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 to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: North London NHS Foundation Trust
Job Overview
Previous applicants need not apply.
NHS England/Improvement has developed a new Framework to support local systems in implementing the NHS Long Term Plan's vision for transforming community mental health care. This Framework sets out how the LTP's vision for a new place-based community mental health model can be realised, and how we can modernise community mental health services to shift to whole person, whole population health approaches.
The role of Clinical Practice Specialist is fundamental to the developing of these innovative new ways of working. The role will support the ongoing development and mobilisation of integrated mental health service offers with a specialist clinical focus on the discharge and step-down pathway, Assertive in-reach into the community, and supporting the flow within the team, especially with difficult-to-reach patients. The role provides and promotes flexible and responsive access to assessment, treatment, and/or onward bridging to community resources and support, in line with evidence-based interventions for people with serious mental illness. The role will help people to focus on achievable goals and access local community resources as part of their recovery and care plan.
The service offer will be for people over 18 years who are experiencing mental health difficulties but with a specific focus on: the step down and in-reach pathways being developed and implemented into community clinical protocols and models.
Main Duties of the Job
* Provide follow-up care for service users who are difficult to engage or struggling to access care and support. In addition, support the teams' clinical thinking and decision-making as part of the step down and discharge pathways within the teams.
* Work closely with colleagues in specialist community mental health services to ensure smooth transitions between teams and services and facilitate an 'easy in, easy out' approach to improve access to evidence-based interventions.
* Provide a responsive place-based care and support for clients in immediate crisis where their needs/difficulties are best met or understood within a biopsychosocial model and away from physical health settings (A&E).
* Offer professional support which can be accessed by community partners such as the police, paramedics, and GPs who are seeking clinical advice around mental health crisis or when the use of s136 is being considered.
* Use evidence-based practice to provide assessment and interventions that promote the engagement of the client in treatment, to assist them into recovery.
* Share in the clinical management of a defined caseload and develop an interface with other services and agencies so that service users are offered focused and coordinated packages of care which are appropriate to their needs.
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.
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
* To work in collaboration with Consultant Psychiatrists and other lead professionals for the Adult Mental Health and Social Care team.
* Provide a brief clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation, and short-term contingency planning for people presenting with mental health needs or support.
* Provide care or support via telephone/video or face-to-face assessments.
* Work closely with other mental health services and agencies, such as the police, ambulance, local authority, and third sector.
* Using a range of brief solution-focused interventions, empower people, carers, and their families in decision-making; diverting to a range of health and social care resources for support.
* Communicate with service users and callers at their level of understanding, culture, and background. Remain courteous and professional at all times.
* Provide skilled and detailed triage, full assessment, and intervention to clients for all follow-up or new referrals to the team. In the event of support during a mental health crisis, redirecting to the most appropriate services.
* Offer support and advice to carers in prevention and management of crisis situations.
* Provide clinical advice, education, support, and training to team colleagues, CMHTs, primary healthcare teams, other professionals, service users, and carers on the management of mental health problems.
* Deliver care that is evidence-based, reflecting current best practice and research.
* To maintain safe and acceptable standards of practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
This is not an exhaustive list; please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Registrations
Essential Criteria
* NMC registered qualification (RMN) and non-medical prescribing qualification (V300)
* Current RMN registration with NMC
* Substantial post-registration experience within the mental health nursing specialty
Desirable Criteria
* Project Management qualification
* Master's Degree (MSC/MBA) or equivalent experience
Skills/Abilities
Essential Criteria
* Demonstrate an ability to communicate service-related information to senior managers, staff, and external agencies/partners
* Demonstrate ability for operational planning and business planning
* Ability to give formal presentations/manage and reconcile conflicting views where there are significant barriers to acceptance or understanding
* A commitment to the engagement and involvement of service users in delivering a high-quality service
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.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents e.g., Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
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 cost savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
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Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to Download
* Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 424.4KB)
* NLFT Functional Requirement (PDF, 536.5KB)
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