Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Required to have NMC PIN
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (May be required to work over 24 hour shift pattern depending on ward/team)
- Job ref
- 455-NQN-2025
- Employer
- 455 North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Various sites within NLFT
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum plus Inner/Outer London HCAS dependent on location
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading

Newly Qualified Nurse
Band 5
Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being 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
We currently have an exciting range of vacancies available for newly qualifying nurses across various services within NLFT.
If you are looking for a diverse workforce focused on quality improvement, learning, patient care and staff development in a dynamic organisation, then this is the place to be!
What we offer:
· A Newly Qualified Nurse Preceptorship Programme:
We understand that being a newly qualified practitioner can feel quite daunting and bring challenges. We also recognise that the transition to registered practitioner is exciting and is unique to each person. To help support you we have developed a bespoke preceptorship programme, which includes:
ü Preceptorship support in the workplace
ü Taught sessions
ü Reflection
ü Action learning sets
ü Peer support
ü Provision of a range of learning materials
ü Our preceptorship programme has received the Quality Mark from Capital Nurse.
We are looking for applications from enthusiastic, highly motivated newly qualified nurses with a desire to develop and progress in their careers.
Main duties of the job
Opportunity to Gain Experience in a Wide Range of clinical settings
We employ staff in both inpatient and community settings across a variety of areas including the below and more:
ü Prison Services
ü Learning Disabilities
ü Older People’s Mental Health Services
ü CAMHS
ü Forensic Services
ü PICU Mental Health
ü Mental Health Admissions
ü Psychiatric Liaison
ü Eating Disorders
ü Substance Misuse
ü Learning Disability
ü Primary care
ü Specialist community services including Trauma Services and Veterans Mental Health
Core to the Registered Nurse role is:
- The establishment of therapeutic relationships with service users and carers as core to the role and our interventions
- Assessment, formulation, planning, implementation and evaluation of client care that is based on therapeutic engagement, coproduction, best practice
- An ongoing commitment to responsive, safe and high standard of nursing care.
- Effective partnership working with services users, carers, the multidisciplinary team and a range of external agencies
- A commitment to continuous professional development.
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:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
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We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
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We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
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NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
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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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a mental health setting (as a student for newly qualified staff)
- Identify, initiate and manage effective practice in a patient centred way
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of implementing clinical Policies and Procedures
- Working knowledge of MHA 1983
- Knowledge of the principles of diversity to be applied to clinical and workplace practice in relationships with service users, their relatives and carers and colleagues
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of the personal and clinical needs of individual service users, their relatives and carers
- Ability to effectively run the ward as and when necessary
- To make balanced judgements and decisions
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Pollock
- Job title
- Preceptorship and Standards Development Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07799341739
- Additional information
Grace Asiedu
Practice Education Facilitator
07909445568
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Projects, Sponsorships, Medical and Dental Rotations Pre-Employment Checks
- Telephone
- If you have any queries, please contact NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060
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