Job summary
- Main area
- Older People Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday 9 am -5pm)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0243
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 9 Blenheim Court
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 Per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Specialist Nurse - Islington CMHT
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 are the Islington Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT), servicing the London Boroughs of Islington, and we are passionate about supporting older adults with mental illness and/or people living with dementia.
We’re seeking to recruit a nurse who shares our passion to strive towards excellence in older people’s mental health and dementia care, with a keen interest in service development and quality improvement and who encourages a workplace based on our Trust’s culture pillars where staff and service users feel safe, valued and are empowered.
Main duties of the job
We are a busy service and caseloads are reflective of this. This requires you to have good organisational skills and an ability to work independently. The role involves visiting service users at home and, therefore, you must be able to get around Islington using Public Transport and/or walking/cycling.
You’ll be able to demonstrate experience in working with older people with severe mental illness and/or dementia, and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You should have an understanding of the wider health and social care system. Being computer literate is a must as you will be using an Electronic Patient Record and MS Word, Teams and other software.
If you have the right values for the North London Foundation Trust you will be supported by a programme of continuous training and development. The position offers opportunities to get involved in Quality Improvement projects and to become champion/lead in specific area relevant to the role.
Working for our organisation
We’re keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us deliver our Trust priorities:
- Early and effective intervention – we offer a range of evidence-based interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Helping people to live well – we use the DIALOGUE+ approach for holistic care planning
- Research and innovation – we promote opportunities for research with our patients and carers
- Keeping our service users, carers and staff safe – we have several QI projects in the service to develop safe and effective ways of working
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a nurse within the Islington CMHT you will be responsible for a caseload of older adults who require secondary mental health care and treatment. You will carry out a range of interventions in collaboration with service users and their families/carers. You will be supported by a multidisciplinary team and work closely with the senior nurse in the team. You will also liaise closely with GPs and other primary care services, secondary health services, voluntary sector organisations, and Adult Social Care.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Current registration with relevant professional body.
- Evidence of further post-registration relevant training /ongoing academic study relevant to area of practice.
- Current Level 2 Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults certificates
- Mentorship or recognised teaching and assessing certificate or willingness to undertake.
- Minimum 2 years post qualifying experience.
Desirable criteria
- Other advanced relevant training i.e. CBT/Dementia Care/Gerontology/Advanced Care Planning etc.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience in a specialist capacity caring for older people with mental health problems and/or dementia in a community care or inpatient setting.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of the needs of older people with mental illness and/or dementia and the opportunities and challenges of caring for them.
- Demonstrate practical experience within a senior role of dealing with the needs of people with complex needs.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge and extensive experience in relation to functional mental health and dementia; treatment, impact and evidence based care.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act legislation, its application and use in practice.
- Demonstrable understanding and experience of professionally specific and generic assessment tools and treatment modalities.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of the needs of informal carers.
- Demonstrate an understanding of risk together with an ability to evaluate and contain risk with reference to the individual, staff and carers.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate practical experience of supervision within a clinical context
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skill.
- Highly motivated and committed to improving quality and services for older people and people living with dementia.
- Able to work autonomously and to deputise for senior staff in a variety of roles when required to do so.
- Able to work as part of and to lead a team.
- Ability to maintain boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers.
- Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches, storing data and retrieving data, producing reports etc.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable skill of implementing change processes.
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
- Jessica Danson
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07818 012743
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Candi & Tavi
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