# Mental Health Practitioner

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Sidcup
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £45953.00 to £54254.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

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

The 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.

**Main duties of the job**

- 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.

**Benefits**

- The Trust offers a range of benefits including Agenda for Change pay scheme, permanent contract, and full-time working pattern.

**Person Specification**

- Qualified with registration as a mental health professional.

- Experience working in Home Treatment Team or Community Mental Health team is desirable.

- Strong understanding of risk management, safeguarding, and confidentiality.

**Additional Information**

- This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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## Skills

### Required
- Mental Health Act
- Mental Capacity Act
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- risk management
- safeguarding
- confidentiality
- medication management
- physical health monitoring
- health promotion
- recovery-focused interventions

### Nice to have
- Experience working in HTT or Community Mental Health team
- OT/RMN/SW

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