About this role
Job summary
The post holder will act as the Senior Clinician within the Intensive Outreach Pathway in the Core Teams. The pathway provides healthcare and treatment to adults experiencing a high level of inpatient admissions, severe and enduring psychosis, who have found it hard to engage with mental health services. The role will focus on the clinical management and effective leadership of the Intensive Outreach Pathway within a Core Team.
The post holder will carry a caseload of the most complex service users in the service, in addition to providing leadership and consultation to other professionals in the team. As such, the post holder will be required to have significant clinical skill and knowledge underpinned by experience, and specialist training / academic study.
Main duties of the job
To provide pathway leadership, ensuring that there is effective coordination between staff and disciplines working within the pathway.
To ensure that service users experience timely high-quality holistic wrap around support appropriate to their needs within the pathway.
To ensure that the pathway is well connected to partners and services within the community and this fully integrated within the pathway offer.
To ensure that the pathway works with the single point of access and other interfaces to ensure that transition in and out of the pathway is supportive and focuses on holistic needs.
To ensure that service provided within the pathway is recorded using agreed tools.
To ensure that there are effective mechanisms in place to ensure that agreed data is captured to measure both the quality and effective delivery of the service.
To oversee governance and quality processes within the pathway.
To provide supervision to pathway staff as agreed with the Service Manager.
To ensure effective internal and external communication processes are in place within the pathway.
To ensure that the pathway integrates effectively with the team and there is pathway representation in relevant team and division meetings and processes.
About us
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:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
The service aims are:
To offer early assessment, diagnosis and treatment of service users who meet the criteria for Assertive Community Treatment.
To offer person centred, individual, culturally sensitive care, with an emphasis on increasing stability, skill development and developing social roles.
To work within a Trauma Informed Approach and to recognise that service users requiring Assertive Community Treatment may have experienced trauma in their lives.
To work collaboratively as part of the Core Team in providing support and care for service users who have difficulties engaging with treatment.
To maximise both symptomatic and social recovery for service users who meet the criteria for Assertive Community Treatment through effective engagement with service users.
To proactively identify carers and to provide support and education to carers and involve them as fully as possible in service users' care.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations Essential
Professional Qualification (RMN, OT, SW, other) with current professional registration with relevant body. Evidence of relevant continued professional development (e.g working with assertive outreach model, psychosis, specific MH interventions such as motivational interviewing)
Experience Essential
Experience in providing strong leadership & promoting good team working Experience in supervising and appraising staff, including managing performance Extensive clinical experience in a mental health setting
Knowledge Essential
Understand Health and Safety issues, including personal safety, working with risks and reporting incidents and accidents
Skills Essential
Ability to support others with complex clinical decision making and lead MDT discussion Managing projects and change
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address Margarete Centre, Regis Road or Daleham Gardens
108 Hampstead Road
London
NW1 2LS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)