Intensive Outreach Clinician
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.
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Job overview
We are looking to recruit Band 6 Community Mental Health Practitioner with a passion for working with people with mental health condition.
This is a well established, high performing team delivering compassionate care in the community to adults who suffer from mental health problem. You will be working in a team that is diverse in background, highly motivated, friendly, agile, flexible and responsive.
The post-holder will provide effective and timely care within a multidisciplinary team setting for working age adults who present with functional mental health problems who are residing in the London Borough of Enfield.
The post holder will carry a defined caseload and will work closely with other members of the team, including Psychologists, Medical professionals, Social Workers, Nurses other Health & Allied professionals to ensure that the best quality of care is provided.
This work will be underpinned by a bio psychosocial model of care and the post holder will ensure that best practice psycho-social interventions are offered wherever possible within their skill set.
Main duties of the job- To work as a Care-coordinator within the team in the planning, delivery, co-ordination and evaluation of assessments and formulation
- To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team including Psychologists Medical professionals and other Allied Professionals to provide optimal
- To carry out complex person-centred assessments.
- To ensure that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions take into account specific physical, cultural, psychological and spiritual needs of service users.
- To assess care needs, devise care programmes, packages of care including Risk assessment, Dialog+ and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and their carers.
- To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement within the team.
- To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the Team Manager when required.
- To undertake comprehensive outcome monitoring of all referrals.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria- Registered Mental Health Practitioner, Professional registration as RNMH/AHP/Occupation Therapist.
- Must be currently registered with appropriate professional body
- Evidence of on-going CPD in portfolio
Previous Experience
Desirable criteria- Post registration experience of working in a mental health setting.
- Experience of multiagency/professional working.
- Working experience as RMN in community mental health
- Minimum of one year post qualification experience as RMN
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria- Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of evidence-based assessments and interventions.
- Able to deal with difficult situations e.g. dealing with aggressive and/or emotional patients or carers.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing.
- High quality record keeping Risk Assessment and Risk Management skills.
Attributes
Essential criteria- Honest, trustworthy and reliable, friendly, approachable.
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands and respond accordingly
- to have a flexible and creative approach to problem solving
- Ability to work under pressure while remaining calm and maintaining quality.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we reserve the right to close any vacancies before the stated closing date. Therefore, please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
In line with NHS protocols, only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We regret that it is not possible to contact all applicants for every vacancy. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome. Please ensure you hold the correct right to work in the UK at the time of your application. Some roles may not be eligible for sponsorship, and we want to make sure you have all the information you need before applying.To avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI guidelines: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
Please note, in order to progress your application your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of North London NHS Foundation Trust. As part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID.You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating.
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We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating an inclusive, fair, and supportive workplace for all. We actively welcome applications from individuals who are under‑represented within our workforce and are dedicated to eliminating discrimination in all its forms.
As a Disability Confident (Two Ticks) employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role and are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.