Job summary
- Main area
- Services for Ageing and Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (Thursday and Friday 9am - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0063-A
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 1st Floor, The Peckwater Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist
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 recruiting a 0.4 WTE Clinical Specialist Nurse to work as the Clinical Specialist in the Camden Care Home Liaison Team.
The Camden Care Home Liaison Team provides specialist care and treatment for a caselaod of older adult who are living in residential care to support their wellbeing and quality of life.
If you are a nurse who has experience of working with older adults and supporting service users who often have complex needs including significant physical health care comorbidities we would be very keen to hear from you.
Before submitting your application, please ensure you have the correct right to work. Guidance on if this post will be eligible for a sponsorship can be found here Skilled Worker visa: If you work in healthcare or education - GOV.UK
Main duties of the job
By working in a multidisciplinary Care Home Liaison you will develop strong leadership and dynamic risk assessment & clinical management skills . You will contribute to the effective management of service users across a shared caseload and formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with acute functional mental health problems and/or dementia.
You will provide direct care to service users with acute mental health problems who are living in residential care, work closely with care home staff and ensure that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to governance and audit within the team, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team.
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:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties of the Job
- Coordinate the day to day running of the Care Home Liaison Team alongside other members of the MDT
- Complete triages and assessments for service users who are referred to our service, meeting the physical, psychological, social and cultural needs of the individual and their family.
- Work with care home providers to meet the needs of older adult residential care home residents in Camden.
- Review service users in line with the agreed care plan and carry out anti-psychotic reviews of service users prescribed antipsychotic medication for the management of Behavioural Problems Secondary to Dementia (BPSD).
- Apply specialist clinical knowledge and experience to provide education for care home staff to develop a greater understanding of the mental health condition of their residents and support them to work in a client centred way.
Person specification
Qualifications/Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio
- Valid NMC registration.
- Experience in clinical setting.
- Experience of working in older adults’ mental health services
Desirable criteria
- Experience in working in mental Health settings
- Experience of working with older adults with complex mental and physical health needs who require 24-hour care.
- Degree/Diploma holder
- Experience of leading a clinical team
- Experience of supervising and managing staff
- Current Level 1 Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults certificates or willingness to undertake Level 2 Safeguarding Children or Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults certificate.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of MDT working
- Knowledge & understanding of safeguarding issues, as well ethical & legal considerations in relations to competency, consent and the legal frameworks of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007), Mental Capacity Act (2005) and Care Act (2014).
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of current Mental Health legislation and its application / use in practice relevant to older adults with significant needs related to mental health and physical frailty
- Understanding by the post holder of their responsibilities under the Clinical & Information Governance, Risk Assessment and relevant legislation
- Knowledge of raising any safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children services concerns.
- To demonstrate an understanding of the management of the physical health needs of older adults with mental issues
- Demonstrable an understanding of utilising a variety of assessment tools currently used in practice to determine risk and assess and plan care needs
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse and present complex information to professional colleagues.
- The ability to gather all necessary information to assist in the risk assessment processes.
- Ability to complete thorough mental health assessments with comprehensive documentation and clear management plan.
- Ability to undertake risk assessments, identify changes in patterns of risk behaviour, and implement appropriate amendments to care plans as necessary.
- Able to work autonomously and use own initiative.
- Excellent team player
- Active Listening & Communication skills both written & verbal.
- Ability to inspire confidence in service users, carers, colleagues, and junior staff.
- Ability to prioritise workload based on risks & urgency
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Must have personal integrity and be a good role model
- Enthusiastic about collaborative working with other disciplines and acute colleagues.
- Demonstrate openness to flexible working practices.
- To be supportive to colleagues experiencing stressful situations.
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates recognition and appreciation of individual differences and diversity, ensuring that no individual is discriminated against based on these distinctions.
- Demonstrates a genuine interest in working with client groups within community settings, recognising the importance of active engagement in fostering inclusivity and unity among diverse populations.
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
- Stephen Godfrey
- Job title
- Interim Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087023022
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Candi & Tavi
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