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Job overview

The post-holder will work with other members of the MDT, including nursing, psychology, social work, and support workers, monitoring individuals’ safety, providing a range of social, psychological, and medication-based interventions, and working closely with families and carers. 

The team works closely with the unit’s two inpatient wards, Lesney and Millbrook, assisting the unit’s management team with their active bed-management programme, facilitating early discharge, and with community teams to help prevent unnecessary hospital admission. The post holder will provide, working with team colleagues, rapid medical assessments of mental state and risk, where appropriate, assist with formulating and diagnosing patients’ difficulties in a holistic manner, and instigate appropriate care packages.

Main duties of the job

• Support to the consultant and the HTT in developing and maintaining the caseloads of all patients on the caseload ensuring that Core Assessments, Risk Assessments and Care Plans are available in RiO case records

• Provision of reviews, and home assessment sessions, including Mental Health Act, where necessary to the HTT

• Development of comprehensive case-note summaries, comprehensive multi-axial assessment processes and care planning in line with NICE Guidelines

• To attend relevant HTT meetings

• To ensure the involvement of families and carers, wherever possible, with the patient’s consent in treatment planning. 

• To support the consultant in preparing any necessary reports, and attending Mental Health Review Tribunals (although this is a very infrequent occurrence in the HTT)

• To support the consultant to ensure that all Relapse Prevention and Crisis Plans for patients on Enhanced CPA are available in RiO case records and are updated

• Providing clinical cover for the consultant, when she/he is away on leave, with supervision by another consultant.

Working for our organisation

At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England.  Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Oxleas is a great place to work.  It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts. 

“We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Oxleas family.  We care about making Oxleas a great place to work - it’s a big priority in our strategy.  Come and join us - it’s a place where our values, teamwork, equity, and wellbeing matter and where you can really help to improve people’s lives.”

Ify Okocha

Chief Executive