery-focused care. Demonstrates extensive knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and other relevant legislation, ensuring compliance and supporting colleagues to apply legal frameworks in practice.
• leads and coordinates teams during challenging situations, using effective risk management, de‑escalation techniques, and post‑incident debriefing to promote safety and learning. Acts as Shift Coordinator when required, managing workload, prioritising referrals, coordinating resources, and supporting operational service delivery.
• Clinically skilled in conducting comprehensive mental health assessments, MSE, risk assessments, and developing robust risk management and care plans. Works autonomously and collaboratively with service users, carers, multidisciplinary teams, and partner agencies to deliver person‑centred care. Competent in medication management, physical health monitoring, health promotion, recovery‑focused interventions, and safeguarding patient dignity, equality, and rights.
• Committed to developing others through supervision, teaching, mentorship, and constructive feedback while promoting evidence-based practice, professional accountability, and continuous service improvement.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Prabah Kataria Job title: Greenwich Borough Crisis Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07768751528