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Specialist Practitioner
Grade
7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0755
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lowther Road
Town
London
Salary
£58,133 - £65,261 per annum Inclu HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/04/2026 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Practitioner

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

We are looking to employ an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Arts Therapist to work within the Personality Disorder Service provided by Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust.

The Personality Disorder Service is an integrated service, made up of a Community Team (providing adapted Structured Clinical Management), a Therapies Team, and a Liaison Team (working with colleagues in acute, crisis, primary care, and young people’s services). 

This post is located within the Therapies Team, which consists of three treatment streams: Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for Personality Disorder.

Main duties of the job

The main clinical duties involve providing assessment, formulation and treatment to service-users, and offering advice and consultation to those involved in our service-users’ care. This will involve working as a therapist and case manager within a multidisciplinary team delivering individual and group-based interventions.

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:  

  1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
  2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
  3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
  4.  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

·       To assess referred service-users, using clinical interview and formal measures as appropriate.

·       To formulate and deliver psychological therapy and management plans for referred service-users using a range of psychological interventions as appropriate to the service.

·       To provide advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of service-users.

·       To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment of service-users.

·       To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to service-users.

  • ·       To maintain clinical records and administrative systems in-line with Trust policy to support good clinical practice.

 

Person specification

Education/ Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Registered professional
Desirable criteria
  • Training in Mentalisation Based Treatment or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
  • Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in working with people with severe and complex mental health problems, especially patients with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.
  • Demonstrable experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service-users’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan and under supervision.
  • Experience of the psychological assessment of Personality Disorder, including risk.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of teaching and training.
  • Experience of facilitating groups e.g. psycho-education; health promotion; emotional regulation.
  • Ability to demonstrate in depth knowledge of the Mental Health Act 2005, Mental Capacity Act, 2005, Care Act 2014, and 1989 Children Act.
  • Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.

SKills/ Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of and ability to work as part of a multi-professional team as a senior clinician and role model.
  • Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and service-user.
  • Capacity to work collaboratively in a therapeutic and multi-professional environment within and outside the NHS.
Desirable criteria
  • Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Mentalization-Based Treatment or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sophie Colman
Job title
Team Manager, Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 3317 6963

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