Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health Team - Core Team
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0379
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southwood Smith Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 Per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro-rata if its part time )
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Specialist
Band 6
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
The South London Mental Health Core Team is a dynamic integrated assessment and intervention team for North London, Islington Division.
This is an exciting time to join the service with the aim of becoming of centre of excellence.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for skilled and dynamic Clinical Specialists with a passion for delivering outstanding patient care, and a commitment to least restrictive practice and acting in the patient’s best interest. You will be required to complete trauma informed psychosocial assessments and develop safe and effective collaborative plans with service users. The service acknowledges that we often see people at their most vulnerable and as such it is essential that we provide, compassionate and trauma informed care.
The service is dynamic and fast paced and the role, therefore, requires resilience, and the ability to work in a joined-up way with Trust services as well as with our acute hospital colleagues.
As a central London service, you will see the complete spectrum of mental health presentations from people with very diverse backgrounds and as such you will need to be someone mindful of cultural differences.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification. You can also contact the Interim Team Manager - Jai Munogee - 0203 317 4850
What we offer-
· You will be supported through bespoke in-house training; the aim of the service is to become a leader in training and research. We also have online monthly teaching sessions on specialist topics delivered by Liaison Consultants and Registrars.
· Development opportunities for clinicians have applied for non-medical prescribing course and AMHP course.
· Regular clinical supervision and reflective practice: Support with complex cases and professional development.
The role covers Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00, except Bank Holidays, with a plan to extend 08:00 to 20:00 hours, Monday to Friday. It might be considered weekends eventually. We are an open and supportive team that adapts well to change and responds to changing staff needs.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Register Mental Health Nurse
Desirable criteria
- Significant post qualifying experience
- Depot Administration
- Tribunal Hearings
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Competent at using software systems (EPR, Excel)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of implementation of service improvement/ QI projects
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates experience in assessing for caring people in a crisis
- Demonstrable experience in assessing risk management
Desirable criteria
- Sound practical experience of patient / service user care and engagement within the wider context of the organisation
- Demonstrate practical experience of supervision within a clinical context
- Demonstrable experience of adaptability to change.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jai Munogee
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Candi & Tavi
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