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Job summary

Main area
Rehab & Recovery Division
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours)
Job ref
455-NLFT-0147
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
4 Greenland Road, London. NW1 0AS
Town
Camden
Salary
per annum inclusive of HCAS
Closing
23/06/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Specialist (Social Worker)

NHS AfC: Band 6

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/ 

Job overview

The Camden & Islington Early Intervention Service is undergoing an exciting expansion,
with the ambition to become a Gold Standard Service. Focused on delivering the Early
Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) model, the service aims to reduce relapse rates,
minimize inpatient admissions, and promote service user recovery through social
inclusion and maximizing strengths and potential. We are looking for energetic,
motivated, and skilled practitioners to join us in achieving this goal.

Main duties of the job

We have an exciting opportunity for Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialists to join the
Islington Early Intervention Service, an innovative and dynamic team supporting
individuals experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis (FEP). As a member of a wellestablished, multi-disciplinary team, you will work with a culturally diverse population in
the London Borough of Islington, helping service users achieve both symptomatic and
social recovery.
Key responsibilities include:

  • Conducting early assessments, diagnoses, and providing treatment for FEP.
  • Delivering person-centered, culturally sensitive care aimed at promoting stability,
    skill development, and social role enhancement.
  • Facilitating both symptomatic and social recovery by actively engaging with
    service users.
     
  • Reducing stigma and ensuring that initial service contact is supportive and nondisconcerting.

Educating and involving carers in the service user’s care journey.
The Islington Early Intervention Service is deeply involved in research and actively
participates in multi-center studies, allowing team members to engage with cutting-edge
mental health initiatives.

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 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 fall 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

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will act as a care coordinator for a defined group of
clients, working autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team. Ideal candidates will
have a strong knowledge of health and psycho-social interventions for FEP and a desire
to further develop skills in a community-based setting.


The role offers a supportive environment with clinical supervision, peer support, and
access to the Early Intervention training program. Additionally, there are opportunities to
contribute to the development and evaluation of group programs for service users.
Join us in making a real impact on mental health recovery in a forward-thinking and
research-focused team.

 

 

 

 

Person specification

Qualifications & Registration

Essential criteria
  • Qualified social worker
  • Current Registration with Social Work England
Desirable criteria
  • Post-qualifying training eg. AMHP/ BIA / Practice Educator / CBT / Family Therapy etc.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a senior capacity in a mental health setting (either acute or community)
  • Experience of working with service users, their carers and partner agencies
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of Care Coordination and / or working in the context of First Episode of Psychosis

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of Mental Health and Social Care legislation including MHA, MCA, Care Act
  • A good understanding of psychosis (medical and psycho-social)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rachel Busby
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07768607601
Additional information

Rachel Busby EIS Service Manager - 07768 607601

Josephine Oluyitan Recruitment Business Manager - [email protected]

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