Job overview

The post holder will be part of the ongoing pilot project, commissioned until 2027 working within a multi-disciplinary team to support young people 16-25 affected by serious youth violence and homelessness. This role is part of the North Central London Vanguard commissioned by NHS England to develop a new model of care. The team is made up of Clinical Psychologists, Specialist Caseworkers and Therapeutic Practitioners. The team deliver accessible evidence-based and holistic mental health interventions in environments where young people feel in control and safe, including a community youth homelessness charity hub where this role is based. The post holder will hold a central role in providing assessments and adapted evidence based psychological interventions within one of our partnership community-based settings, the New Horizons Youth Centre hub. The role involves developing the psychology drop-in clinic project within the service, which is currently running to support the NHYC Youth Offending Pathways Team (NHYC YOP). This will require working closely with the NHYC YOP and NCL Vanguard teams, and multi-agency professionals to improve emotional and holistic well-being outcomes for young people affected by homelessness and serious youth violence. 

Main duties of the job

This role focuses on supporting young people who find it hard to trust services, offering holistic practical and emotional intervention and engaging with the NHYC team and wider network to improve their wellbeing and increase access to housing options.  The role will also include offering advice, consultation, training, supervision and team reflective spaces to staff within NHYC YOP team and wider youth hub, as well as organisations external to the service. The post holder will contribute to providing clinical leadership across the NCL Vanguard Service, working closely with all team members in ensuring the delivery of highly innovative and adaptive evidence-based care. Alongside individual clinical work, the service works across multiple levels, seeking to shift how the wider system perceives and works with young people, hoping to address inequalities to create sustainable change. Embracing new ways of working will be key, as the model constantly evolves to respond to the needs and aspirations of young people it serves. As this is a pilot project, a core aspect of the role will be utilising research skills for data collection, audit, policy, service development and evaluation and wider research in order to evaluate the service and provide evidence for further service development and broader systemic change. 

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.