Job summary
- Main area
- Core Community Mental Health Team
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: The Trust currently provides care and support for service users through community teams operating within an 8 am to 8 pm service framework. Staff may be required to work within these hours to ensure consistent and effective service delivery
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The Trust currently provides care and support for service users through community teams operating within an 8 am to 8 pm service framework. Staff may be required to work within these hours to ensure consistent and effective service delivery)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0151
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Haringey East Core Team. 1st Floor, Lime Building.
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Care Coordinator -Key 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
We currently have a number of opportunities available for experiences Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists to work as (Key Clinicians formerly known as Care Co-ordinators) in several of our new Core Community Teams.
By joining our Mental Health Community Services, you’ll be working with a rich cultural mix of people in an up-and-coming part of London. Haringey is one of London’s liveliest and most diverse neighborhoods, famed for its tremendous selection of restaurants, Haringey is also home to no fewer than 25 Award winning parks.
Recent investment into our Mental Health Community Services allows us to provide a wider range of services that are focused on supporting the recovery of Haringey residents. This includes closer partnership working with the Voluntary Care Sector, Community Occupational Therapy and physical health care. You’ll also be able to develop your expertise and skills by working closely with our integrated treatment pathways.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
1. Carry overall responsibility for the management of a caseload, acting as a care co- ordinator, as defined by the Dialog Plus (Previously -Care Programme Approach (CPA).
2. Deliver effective care and treatment that is carried out within a multidisciplinary framework and in collaboration with other agencies.
3. Involve service users and their carers in planning care that includes all of their individual and diverse needs.
4. Design individual programmes of care collaboratively with patients to maximize self- management and social inclusion and reflect their own goals and aspirations. Review and adjust plans according to changing service user needs.
5. Provide evidence based therapeutic interventions using developed interpersonal skills such as CBT or psycho-education.
6. Provide service users and their carers with clear and intelligible information which will assist them in making informed decisions about their treatment and care.
7. Administer medication, monitor for effects and side-effects, in accordance with
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:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- 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. 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
Main duties of the job
1. Carry overall responsibility for the management of a caseload, acting as a care co- ordinator, as defined by the Dialog Plus (Previously -Care Programme Approach (CPA).
2. Deliver effective care and treatment that is carried out within a multidisciplinary framework and in collaboration with other agencies.
3. Involve service users and their carers in planning care that includes all of their individual and diverse needs.
4. Design individual programmes of care collaboratively with patients to maximize self- management and social inclusion and reflect their own goals and aspirations. Review and adjust plans according to changing service user needs.
5. Provide evidence based therapeutic interventions using developed interpersonal skills such as CBT or psycho-education.
6. Provide service users and their carers with clear and intelligible information which will assist them in making informed decisions about their treatment and care.
7. Administer medication, monitor for effects and side-effects, in accordance with
Person specification
Am experienced Assessor and Care Coordinator
Essential criteria
- • Registered Practitioner – Registered Mental Health/Learning Disabilities Nurse/ State registered Occupational Therapist./ Registered Social Worker • Dip/BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy or Social Work
Desirable criteria
- • Relevant qualification in Psychosocial Interventions with people with severe and enduring mental health problems • Evidence of other further post- registration education and training
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Minimum one year’s post registration experience, some of which will be as working with people with complex mental health problems • Demonstrable experience and knowledge of exercising clinical responsibility for patients’ care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified practitioner and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan and under supervision • Experience of working with people with mental health problems in a therapeutic capacity
Desirable criteria
- • Experience and knowledge of group processes and facilitating groups • Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- • Ability to manage own stress and work in a stressful and unpredictable environment • Ability to work under pressure in acute situations with minimal supervision • Ability to communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to manage own stress and work in a stressful and unpredictable environment • Ability to work under pressure in acute situations with minimal supervision • Ability to communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to manage own stress and work in a stressful and unpredictable environment • Ability to work under pressure in acute situations with minimal supervision • Ability to communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Uzosike
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07827667053
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