Clinical Practitioner

We are seeking to recruit an experienced, motivated clinical practitioner within the Rough Sleeping and Mental Health Programme (RAMHP). The post holder will provide assertive, trauma informed mental health support through outreach; undertake comprehensive assessments, risk management and care planning, care needs assessment and safeguarding alerts as necessary.

RAMHP is an Oxleas Foundation Trust service that aims to improve the mental health of people sleeping rough in the London Broughs of Bromley, Bexley, and Greenwich. The role involves developing close operational working links with other advocacy and support services in the non-profit sector and will enhance, fill gaps, build bridges between services, and help existing services work together more effectively so that rough sleepers are rapidly identified, assessed, supported, and directed so that their recovery is sustained.

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

A central aspect of the role is ensuring that the service provides comprehensive, adaptable, and trauma informed focused care with meaningful involvement of service users. The post holder will carry out joint outreach as may be needed, including outside of the usual 9- 5 work hours.

• To carry out the initial assessments of service users who meet the criteria for the Rough Sleepers Mental Health Project.
• To evaluate effectiveness whilst working within the framework of Risk Assessment.
• To assess, plan, set goals with the service user; implement and evaluate care using psycho-social interventions and skills to meet individual needs.
• To actively support the person in self-management of their symptoms through the formation of their care plan.
• Liaise with other services and undertake referrals to other services.
• To respond to emergency referrals within a timely fashion and to agree protocols and targets.
• To develop and implement appropriate Health Promotion strategies.
• To refer for carers’ assessments and provide information and support to carers as appropriate.
• To be responsible for accurate record keeping in line with Trust, NMC and HCPC policies.
• To respond in an appropriate manner to emotional distress resulting from mental ill health and social deprivation.
• To attempt to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations and to be supportive to colleagues in promoting and maintaining a safe and healthy working environment.
• Manage distressing and challenging situations in a sensitive and non-threatening way to reduce anxieties and promote effective resolutions. Demonstrate appropriate emotional self-regulation and always maintain professional boundaries.
  
  

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: Mazen Nazzal Job title: Service Line Manager Email address: mazen.nazzal@nhs.net Telephone number: 07920410597