Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing & Midwifery, Social Worker, AHP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0599-A
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Ann's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inclusive of outer HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Intensive Outreach Clinician
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/
As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.
We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.
Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.
North London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.
Job overview
This job description is written as an indication of the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required to fulfil the needs of specific areas and client groups. It is not intended as a fully descriptive list and does not include specific skills or therapeutic interventions that may be required of the specialist service area. The post holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by the Service Manager, which are appropriate to the grade.
The service aims are:
· To offer early assessment, diagnosis and treatment of service users who meet the criteria for Assertive Community Treatment.
· To offer person centred, individual, culturally sensitive care, with an emphasis on increasing stability, skill development and developing social roles.
· To work within a Trauma Informed Approach and to recognise that service users requiring Assertive Community Treatment may have experienced trauma in their lives.
· To work collaboratively as part of the Core Team in providing support and care for service users who have difficulties engaging with treatment.
· To maximise both symptomatic and social recovery for service users who meet the criteria for Assertive Community Treatment through effective engagement with service users.
· To proactively identify carers and to provide support and education to carers and involve them as fully as possible in service users' care.
Main duties of the job
1. Key Responsibilities
· To provide pathway leadership, ensuring that there is effective coordination between staff and disciplines working within the pathway.
· To ensure that service users experience timely high-quality holistic wrap around support appropriate to their needs within the pathway.
· To ensure that the pathway is well connected to partners and services within the community and this fully integrated within the pathway offer.
· To ensure that the pathway works with the single point of access and other interfaces to ensure that transition in and out of the pathway is supportive and focuses on holistic needs.
· To ensure that service provided within the pathway is recorded using agreed tools.
· To ensure that there are effective mechanisms in place to ensure that agreed data is captured to measure both the quality and effective delivery of the service.
· To oversee governance and quality processes within the pathway.
· To provide supervision to pathway staff as agreed with the Service Manager.
· To ensure effective internal and external communication processes are in place within the pathway.
· To ensure that the pathway integrates effectively with the team and there is pathway representation in relevant team and division meetings and processes.
See Job Description & Person Specification for more information.
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
Clinical Responsibilities:
• To provide leadership to the MDT to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe clinical services.
• To ensure that the physical health care and other holistic needs of service users are assessed by team members
• To work with the Service Manager to deliver Integrated Governance
requirements and be responsible for delivering effective governance within the team. This may include contributing to the writing of policy and procedure documents relating to clinical practice.
• To ensure full compliance of team members with key mechanisms to support clinical delivery including records management, health and social care data entry, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints.
• To ensure that practices are in place that assess, determine, and support
Learning and Development, clinical supervision, managerial supervision and
pathway processes.
• To provide clinical supervision.
• To provide clinical leadership to a busy pathway within a locality working
alongside the other leaders in the team to ensure that we develop and deliver a high-quality service that always has service users at its heart.
• To contribute to the day-to-day running of the service and support the clinical leadership across the locality they work in and Islington as a whole. The focus is on ensuring effective flow, retention of specialisms and supporting patients holistically.
• To lead on complex clinical decision making for referrals and support individuals to navigate through the Locality Teams to receive the right care at the right time via effective joint decision making and regular consultation across the Locality Teams.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification (RMN, OT, SW, other) with current professional registration with relevant body.
- Evidence of mental health training
- Evidence of continued relevant professional development
- Educated to degree level or equivalent gained through experience
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead a team, firm consensus and communicate effectively across disciplines and levels.
- To listen and communicate effectively at all levels
- Demonstrate excellent written communication to enable completion of records, reports etc
- Demonstrate empathy, compassion and patience
- Work in a way which enables service users to obtain/retain responsibility for their decision making, and supports staff in this area
- Able to provide strong leadership for the team and promote good team working
- Able to supervise and appraise staff, including managing performance
- Able to create and support innovative solutions to help empower service users and enable them to live independently
- Able to manage a key working system, ensuring effective assessment of needs and strengths, creation and implementation of support plans
- Able to work unsupervised and manage own time effectively
- Able to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Skilled in managing challenging behaviours with accredited breakaway and de-escalation training.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive clinical experience in a mental health setting
- Ability to support others with complex clinical decision making and lead MDT discussion on this topic.
- Demonstrate high level of flexibility and ability to travel across the boroughs to engage service users in diverse community settings.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate recent experience of working in a primary care setting
- Recent experience in a managerial position
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Understand Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity policies and able to implement these
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems
- Understand Health and Safety issues, including personal safety, working with risks and reporting incidents and accidents
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation and national policies relating to mental health, independent living, protection of vulnerable adults, safeguarding children and housing
- Able to manage with integrity, openness and honesty.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Folasade Omatsuli
- Job title
- Haringey Community Senior Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
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