Associate Mental Health Worker

North London Mental Health Partnership; Enfield; Vor Ort; GBP 33.000 - 36.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

North London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an Associate Mental Health Worker to join the Older Persons Home Treatment Team in Enfield. The role provides specialist support for service users aged 70+ or with dementia, offering clinical assistance and signposting as part of a crisis care pathway.

You will work on a 7-day rota across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, with direct patient contact, risk assessments and collaborative care planning within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifikationen

• Diploma in Mental Health Practice or NVQ Level 3 or 4 in Mental Health or Degree in relevant subject or Evidence of equivalent extensive experience working with service users with mental health issues

Aufgaben

• Participate and assist in delivering care for service users under the OA HTT.
• Work a 7-day rota across the boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
• Provide direct patient interactions, risk assessment and delivering low‑level psychological interventions.
• Work as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide compassionate, high‑quality care.
• Provide direct face-to-face and telephone support to service users and carers.

Ausbildung

Diploma in Mental Health Practice or NVQ Level 3 or 4 in Mental Health or Degree in relevant subject or Evidence of equivalent extensive experience working with service users with mental health issues

Jobbeschreibung

Search through our current job vacancies across the Trust below.

Main area North Older Adults Home Treatment Team Grade NHS AfC: Band 4 Contract Permanent: Post will include working until 08:00-19:00 Monday to Friday and weekend and Bank Holiday working once the team is fully operational Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Once fully operational the team will operate 7 days a week and weekday early evenings) Job ref 455-NLFT-8253357

Site North Older Adults Home Treatment Team Town Enfield Salary £33,262 - £36,027 Per annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 21/10/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT).

As of 1 April 2026, NLFT has formally merged with Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust—marking the start of an exciting new chapter. This is a unique opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation at a time of transformation, where we are strengthening access to mental health services, responding more effectively to complex and specialist needs, and advancing our work in education, research and innovation.

By bringing together our combined expertise, we are building a stronger, more collaborative Trust—one that delivers consistent, high-quality care and improved outcomes for the diverse communities we serve.

At the heart of our approach is The North London Way.

• Working collaboratively at every level, guided by our shared values
• Shaping a positive, inclusive culture where staff and service users thrive
• Empowering our teams with the skills, tools and autonomy to drive meaningful change
• Delivering excellence and continuously improving the quality of care we provide
• Embedding research, innovation and technology across our services
• Taking a trauma-informed approach in everything we do

We are proud to be an inclusive employer that values diversity. We actively welcome applicants from all backgrounds, particularly from our local communities, and are committed to creating opportunities for everyone—including apprentices, veterans and care leavers.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

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We currently have a vacancy for Associate Mental Health Worker to join out new Older Person's Home Treatment Team. This is a new service that has been set up to provide service users who are living in the boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey who are aged 70+ or who have a diagnosis of dementia with specialist support when they areexperiencing a mental health crisis as an alternative to in-patient admission.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for participating and assisting in the delivery of care for service users under the North Boroughs Older Person's Home Treatment Team (OA HTT). This includes supporting carers, families and professionals of those being cared for by theteam.

The post holder will be expected to work a 7-day rota covering the boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. They will carry out a range of clinical support tasks, including direct patient interactions, risk assessment, and delivering low- level psychological interventions, identified aspart of the service user’s care plan.

They will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide excellent, compassionate and sensitive care to people and their social systems.

The post holder will provide direct face to face and telephone support to the service users and carers under the care of the crisis team, or those accessing the service via the call centre.

The post holder will work as a shift‑by‑shift basis by senior members of staff coordinating the shift.

The focus of the role will be that of supporting people aged 70+ in acute mental crisis, supporting carers and families in the same context, providing clinical assistance to registered and medical staff in order to ensure safe provision of care.

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.

• 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

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

• Actively participating in the delivery of care to service users in need of intensive home treatment support, as well as their family/carers as per the plan of care determined by the multidisciplinary team.
• Encouraging service users to engage in their individual programme of care and support and with their consent, where appropriate, seek the cooperation of friends / relatives / carers.
• To undertake and assist in the review of service users in mental crisis to include:
  • Signposting service users and family carers;
  • Actively linking service users and family carers in with local and/or national services;
  • Referring service users and family carers to statutory and third sector organisations;
  • Recording any changes in physical and mental health and reporting these to a more senior member of staff, acting appropriately on the advice given;
  • Providing appropriate information to service users and family carers relating to health promotion and their well‑being.
  • Supporting implementation and planning of care with support and guidance from the multi-disciplinary team
• To support other members of the team in the care planning process through initial data and information collection, arranging reports, liaising with primary and secondary care, discussion and direct service user support.
• To undertake planned discharges of service users of the Older Adults HTT, with guidance from the multi‑disciplinary team, specifically senior staff members (to include Band 6 Clinical Specialists, Band 7 Team Manager and medical staff). To take part in psychological interventions or psycho‑education as per individual plans of care under the supervision registered staff.
• To be aware of and assist in meeting the psychological, social, physical, recreational and spiritual needs of all service users. To recognise and value service users as individuals, recognising the importance of maintaining the service user’s dignity at all times.
• To ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity that is supportive of service users and their carers.
• Contributes towards the ongoing quality of service and care and to identify any risk issues in relation to the service users’ health and social care. Informing the registered practitioner / team / person in charge if there are:
• To recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in line with Trust policies.
• To undertake and assist in the organisation of the day‑to‑day smooth running of the service, reporting in a timely manner any issues relating to the fabric or condition of the clinical environment.
• To understand and follow the Trust risk assessment policy, including being aware of the need to follow all safeguarding procedures being aware of the necessity to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults at all times when working with service users.
• To develop and maintain relationships with partner organisations and local and national organisations relevant to service user and family carers.
• To have an awareness and understanding of the Mental Capacity Act (2005).
• To actively contribute to clinical or governance reviews of the teams activity and the monitoring of performance. Contributing to relevant audit practice development on research activity that may be taking place in the work area.
• To contribute as required to reviews of policy and procedures.
• To follow all Trust policy relevant to service user care and own role.
• To be able to work and travel across a geographical area, expected to be mobile to meet the needs of the service and its users.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Mental Health Practice or NVQ Level 3 or 4 in Mental Health or Degree in relevant subject or Evidenece of esquivalent extensive experience working with service users with mental health issues