Job summary
This job description is written as an indication of the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required to fulfil the needs of specific areas and client groups. It is not intended as a fully descriptive list and does not include specific skills or therapeutic interventions that may be required of the specialist service area. The post holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by the Service Manager, which are appropriate to the grade.
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.
Main duties of the job
1. Key Responsibilities
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.
See Job Description & Person Specification for more information.
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.
- 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
To provide leadership to the MDT to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe clinical services.
To ensure that the physical health care and other holistic needs of service usersare assessed by team members
To work with the Service Manager to deliver Integrated Governancerequirements and be responsible for delivering effective governance within the team. This may include contributing to the writing of policy and procedure documents relating to clinical practice.
To ensure full compliance of team members with key mechanisms to support clinical delivery including records management, health and social care data entry, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints.
To ensure that practices are in place that assess, determine, and supportLearning and Development, clinical supervision, managerial supervision andpathway processes.
To provide clinical supervision.
To provide clinical leadership to a busy pathway within a locality workingalongside the other leaders in the team to ensure that we develop and deliver a high-quality service that always has service users at its heart.
To contribute to the day-to-day running of the service and support the clinical leadership across the locality they work in and Islington as a whole. The focus is on ensuring effective flow, retention of specialisms and supporting patients holistically.
To lead on complex clinical decision making for referrals and support individuals to navigate through the Locality Teams to receive the right care at the right time via effective joint decision making and regular consultation across the Locality Teams.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
To provide leadership to the MDT to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe clinical services.
To ensure that the physical health care and other holistic needs of service usersare assessed by team members
To work with the Service Manager to deliver Integrated Governancerequirements and be responsible for delivering effective governance within the team. This may include contributing to the writing of policy and procedure documents relating to clinical practice.
To ensure full compliance of team members with key mechanisms to support clinical delivery including records management, health and social care data entry, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints.
To ensure that practices are in place that assess, determine, and supportLearning and Development, clinical supervision, managerial supervision andpathway processes.
To provide clinical supervision.
To provide clinical leadership to a busy pathway within a locality workingalongside the other leaders in the team to ensure that we develop and deliver a high-quality service that always has service users at its heart.
To contribute to the day-to-day running of the service and support the clinical leadership across the locality they work in and Islington as a whole. The focus is on ensuring effective flow, retention of specialisms and supporting patients holistically.
To lead on complex clinical decision making for referrals and support individuals to navigate through the Locality Teams to receive the right care at the right time via effective joint decision making and regular consultation across the Locality Teams.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification (RMN, OT, SW, other) with current professional registration with relevant body.
- Evidence of mental health training
- Evidence of continued relevant professional development
- Educated to degree level or equivalent gained through experience
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to lead a team, firm consensus and communicate effectively across disciplines and levels.
- To listen and communicate effectively at all levels
- Demonstrate excellent written communication to enable completion of records, reports etc
- Demonstrate empathy, compassion and patience
- Work in a way which enables service users to obtain/retain responsibility for their decision making, and supports staff in this area
- Able to provide strong leadership for the team and promote good team working
- Able to supervise and appraise staff, including managing performance
- Able to create and support innovative solutions to help empower service users and enable them to live independently
- Able to manage a key working system, ensuring effective assessment of needs and strengths, creation and implementation of support plans
- Able to work unsupervised and manage own time effectively
- Able to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Skilled in managing challenging behaviours with accredited breakaway and de-escalation training.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive clinical experience in a mental health setting
- Ability to support others with complex clinical decision making and lead MDT discussion on this topic.
- Demonstrate high level of flexibility and ability to travel across the boroughs to engage service users in diverse community settings.
Desirable
- Demonstrate recent experience of working in a primary care setting
- Recent experience in a managerial position
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Understand Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity policies and able to implement these
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems
- Understand Health and Safety issues, including personal safety, working with risks and reporting incidents and accidents
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation and national policies relating to mental health, independent living, protection of vulnerable adults, safeguarding children and housing
- Able to manage with integrity, openness and honesty.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification (RMN, OT, SW, other) with current professional registration with relevant body.
- Evidence of mental health training
- Evidence of continued relevant professional development
- Educated to degree level or equivalent gained through experience
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to lead a team, firm consensus and communicate effectively across disciplines and levels.
- To listen and communicate effectively at all levels
- Demonstrate excellent written communication to enable completion of records, reports etc
- Demonstrate empathy, compassion and patience
- Work in a way which enables service users to obtain/retain responsibility for their decision making, and supports staff in this area
- Able to provide strong leadership for the team and promote good team working
- Able to supervise and appraise staff, including managing performance
- Able to create and support innovative solutions to help empower service users and enable them to live independently
- Able to manage a key working system, ensuring effective assessment of needs and strengths, creation and implementation of support plans
- Able to work unsupervised and manage own time effectively
- Able to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Skilled in managing challenging behaviours with accredited breakaway and de-escalation training.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive clinical experience in a mental health setting
- Ability to support others with complex clinical decision making and lead MDT discussion on this topic.
- Demonstrate high level of flexibility and ability to travel across the boroughs to engage service users in diverse community settings.
Desirable
- Demonstrate recent experience of working in a primary care setting
- Recent experience in a managerial position
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Understand Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity policies and able to implement these
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems
- Understand Health and Safety issues, including personal safety, working with risks and reporting incidents and accidents
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation and national policies relating to mental health, independent living, protection of vulnerable adults, safeguarding children and housing
- Able to manage with integrity, openness and honesty.
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
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).
