An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced Band 4 Senior Support Healthcare Workers to join the Adult Community Mental Health Directorate.
These posts are based across Greenwich and Bromley Community Mental Health services, supporting adults with enduring mental health needs within a recovery-focused community setting.
Working under the guidance of registered mental health professionals, the post holder will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care, supporting service users to improve their mental and physical wellbeing, promote independence, and achieve their recovery goals.
The role includes supporting physical health monitoring, undertaking clinical observations, assisting with care planning and risk assessment processes, participating in multidisciplinary interventions, and providing practical and emotional support to service users and their families. Candidates should have experience working within health, social care, or mental health services and be committed to delivering compassionate, inclusive, and recovery-oriented care.
** Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post **
- Support the delivery of recovery-focused care for adults with mental health needs across community services in Greenwich and Bromley.
- Work under the supervision of Registered Mental Health Nurses and other clinicians to implement care plans and risk management strategies.
- Undertake physical health monitoring, including clinical observations and reporting concerns appropriately.
- Assist in physical health clinics, wellbeing interventions, and other therapeutic activities.
- Support service users to maintain independence, develop life skills, access education, employment, housing, and community resources.
- Participate in home visits, CPA reviews, ward rounds, and multidisciplinary meetings as required.
- Maintain accurate electronic patient records and documentation in accordance with Trust policies.
- Provide practical and emotional support to service users, carers, and families.
- Promote equality, inclusion, safeguarding, dignity, and respect in all aspects of care delivery.
- Work collaboratively with internal and external agencies to support positive outcomes for service users.
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Paul Graham Job title: Operational Lead Email address: paul.graham7@nhs.net Telephone number: 0208 301 8993
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