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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people.  We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services. 

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored.  Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.  

Job overview

This is an opportunity for 2  motivated and enthusiastic candidates to be Band 7 Ward Managers and become part of a dynamic inpatient forensic service  within the North London Forensic Service (NLFS). The NLFS is a provider of forensic mental health services to the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Barnet, and Enfield & Haringey. There are 12 inpatients wards, medium and low security with 1 female ward. There is also a well-established Community forensic team which offers an important and efficient component of the safe pathway from medium and low secure care into the community. The service provides diverse training opportunities, both clinical and managerial, and has a strong culture of inclusive leadership and user engagement as well as fantastic training and development opportunities. The candidate would join a dynamic and experienced nursing leadership team within an CQC-rated outstanding service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced mental health or learning disability nurse to provide managerial and clinical leadership to inpatient service ward. The successful post holder will manage a secure ward, leading a diverse team of nurses and healthcare assistants as well as being a senior member of multidisciplinary teams. The post holder will be largely based within the Haringey forensic outreach but will also carry cases from other teams of the forensic community service.

Working for our organisation

BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare  services. We are one of the largest employers in North London delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. In Enfield, we provide a full range of child and adult community health services, which over the last few years has been integrating with its mental health services to provide better and more holistic care.

BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which is the lead provider of forensic mental health services; that managed the devolved New Models of care budget, it delivers MH care across some of the prisons, and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury. We are rated as 'Outstanding' by the CQC. We also provide one of the largest eating disorder services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.