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Job overview

Bexley Mental Health Support Team (MHST) is excited to announce that we are recruiting a Band 6 Senior Practitioner to join our large team of practitioners, offering CBT informed guided self-help early intervention to children, young people and families within a number of primary and secondary schools within the borough. 

Main duties of the job

Mental Health Support Teams are part of a large scale national initiative, aiming to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people within education settings, address health inequalities, improve access and support education colleagues with a whole school approach to wellbeing.

There is a specific focus on developing more access to helping and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools. Working alongside community partners the Mental Health Support Teams will be part of Bexley CAMHS schools pathway.

The senior practitioner role will support the delivery of a wide range of evidence-based interventions, both 1:1 & group, to support young people’s mental health. The role also requires joint working with education colleagues to support the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing within school settings. The post holder will be part of the senior MHST staff group working to support the delivery & development of a quality service within Bexley.

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who is passionate about working with young people. The candidate should have worked previously in mental health clinical settings and ideally have some CAMHS experience and supervisory experience. To apply for this position you need to hold a core profession and be registered with a professional body (i.e. nurse, social worker, OT etc).

Working for our organisation

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