Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0114
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lowther Road Integrated Mental Health Hub
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 Per annum Including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being 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
As a Specialist Practitioner working in the Complex Depression Anxiety and Trauma Service (CDAT) you would be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing a holistic service for people with treatment-resistant depression and anxiety disorders. The CDAT team provides on-going assessment of need, multiple problem formulation, psychological treatment and case management. CDAT aims to provide the best quality services, in a framework of mutual co-operation and respect to raise the quality of life for service users and their families and to maximise their potential and increase their life chances. This is an exciting chance to work in a cohesive and dynamic team with multiple learning and professional development opportunities once in post.
Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Practitioner you would undertake MDT and individual assessments and manage an allocated caseload. You would be responsible for formulation and care planning, with input from the wider team and then implementing social, psychological and medical interventions to meet individual need. You would need a Social Work, Nursing or Occupational Therapy qualification. You would need to be a team player, curious, compassionate, willing to learn and take on challenges.
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
Working as a member of the non-psychotic service line based within the CDAT team the post holder will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identified clinical interventions and direct care to service users with complex Depression and Anxiety disorders.
As a Specialist Practitioner the post holder will be responsible for ensuring that they understand and operate to the requirements of the service operational policy and strategy, and that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. They will contribute to governance and audit within the team. The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines, evidence based best practice and to maximise service user’s recovery and re-enablement. They will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific specialist care and treatment plans; providing skilled specialist intervention and care to service users with complex mental health problems.
Main Responsibilities
1) To be responsible for a caseload of service users.
2) To engage with service users in delivering short term interventions and offer longer term, goal-centred interventions through formulating appropriate, specialist care and treatment plans.
3) undertake assessment and review of new referrals.
4) To contribute to MDT discussion and share specialist knowledge within the team.
5) To cover Duty on a rota basis.
6) To develop professional relationships with other key stakeholders in the service users’ network (i.e. Primary Care, Core Teams, Inpatient and Crisis services, Housing, Carers, Employment, Education etc) and interface with these to support the service user, as well as planning for step-down.
Person specification
Shortlisting/essential
Essential criteria
- Registered Social Worker
- Experience working in a specialist capacity with people experiencing Mental Health Difficulties
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Competence in using IT
Essential
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable well-developed interpersonal skills
- Demonstrable ability to adapt to change
- Able to work autonomously and to deputise for senior staff in a variety of roles when required to do so.
- Ability to maintain boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Demonstrate an ability to liaise with other agencies and carers involved.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge and experience in relation to factors that cause mental illness or addictions together with evidence based best practice.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the Mental Health legislation or legislation relevant to substance misuse services, its application and use in practice.
- Demonstrate an understanding of risk together with an ability to evaluate and contain risk with reference to the individual, staff and carers.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with complex mental health and/or substance misuse problems
- Ability to work as part of a team and be respectful of and prepared to support colleagues when needed.
- Willingness to learn, professional curiosity and motivation to continue professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of further post-registration relevant training
- Practice educator qualification
- Demonstrable skill of implementing change processes
Desirable
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with People who have Complex Depression and Anxiety Disorders
- Post-qualification training, i.e. AMHP, BIA, CBT, SCM
- Experience of managing 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
- Helen Middup
- Job title
- Operational Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07810291417
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Candi & Tavi
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