North London NHS Foundation Trust

Intensive Outreach Clinician

The closing date is 13 January 2026

Job summary

We are looking to recruit 3 Band 6 Intensive Outreach Clinicians between Enfield South Integrated South Core CMHT & Enfield North Integrated Core CMHT.

The Post holder will work as a member of the Intensive Outreach Pathway within a multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Core Team.

The post holder will be responsible for working to the requirements of the service operational policy and strategy to provide safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care, delivered in a timely manner to service users.

The post holder 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 post holder will formulate co-produced Dialog + Care plans, providing highly skilled specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental health problems, requiring intensive support to ensure sustained engagement.

The post holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by their Team Manager, which are appropriate to the professional competences and experience of the post holder.

Main duties of the job

To work as Intensive Outreach Clinician within the team in the planning, delivery, co-ordination and evaluation of assessments and formulation
To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team including Psychologists Medical professionals and other Allied Professionals to provide optimal
To carry out complex person-centred assessments.
To ensure that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions take into account specific physical, cultural, psychological and spiritual needs of service users.
To assess care needs, devise care programmes, packages of care including Risk assessment, Dialog+ and implement and evaluate these in collaboration with individual service users and their carers.
To support and mentor less experienced staff, support workers and students from related professional backgrounds who are on placement within the team.
To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and expertise as delegated by the Team Manager when required.
To undertake comprehensive intensive outreach monitoring for service users on caseload.

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.

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.

Date posted

30 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£44,485 to £52,521 a year Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

455-NLFT-0559

Job locations

Lucas House

305-309 Fore Street, Edmonton

London

N9 0PD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

Registered Mental Health Practitioner, Professional registration as RNMH/AHP/Occupation Therapist.
Must be currently registered with appropriate professional body
Evidence of on-going CPD in portfolio

Previous Experience

Desirable

Post registration experience of working in a mental health setting.
Experience of multiagency/professional working.
Working experience as RMN in community mental health
Minimum of one year post qualification experience as RMN

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of evidence-based assessments and interventions.
Able to deal with difficult situations e.g. dealing with aggressive and/or emotional patients or carers.

Desirable

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing.
High quality record keeping Risk Assessment and Risk Management skills.

Attributes

Essential

Honest, trustworthy and reliable, friendly, approachable.
Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands and respond accordingly

Desirable

to have a flexible and creative approach to problem solving
Ability to work under pressure while remaining calm and maintaining quality.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

Registered Mental Health Practitioner, Professional registration as RNMH/AHP/Occupation Therapist.
Must be currently registered with appropriate professional body
Evidence of on-going CPD in portfolio

Previous Experience

Desirable

Post registration experience of working in a mental health setting.
Experience of multiagency/professional working.
Working experience as RMN in community mental health
Minimum of one year post qualification experience as RMN

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of evidence-based assessments and interventions.
Able to deal with difficult situations e.g. dealing with aggressive and/or emotional patients or carers.

Desirable

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing.
High quality record keeping Risk Assessment and Risk Management skills.

Attributes

Essential

Honest, trustworthy and reliable, friendly, approachable.
Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands and respond accordingly

Desirable

to have a flexible and creative approach to problem solving
Ability to work under pressure while remaining calm and maintaining quality.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

Lucas House

305-309 Fore Street, Edmonton

London

N9 0PD

Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Lucas House

305-309 Fore Street, Edmonton

London

N9 0PD

Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)