Employer: 455 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Lowther Road
Town: London
Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/04/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It 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 aims to deliver Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
We have a fixed-term vacancy for a Mental Health Practitioner in the North Islington Core Team. This is a commissioned service provided by North London Foundation Trust Local Authority and VCS partners including Hillside Clubhouse and Age UK. The service was developed in response to the Five Year Forward View, GP and commissioner and service user feedback, and in line with the CIFT clinical strategy to enhance mental health expertise and support of primary care.
Main Duties of the Job
The aim of the service is to increase the number of people whose mental health support is appropriately managed within primary care and to enhance the capability and confidence of primary care staff to manage mental health conditions. Patients may have complex mental health difficulties, long-term physical health conditions, and/or be frequent users of GP or A&E and other resources. They may have been previously known to secondary care mental health services and may no longer meet their criteria or may not be willing to engage. Much of the support to primary care staff is achieved through a combination of consultation, liaison and advice, mental health assessment and review, case formulation, and risk assessment.
The service consists of 3 multidisciplinary teams across 3 geographically aligned neighbourhoods in Camden (NW3, West, and South). Each of these neighbourhoods is aligned to specific GP Practices. Each practitioner holds a small caseload while patients are receiving interventions from within the service. This is to maintain the capacity of the service to respond quickly to 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:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
Why NLFT?
* 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.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. 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
Kindly have a look at the attached job description and person specification for the detailed job description.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
* Professional Qualification (RMN, OT, SW) with current professional registration with relevant body.
* Evidence of mental health training.
* Evidence of continued relevant professional development.
Experience & Skills
* Experience of working within a community setting relating to mental health.
* Experience of inter-agency working.
* Assessment and care planning skills.
* Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
* Organisational skills.
* Experience of working with drug and alcohol services.
* Experience of supervising staff/junior personnel.
* Experience of leadership of project or working groups/policy implementation.
* Experience of working in primary care.
Abilities
* Ability to develop and deliver a service that promotes choice, involving patients and their relatives, friends, and carers in all discussions regarding needs and care provided.
* Ability to work effectively under own initiative.
If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification and job description and would like to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust at this time, we would be interested in receiving your application.
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 and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment, please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system.
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.
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.
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.
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