Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational and Vocational Department
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (N/A)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0115
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chase Farm Hospital
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £31,081 - £33,665 Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Employment, Training and Education Advisor
Band 4
Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being 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
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated full time Band 4 Employment, Training and Education (ETE) Advisor to join our Occupational and Vocational Team at the North London Forensic Service (NLFS). The service manages and facilitates the transition of high-risk service users with severe and enduring mental illness through secure inpatient services into the community, working across to the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield & Haringey.
The post involves working across the male and female low and medium secure inpatient wards, within the community with service users under the outreach teams
NLFT encourage people who have experienced mental health problems to apply for any post within the Trust for which they meet the person specification. The Trust is committed to flexible working and wherever possible will endeavour to accommodate requests for specific working patterns taking into account service needs.
Main duties of the job
The ETE Advisor will be responsible for providing information, advice and guidance to the client group in supporting them to access and secure Education, Training & Employment opportunities within the community. The ETE Programme uses a recovery-orientated approach to deliver personalised support tailored specifically to meet the needs and aspirations of each individual. Service aims are focused on co-production with an emphasis on encouraging social inclusion, improving self-esteem, confidence, self-belief and hope for the future, cultivating the discovery or re-discovery of a sense of personal identity; and developing meaningful structure promoting inclusion in their local communities.
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
The post holder will be based at Chase Farm Hospital and be required to work on the secure wards and travel across the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey to support those under the outreach teams. The post requires autonomous working, as well as contributing to the wider multidisciplinary team, attending weekly meetings, face to face contact with service users, both in community and inpatient locations, and, developing links with external services. Clear and adaptable communication, both verbal and written, risk assessment skills, and contribution to clinical discussion is a vital part of the job.
For more information about this post please contact Kate Williams, ETE Lead on 0208 702 5485 / [email protected].
Person specification
Education and qualification
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 or equivalent experience and/or training
- Training in vocational work, career advice or equivalent experience
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience working in mental health
- Experience supporting people into employment
- Experience of risk management when working with patients
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Effective communication
- Effective time management
- Assessment of vocational needs
- Working within a team/working independently
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Time management / prioritising caseload needs
- Team work skills
- Effective communication
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate Williams
- Job title
- Vocational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 5485
- Additional information
Kate Williams, ETE Lead on 0208 702 5485 / [email protected].
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