Job summary
- Main area
- Substance Misuse
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0245
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Better Lives
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Specialist
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
Better Lives is the lead provider in service made up of NLFT NHS and third sector substance misuse agency Waythrough. There is a varied workforce including medical and clinical practitioners, psychologists, recovery practitioners, administrative, data teams and peer mentors. They will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identifying clinical interventions and direct care to service users who will have mental and physical health needs. The post holder would be expected to work across the different Better Lives sites in Islington. We currently have two vacancies - one based at our Grays Inn Road site and the other based at Seven Sisters Road.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will also be responsible for delivering clinics in our community services. They will also undertake management tasks, deputising for the Clinical Leads as required, and will take a lead on developing and maintaining positive working relationships with community services and within primary care.
As a Band 6 nurse, the post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the wider team understands and operates 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, 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.
The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines. Incorporating evidence based best practice and maximising service user’s recovery and re-enablement, whilst ensuring that the service adapts to the demographic needs of our service users.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines. Incorporating evidence based best practice and maximising service user’s recovery and re-enablement, whilst ensuring that the service adapts to the demographic needs of our service users.
The post holder will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental and physical health problems.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nursing Registration (RMN or RGN)
Desirable criteria
- Significant post qualifying experience
- Experience in SMS
- Able to work autonomously
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Competent at using software systems including microsoft applications
Desirable criteria
- Experience of implementation of service improvement/ QI projects
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates experience in assessing individuals using a range of tools and systems
- Demonstrable experience in assessing and managing risk
- Demonstrable experience of providing person centred care in a community setting
Desirable criteria
- Sound practical experience of patient / service user care and engagement within the wider context of the organisation
- Demonstrable experience of adaptability to change.
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
- Iggy Cogoni
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971 792 877
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