Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Practitioner
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Oxleas MHST Recruitment for Band 6 MHST Senior Practitioners
Oxleas MHST is excited to announce that we are recruiting Band 6 MHST Senior Practitioners to join our award-winning teams in Bexley & Greenwich. These posts are open to registered mental health nurses, occupational therapists, and social workers.
Role Overview
Mental Health Support Teams work with children, young people, and families across schools in Bexley & Greenwich.
Desired Candidate Profile
We seek to appoint enthusiastic and dynamic individuals with a passion for early intervention and prevention. Candidates should have worked previously in mental health clinical settings and ideally have some CAMHS and supervision experience.
About Mental Health Support Teams
Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting National initiative, working in collaboration with education settings, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people.
- Focus on early intervention
- Improving access
- Supporting the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing within schools
Oxleas MHST works within a Thrive framework alongside education colleagues and community partners.
Supervision Course Requirement
Please note we welcome applicants who have not completed the EMHP supervision course.
There will be an expectation that successful candidates, who have not completed the course, commence the fully funded one-year supervision course at Kings College London from January 2027.
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Role Responsibilities
The MHST Senior Practitioner role supports the delivery of evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions for children and young people presenting with mild to moderate mental health needs.
- Joint working and close liaison with education colleagues
- Support the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing within school settings
- Facilitate appropriate signposting to other services as required
- Contribute to the delivery and development of a quality MHST service within Oxleas
The MHST Senior Practitioners, together with MHST Lead practitioners, offer support and supervision to the MHST workforce. It is an expectation of the role that the post holders have completed, or are willing to complete, the required Education Mental Health Practitioner supervision course in order to appropriately support the EMHP workforce.
About Oxleas
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
- Mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies
Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector 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.
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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, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose
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
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
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Name: John Rea
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Job title: Bexley MHST Team Manager
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Email address: john.rea1@nhs.net
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Telephone number: 07384806388
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Name: Linda Adedayo
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Job title: Greenwich MHST Team Manager
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Email address: Linda.adedayo2@nhs.net
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Mobile: 07710009452
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