Community Mental Health Care Practitioner
The closing date is 27 May 2025
Job summary
The post-holder will work as a member of the NLFT Homeless Health Service in partnership between NLFT and all relevant stakeholders.
The post is part of an initiative to improve the quality of care available to rough sleeping population in NCL boroughs through:
o Providing a responsive service that will identify mental and physical health problems.
o Working in collaboration with other services to deliver care and interventions, based on clinical need, at the right time.
o Providing interventions to support people to move off the streets and to facilitate them to sustain a more settled lifestyle.
o Referring service users on to the most appropriate service and to support them until accepted.
o Ensuring that all service users are registered with a GP.
Main duties of the job
- To work within MDT as a member of the NLFT Homeless Health Service.
- To work carrying out health care responsibilities with clients in non traditional settings, including on the streets.
- To be professionally curious
- To liaise with other agencies in planning and assessing care needs.
- Provide formal, on-going clinical supervision and caseload management supervision to junior and less experienced community mental health staff, as directed.
- To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the manager when required. This will include deputising in the absence of the Senior Practitioner.
- To Undertakes risk assessment and assessment of needs level expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people who are street homeless in Barnet Enfield and Haringey, who may find it difficult to access mainstream services.
- To works in partnership with General Practitioners, Consultants, Nursing and Social Care colleagues, outreach teams, Housing related support services to treat service users with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic Mental health conditions and complex needs.
- Refer service users as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations as and when needed.
- Provides and promotes evidence based care in line with appropriate clinical guidelines and works within clinical protocols, professional guidelines and codes of conduct.
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:
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 postholder 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
Details
Date posted
13 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£42,939 to £50,697 a year Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
455-NLFT-0049
Job locations
St Ann's Hopsital
St ann's Hospital
Barnet Enfield Haringey
N15 3TH
Employer details
Employer name
455 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Ann's Hopsital
St ann's Hospital
Barnet Enfield Haringey
N15 3TH
Employer's website
https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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