461 Temporary, Medical / Dental / Health Care jobs in Lewisham

Following additional funding into our CAMHS Liaison and Crisis Team, we are excited to be expanding our staff team. The crisis service provides integrated, high quality assessment, support and interventions in and out of hours. We work closely with the Adolescent teams and borough based clinical teams across the three boroughs, as well as with tier 4 (inpatient services) which are provided by the South London Partnership. The crisis team is multidisciplinary, and is supported by a team manager, consultant nurse, operational manager and a full time Consultant Psychiatrist.,

• To carry out effective bio psychosocial assessments of individuals in crisis referred to the team from community mental health teams, GPs and other sources.
• To carry out effective risk assessment and management, seeking advice from multi- disciplinary colleagues and other teams where needed
• To provide a range of agreed brief crisis clinical interventions to service users and their relatives in any setting, aimed at increasing the individual's psychological stability
• To develop effective crisis plans with individuals which will improve their future resilience
• To assess the welfare of people discharged from inpatient wards in a timely manner
• To liaise collaboratively with hospital and community based mental health services, both within Oxleas and elsewhere, also with emergency services and non-statutory bodies.
• To maintain comprehensive and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust standards
• You will work closely with colleagues within the crisis team, borough CAMHS services and wider colleagues across the South London Partnership. In addition, there will be opportunity to work closely with acute trust and social care colleagues.
  
  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