Bexley 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.
The Home treatment team works in close collaboration with the other elements of the
crisis services, including the Assessment and Admission Avoidance (AAA) Team and
Mental Health Liaison Teams (MHLTs) in-patient wards, community mental health
teams and local authorities.
The post holder will be expected to promote and develop clinical leadership and
clinical practice and be a positive role model to junior members of the team through
the practice of evidence based care. The post holder will be expected to support
professional development through clinical appraisal and supervision and contribute to
the ongoing educational programme for staff, fostering a positive learning
environment. The post holder will be encouraged to foster collaborative cross
organisational working.
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
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.
The Home treatment team works in close collaboration with the other elements of the crisis services, including the Assessment and Admission Avoidance (AAA) Team and Mental Health Liaison Teams (MHLTs) in-patient wards, community mental health teams and local authorities.
