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Clinical Specialits Community Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 9 months (until 08/06/2026)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working hours are 9-5 Monday to Friday - occasional work out of hours may be required)
Job ref
455-NLFT-0316
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Op Courage, 4th Floor West Wing, St Pancras Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£56,276 - £63,176 Per annum Inclu HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/08/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 7

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 NHS Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service is recruiting a clinical specialist from a nursing or allied health professional background to carry out specialist assessments, deliver veteran-sensitive interventions and advice, and to support a complex caseload. The service, whose London hub is based at St Pancras Hospital, operates in a range of community settings to support consistent access to care and treatment. The post holder will work with a mixture of cases, some requiring at-home visits, some requiring liaison with other Trusts.

Op COURAGE is an NHS-led partnership alongside three Forces-friendly charities, Walking with the Wounded, Stoll and The Ripple Pond. We offer a proactive, mobile, wrap-around treatment service which bolsters existing NHS emergency care and crisis services operating on a 24/7 basis. It aims to offer immediate psychological, social and other stabilization options, to secure longer-term treatment for veterans, to reduce crisis admissions and shorten inpatient stays.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve swift triage of referrals into the service, liaison with referrers, engaging veterans, and then conducting in-depth assessments at the veterans’ location, using a high level of expertise. The post holder will draw up and co-ordinate specialist veteran-specific risk assessments and care plans involving multiple others, including partner agency workers and peers. Liaison with wider NHS, statutory bodies, local authorities and the third sector is key to ensure the appropriate support is in place for veterans and their families.

 

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. 

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

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

  • We Are Kind
  • We Are Respectful
  • We Work Together
  • We Keep Things Simple
  • We Empower
  • We Are Proudly Diverse

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. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will offer psychologically informed case management interventions, including with dual diagnosis and personality disorder. They will also play a key role in supporting veterans’ friends, family and carers.

Case management of complex clinical cases will focus on maximising service users’ recovery and any transition to civilian life and will aim to provide a co-ordinated wrap around service of care. Part of the role will be creating and sustaining good working links with military and charitable organisations in the sector, as well as other NHS/statutory organisations, and experience of working in partnership with existing veterans’ organisations is desirable. 

The post holder will be expected to travel daily across the London region and work core hours 9 to 5pm, and in addition may be required to work flexibly outside these hours depending on service requirements.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Current professional registration for nursing/social work/occupational therapy (e.g. 1st level NMC registration)

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Experience of highly skilled assessment and on-going care coordination/care planning for service users with complex needs, including trauma related mental health problems and substance misuse difficulties.

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Experience of assessing and managing a range of psychiatric difficulties as well as risk to self or to others whether chronic, acute or immediate (face-to-face).

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Experience and understanding of multi-disciplinary team working and of liaison and inter-agency working (working with both statutory and third sector organisations, including veteran-specific agencies).

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Working knowledge and application of Mental Health/Substance Misuse/Social Care legislation/policy and knowledge and experience of safeguarding adults/children

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Ability to engage and work with complex and difficult to engage populations.

Desirable

Desirable criteria
  • Experience serving in the UK armed forces or of working with ex-serving UK Armed Forces

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Carole Feldman
Job title
Clinical Navigation & Development Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07815 654453

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