Job Description

Bexley MHST seeks to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who are passionate about mental health support in schools, with a demonstrable track record of MHST clinical experience. This is a fixed term contract to cover the existing staff member's annual leave.



This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified SWP, who has at least two year's post qualification experience as an EMHP, to build their experience as a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (SWP) within a highly supportive, creative and dynamic team with the Bexley Mental Health Support Team.

The post holder will:

Work as part of the Bexley MHST team to manage a defined caseload with a focus on providing focused assessment and evidence-based intervention for children and young people (CYP) with mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers. Plan and deliver whole school activities, as part of a school's whole school/college approach to mental health and wellbeing. Provide advice and guided signposting to education settings. Be expected to provide Case Management and Clinical Supervision to qualified and/or trainee EMHPs within the service. Be able to work flexibly across a range of education providers. Promote the participation of children, young people, families, carers and the wider school community. Promote equity, diversity and inclusion within their own role, the MHST and school communities, contributing to enabling other staff, children, young people, families, carers and the wider school community from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

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



Work as part of the Bexley MHST team to manage a defined caseload with a focus on providing focused assessment and evidence-based intervention for children and young people (CYP) with mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers.



Plan and deliver whole school activities, as part of a school's whole school/college approach to mental health and wellbeing.



Provide consultation and guided signposting to education settings. Be expected to provide Case Management and Clinical Skills Supervision to qualified and/or trainee EMHPs within the service.



Ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team, their colleagues, service users and appropriate others are informed/updated of changes involving current care plans, progress, mental state, and psychosocial factors in line with best practice.



Liaise with and advise CYP and families, schools, local authority and other statutory bodies and third sector agencies including children's safeguarding as necessary.



Communicate sensitive information to carers and relatives.



Use a range of communication styles and channels as appropriate to the task.



Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate.



Maintain accurate written records on the electronic record system of the service.



Undertake assessments, culminating in an agreed plan of action and/or care and intervention.



Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options.



Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and/or diagnosis which will lead to the development of personalised needs-led care plan in line with evidence based and routine outcome measures.



Ensure that practice is evidence-based, paying attention to the services' and NICE guidelines, policies, protocols and pathways and other professional standards.



Be available for and participate in individual supervision with agreed clinical supervisor.



Comply with information governance policies.



Comply with the relevant professional standards.



Act in accordance with the NICE Guidelines, data protection and organizational information governance policies and protocols.