Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-7900145-CMH
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Carlton Parade/Beckenham Beacon/Erith Centre/Ferryview Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- pa inc
- Closing
- 12/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/04/2026
Employer heading
Associate Mental Health Worker
Band 4
Job overview
** Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post **
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting Associate Mental Health Workers to join our new Psychosis Pathway Care Teams.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a team‑based, recovery‑focused model, supporting people with psychosis to achieve stability, independence and improved quality of life. You will be part of a supportive multidisciplinary Care Team, sharing responsibility for a caseload and delivering practical, therapeutic and social interventions in the community.
We are looking for motivated, compassionate individuals with experience in health or social care who are passionate about working with people with severe mental illness.
Posts are available across Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich, with opportunities for development, supervision and training.
Main duties of the job
As an Associate Mental Health Worker, you will:
- Support service users with psychosis as part of a shared care team caseload
- Deliver practical, recovery‑focused interventions under supervision
- Promote engagement, social inclusion and independence
- Support physical health monitoring and wellbeing
- Contribute to risk management, care planning and reviews
- Maintain high‑quality clinical records using Trust systems
- Work flexibly across community settings in line with service need
- Actively participate in supervision, training and reflective practice
You will be supported to develop your skills and confidence, with clear role expectations and access to training aligned to the new pathway.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A minimum of NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or HNC/HND or equivalent diploma Experiential learning through two years (minimum) working experience as a Health Care Asst, Band 3 in a mental health setting e.g Forensic, Acute Inpatient Setting, Community Mental Health Team & etc.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a health or social care setting
- Experience of liaising with other agencies
Desirable criteria
- Experience in community mental health setting
Skills/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Have a demonstrable interest in working with service users who suffer from mental health problems
- Ability to assess clinical situations quickly and use initiative
- Ability to maintain boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Able to work on own initiative and also part of a team
- Well developed interpersonal skills
- Ability to remain calm in emergency situations and respond in a professional manner
Desirable criteria
- Group facilitation skills
- Report writing skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cara Garrod
- Job title
- Service line manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
[email protected] (Greenwich)
[email protected] (Bromley)
[email protected] (Bexley)
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